# Load valume issue

**URL:** <https://discourse.slicer.org/t/load-valume-issue/2400>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [March 22, 2018, 1:33pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/load-valume-issue/2400 "2018-03-22T13:33:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![lassoan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/lassoan/32/13_2.png) [@lassoan](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/lassoan)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2018, 4:59am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/load-valume-issue/2400/2 "2018-03-24T04:59:04Z")

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Most likely the problem is that your path contains special characters (`\A` and `\S`, note that `\` is an escape character). You can use any of these syntaxes instead:

- `r‘C:\Anand Work\Sft.nrrd’` =\> `r` prefix specifies raw string, `\` is not interpreted as escape character in these strings
- `‘C:\\Anand Work\\Sft.nrrd’` =\> double backslash encodes backslash
- `‘C:/Anand Work/Sft.nrrd’` =\> forward slashes can be use instead of backslashes

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