# Unable to open data with ParaView

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/unable-to-open-data-with-paraview/14218
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [March 19, 2024, 10:17am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/unable-to-open-data-with-paraview/14218 "2024-03-19T10:17:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author: ![Rohan](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/f19dbf/32.png) [@Rohan](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Rohan)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2024, 9:02am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/unable-to-open-data-with-paraview/14218/21 "2024-03-22T09:02:07Z")

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Hi @wascott , Thanks for the helpful steps.

I followed them as you instructed (except the `which paraview` part as I you said to use absolute path to run the binary). Well, it worked, and the files were loaded as temporal, which was very surprising to me!

I tried it with the files in my old directory again, after following the steps and the problem still persisted, which meant that it was a probably a directory path issue. I did a small test this morning, to see what works and what does not; I tried the paths `something/path1.1/...`, `something/path1_1/...` and `something/path.1_1/...`, see the screenshot below.

 ![paths_that_work](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/2X/1/1e35c4bed4ad3f0377020a745e288801ae2f9317.png)

But the path `something/path_1.1/...` where a dot follows underscore does not seem to work on my machine.  
 ![path_doesnot_work](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/2X/b/b4574c9a28c7dc686f0f5a88d396118432d69c02.png)

Here the files are not read as temporal. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that in my `vtp` files, I have an underscore followed by a dot.

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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: [March 22, 2024, 11:29am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/unable-to-open-data-with-paraview/14218/22 "2024-03-22T11:29:04Z")

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> [@Rohan](#):
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> path\_1.1

@Rohan you just found a bug!

Thanks for your persistence here, I can confirm that putting the files in a folder named `path_1.1` breaks the time series mechanism in ParaView!

Could you open an issue here ?

[https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/-/issues](https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/-/issues)

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### Author: ![wascott](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/8e8cbc/32.png) [@wascott](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/wascott)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2024, 5:01pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/unable-to-open-data-with-paraview/14218/23 "2024-03-22T17:01:29Z")

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When you open the bug, please put a reference to the issue back here. I will fund fixing it.

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### Author: ![Rohan](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/f19dbf/32.png) [@Rohan](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Rohan)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2024, 9:11pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/unable-to-open-data-with-paraview/14218/24 "2024-03-22T21:11:00Z")

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Hi @wascott and @mwestphal ,

Thanks for all your time help!

I have opened this bug as an issue [here](https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/-/issues/22540). Though this is the first time I am reporting a bug as an open issue for a public software, so my description of it might not be the most helpful. Let me know if any more details need to be included.

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### Author: ![wascott](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/8e8cbc/32.png) [@wascott](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/wascott)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2024, 9:21pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/unable-to-open-data-with-paraview/14218/25 "2024-03-22T21:21:44Z")

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Well done. Bug report is updated. Thanks.  
Alan

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### Author: ![Castelo](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Castelo](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Castelo)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2024, 3:19pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/unable-to-open-data-with-paraview/14218/26 "2024-09-30T15:19:34Z")

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your hints were also useful for me.  
thanks  
best regards  
Castelo

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