# tempDICOMDatabase crashes slicer

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**Created:** [October 3, 2022, 12:21am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/tempdicomdatabase-crashes-slicer/25515 "2022-10-03T00:21:00Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 4, 2022, 10:50pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/tempdicomdatabase-crashes-slicer/25515/2 "2022-10-04T22:50:01Z")

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I’ve been messing around trying to debug and I was able to narrow it down to this.  
Using

```auto
DICOMUtils.importDicom(dicomDataDir, slicer.dicomDatabase)

```

on startup work just fine, but the moment I call

```auto
DICOMUtils.loadPatientByUID(slicer.dicomDatabase.patients()[0])

```

slicer crashes.  
I will try to see if using

```auto
scalarVolumeReader = DICOMScalarVolumePlugin.DICOMScalarVolumePluginClass()

```

method from [Loading DICOM files with python script for Mac - #4 by epearlstone](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/loading-dicom-files-with-python-script-for-mac/12855/4)  
would provide a viable solution

~Georgi

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