# VAPOR crash on M1 Macbook

**URL:** <https://vapor.discourse.group/t/vapor-crash-on-m1-macbook/327>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [September 25, 2023, 2:44am UTC](https://vapor.discourse.group/t/vapor-crash-on-m1-macbook/327 "2023-09-25T02:44:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ziling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ziling](https://vapor.discourse.group/u/Ziling)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2023, 2:44am UTC](https://vapor.discourse.group/t/vapor-crash-on-m1-macbook/327/1 "2023-09-25T02:44:25Z")

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Hi,

I’m trying to create a volume renderer for my water vapor data, but every time I tried to click the volume button, VAPOR would crash. Then I tried every kind of renderer to test, it came out that I only can create image renderer without crashing.  
At first I thought my 924 MB data is too large, then I cut it to 7.2 MB but the same issue happened. And my memory seems good.  
I’m wondering if it is due to my M1 chip or some thing else?

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**Author:** ![pearse](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/vapor.discourse.group/pearse/32/177_2.png) [@pearse](https://vapor.discourse.group/u/pearse)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2023, 5:12pm UTC](https://vapor.discourse.group/t/vapor-crash-on-m1-macbook/327/2 "2023-09-26T17:12:16Z")

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Hi Ziling, could you provide us with the smaller dataset that is causing this issue? Thanks.

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**Author:** ![Ziling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ziling](https://vapor.discourse.group/u/Ziling)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2023, 5:31pm UTC](https://vapor.discourse.group/t/vapor-crash-on-m1-macbook/327/3 "2023-09-26T17:31:23Z")

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Hi Pearse, here is the link [Sign in to your account](https://mcgill-my.sharepoint.com/:u:/g/personal/ziling_liang_mail_mcgill_ca/ESHNWjBDTEVNijnnQrMBDU0BROdtCkW3LVcpsHf-cFS6sQ?e=LS4z8q)  
Thank you so much.

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**Author:** ![pearse](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/vapor.discourse.group/pearse/32/177_2.png) [@pearse](https://vapor.discourse.group/u/pearse)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2023, 6:31pm UTC](https://vapor.discourse.group/t/vapor-crash-on-m1-macbook/327/4 "2023-09-26T18:31:49Z")

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It looks like Vapor is crashing due to the " " character in the “water vapor” variable. I can create new renderers after issuing the following:

```auto
ncrename -v "water vapor","waterVapor" 2013082512_411m_qnc2nccf.nc rename.nc

```

I’ve filed a new issue for this and it should be fixed in our next release.

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**Author:** ![Ziling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ziling](https://vapor.discourse.group/u/Ziling)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2023, 6:56pm UTC](https://vapor.discourse.group/t/vapor-crash-on-m1-macbook/327/5 "2023-09-26T18:56:10Z")

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Thanks! It perfectly solved my problem.