# Show a serie of timesteps

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/show-a-serie-of-timesteps/14563
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [May 6, 2024, 12:05pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/show-a-serie-of-timesteps/14563 "2024-05-06T12:05:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![Vahid](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/vahid/32/14311_2.png) [@Vahid](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Vahid)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2024, 12:05pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/show-a-serie-of-timesteps/14563/1 "2024-05-06T12:05:33Z")

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Hi all,  
I want to show a series of files in Paraview, but when I run it, only one of the time frames is displayed frozen.  
 ![Screenshot 2024-05-06 153237](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/2X/5/5ae6542f72cd5e4743ad3f4ed2dfde1a6f23a373.jpeg)

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### Author: ![mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/mwestphal/32/17_2.png) [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2024, 12:25pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/show-a-serie-of-timesteps/14563/2 "2024-05-06T12:25:22Z")

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You have to open your file as a file series, sadly, file series do not support to have “dots”, you should rename your files without the `.0000` or `.50000`

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### Author: ![Vahid](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/vahid/32/14311_2.png) [@Vahid](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Vahid)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2024, 1:02pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/show-a-serie-of-timesteps/14563/3 "2024-05-06T13:02:20Z")

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Thank you Mathieu