[Paraview] [EXTERNAL] state file

[denis cohen]

Hi Cory,
Thanks. I look forward to the new version.
Best,
Denis


On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 5:46 AM, Cory Quammen <cory.quammen at kitware.com>
wrote:

> Alan provided the new way to do this that works nicely and relieves you
> from having to clear ParaView's state and reload a state file.
>
> If you do want to clear ParaView's state and reload it with the new files,
> that will be possible in ParaView 5.5. When you load the state file through
> File -> Load State menu item, you will see the "Load State Options" dialog.
> Change the "Load State Data File Options" to "Choose File Names" and click
> on the ... toolbutton to navigate and select the file series. When you
> click OK, the new files will appear in the series.
>
> Cheers,
> Cory
>
> On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 6:48 PM, Scott, W Alan <wascott at sandia.gov> wrote:
>
>> OK, I think I figured this one out.  Thanks for the example, that helped.
>>
>>
>>
>> When you load the state file, it will load exactly what was saved.  There
>> is now an option in ParaView called File/ Reload Files.  This will give you
>> the option to load only what was in the state file, or “find new files”
>> that belong in this dataset.  Click “Find new files”.  Note also that the
>> time counter is 0 based – thus, there are now three timesteps, 0, 1 and 2
>> (with the maxium being time step 2).
>>
>>
>>
>> So, I believe this is not a bug, but rather an issue with somewhat
>> modified features.
>>
>>
>>
>> Alan
>>
>>
>>
>> *From: *denis cohen <denis.cohen at gmail.com>
>> *Date: *Friday, March 23, 2018 at 3:05 PM
>>
>> *To: *W Scott <wascott at sandia.gov>
>> *Cc: *"paraview at public.kitware.com" <paraview at public.kitware.com>
>> *Subject: *Re: [EXTERNAL] [Paraview] state file
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi Alan,
>>
>> Earlier 4.x.x versions of Paraview were able to read the number of vtu
>> files in the directory whether 2 or 1000 with the same pvsm file.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Denis
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 9:14 PM, Scott, W Alan <wascott at sandia.gov>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks Denis.
>>
>>
>>
>> I was able to open this state file up with 5.4.1, and 5.5.0-rc3.  Both
>> act the same – they only read two timesteps.  What version of ParaView
>> actually read the three pvtu filesets?
>>
>>
>>
>> Alan
>>
>>
>>
>> *From: *denis cohen <denis.cohen at gmail.com>
>> *Date: *Monday, March 19, 2018 at 4:49 AM
>> *To: *W Scott <wascott at sandia.gov>
>> *Cc: *"paraview at public.kitware.com" <paraview at public.kitware.com>
>> *Subject: *Re: [EXTERNAL] [Paraview] state file
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi Scott,
>>
>> Attach a small data set (sorry could not find smaller). The pvsm file was
>> created when the directory had 2 pvtu. The directory has now 3 pvtu files.
>>
>> Still after loading the pvsm file I don't have the 3 pvtu files in
>> paraview .
>>
>> Thanks for your help.
>>
>> Denis
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 12:57 AM, Scott, W Alan <wascott at sandia.gov>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Cory/Utkarsh,
>>
>> If a dataset grows, shouldn’t a state file open the new, whole dataset?
>> Utkarsh, is this an artifact of your work with datasets that live within a
>> directory?  This is a bug, right?
>>
>>
>>
>> Dennis,
>>
>> Do you have a simple dataset, that is open, that I can attach to a bug
>> report, assuming this really is a bug?
>>
>>
>>
>> Alan
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *From: *ParaView <paraview-bounces at public.kitware.com> on behalf of
>> denis cohen <denis.cohen at gmail.com>
>> *Date: *Wednesday, March 14, 2018 at 3:36 AM
>> *To: *"paraview at public.kitware.com" <paraview at public.kitware.com>
>> *Subject: *[EXTERNAL] [Paraview] state file
>>
>>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> In past versions of paraview, opening a pvsm state file that read several
>> pvtu files resulted in paraview opening all the pvtu files in that
>> directory. Now it only opens the ones saved in the pvsm file. This is
>> annoying when the number of files has increased (like during a long time
>> dependent simulation) and when wanting to use the same pvsm state file. Any
>> ways of getting around that?
>>
>> Thank you
>>
>> Denis
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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