[Paraview] "Could not open file" and "error in error log"

[Birke Heeren]

I put the image into a different folder and then I was able to open it with
the raw file reader. Before the image had been in a subdirectory of a
subdirectory of ... - maybe the path had gotten too long for Paraview to
handle it?
Birke
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> > a) "Could not open file"
> > I am running Paraview on a Windows2000Professional machine and tried to
> > load a raw file with the raw file reader. For testing purposes I opened
> > just one 2D-file (not a stack of 2D-pictures) but instead of the
> > original picture I just got a green square. In addition a red
> > exclamation mark appeared in the lower right corner and by double
> > clicking an error message could be read: "There was a VTK error in file:
> > (...) \vtkImageReader2.cxx (526) Initialize: Could not open file (...)
>
> Either the filename or the pattern must be wrong or the file
> is not accessible on the machine you are running on. My guess
> is that the file pattern is wrong.
>
> > b) "error in error log"
> > It was not possible to highlight and copy the error message. Therefore I
> > choose to use the "save" option instead to create a txt-error-file.
> > Opening this file in a text reader revealed a completely different
> > message:
> > ...
>
> This is a bug. It was saving information about timing instead
> of the error log. I fixed it in our development tree. The fix
> will be in the next release.
>
> -Berk