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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DE link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Hello everyone around.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>as a newbie to this list – and a relative beginner with ParaView – I’m glad to have found you, and very relieved by the prospect of possibly getting some help for my present problems with ParaView. Apologies in advance, in case my beginner-questions should turn out to be quite basic.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Most pressing problem is, that my installation (ParaView 3.14.1 64 bit, running on WIN7) is extremely unreliable, when it comes to loading saved states. In fact, that works very rarely. Most of the times, I get error messages similar to this one<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Courier;color:maroon'>ERROR: In ..\..\..\..\src\VTK\IO\vtkXMLParser.cxx, line 483</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Courier;color:maroon'>vtkPVXMLParser (000000000C1412F0): Error parsing XML in stream at line 2149, column 35, byte index 109506: not well-formed (invalid token)</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-paragraph-type:empty;-qt-block-indent:0'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Courier;color:maroon'>Root does not exist. Either state file could not be opened or it does not contain valid xml</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='-qt-paragraph-type:empty;-qt-block-indent:0'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>There is no indication of any problems while working with ParaView or when saving a state. I don’t think I’m using any exotic filters (ENSIGHT-reader, calculator, slices etc.). The crash occurs before I’m asked which data file to read, right after picking a *.pvsm file to load.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>I will now try to work around the problem by tracing my work, but would very much prefer a proper start from a saved state. Any hint on possible solution will be very much appreciated.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Regards<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Chris<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>