Project Root Not Empty?

[Thoric]

I ventured into DQMH again today, and after installing it fresh into LV2024 64-bit, I opened Project Creation and it stopped me from progressing with the statement "The "Project Root" you specified is not empty. To create a new project, you must specify the path to an empty directory"

Why must the root be empty? I'm trying to create a new LV DQMH project in a Git working directory, which is by it's very nature not going to be empty. I have a .gitignore, and a git subfolder, and I actually have my own folder in there too.

Do I have to create into a temporary location, close LabVIEW, move all the files, then reopen? Is that a safe workaround?

[Darren · Accepted solution]

I think that's a reasonable workaround. Also note that this is a limitation for all project templates/sample projects, not just DQMH. The Create Project dialog requires that the destination folder for any new project be empty.

[Thoric]

Thank you, Darren. You can clearly see how much I use the project creation dialogue myself! I guess I'm still fairly old school in some ways 😉

[joerg.hampel]

We (HSE) have never run into this problem because our repository structure dictates a subfolder /Source for the actual source code. So that is by definition an empty folder.

See https://dokuwiki.hampel-soft.com/code/common/repository-structure

[Thoric]

You might therefore find it ironic that the temporary folder I created became permanent and got renamed as "source" 😂