Unable to open data with ParaView

ParaView Support
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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.

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But the path something/path_1.1/... where a dot follows underscore does not seem to work on my machine.
path_doesnot_work

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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@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

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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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Hi @wascott and @mwestphal ,

Thanks for all your time help!

I have opened this bug as an issue here. 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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Well done. Bug report is updated. Thanks.
Alan

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