# Opening nightly saved segmentation files on stable version

**URL:** <https://discourse.slicer.org/t/opening-nightly-saved-segmentation-files-on-stable-version/10852>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [March 26, 2020, 4:46pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/opening-nightly-saved-segmentation-files-on-stable-version/10852 "2020-03-26T16:46:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Aep93](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/aep93/32/5990_2.png) [@Aep93](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/Aep93)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2020, 4:46pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/opening-nightly-saved-segmentation-files-on-stable-version/10852/1 "2020-03-26T16:46:38Z")

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Hello all,  
I used the slicer nightly version and generated several seg.nrrd files. However, for some reason, I should use the stable version for now. The problem is that the stable version does not completely read the segmentation files I generated in the nightly version. Is there any solution for this?  
Thanks

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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 26, 2020, 7:06pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/opening-nightly-saved-segmentation-files-on-stable-version/10852/2 "2020-03-26T19:06:28Z")

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Slicer preserves backward compatibility (you can load old scenes on a new Slicer version). “Future compatibility” is not feasible because we don’t know what features will be implemented in the future and how.

We do not explicitly disable opening a scene created by a newer version of Slicer, but in general it should not expected to work (for example, not all data can be loaded).

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**Author:** ![Aep93](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/aep93/32/5990_2.png) [@Aep93](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/Aep93)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2020, 7:53pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/opening-nightly-saved-segmentation-files-on-stable-version/10852/3 "2020-03-26T19:53:45Z")

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Thank you very much for your response.

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**Author:** ![brhoom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/brhoom/32/1228_2.png) [@brhoom](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/brhoom)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2020, 2:56pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/opening-nightly-saved-segmentation-files-on-stable-version/10852/4 "2020-06-14T14:56:34Z")

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I had a similar problem. I solved it by loading .seg file as volume then converted it to segmentation.