[Paraview] cannot load *.pvs state files from v2.6 in current version of paraview

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

Amy,

ParaView has under went fundamental changes since 2.6 and hence we do
not support importing 2.6 or earlier state files since 3.0.

Utkarsh


On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Amy Bengtson <amykb at umich.edu> wrote:
> Dear paraview list:
>
> I am new to using paraview, and I would appreciate your help with the
> following question. In our group, we have some old state files (*.pvs
> extension) that were created with paraview version 2.6 (according to the
> header of the file). I cannot load these .pvs state files in the current
> version of paraview (3.6.2). If I try to load the *pvs files, I get this
> error: "ERROR: In
> /Users/partyd/Kitware/ParaView-3.6/ParaView3/VTK/IO/vtkXMLParser.cxx, line
> 484 vtkPVXMLParser (0x23506f10): Error parsing XML in stream at line 1,
> column 1, byte index 1: not well-formed (invalid token)
> Root does not exist. Either state file could not be opened or it does not
> contain valid xml"
> If I try to open the *pvs files, I get this error: "A reader for [file name]
> could not be found".
>
> Is there a way to load old state files ( *.pvs made in version 2.6) in the
> current version?
>
> I have searched the mailing list archives and did not find an answer. If the
> documentation for this is already available, please point me in the correct
> direction.
>
> Thanks so much,
>
> Amy Bengtson
> amykb at umich.edu
>
>
>
>
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