Can't open the .lvproj

[vitalijs.gusevs]

I have saved LabVIEW project using LabVIEW 2019 SP1 duplicate .lvproj file and contents, and on the other PC, I can't open it. The file is being accessed as I can see through Windows settings of the file, there is no error or something it just doesn't open. Attempt to open the separate VIs from this project gets the same response. I can create VI and project from scratch and it opens properly. Has someone dealt with the same kind of thing and could anyone recommend how I could deal with it? Labview versions are completely identical.

[wiebe@CARYA · Accepted solution]

Does the duplicate .lvproj open on the original PC?

Does the original .lvproj open on the 2nd PC?

Duplicating a project is not something that I do a lot. I assume nobody does it a lot, but I might be wrong.

Is LabVIEW idle after the open, or does it hang?

A copy of the folder (from LV or explorer) and a rename of the project (from LV) is almost the same. You get 1 or 2 temp files of the old project that have to be deleted manually.

Without the files, there's not much we can do. We could try to replicate your steps, but that's just a lot of work 🙄...

[vitalijs.gusevs]

I can't pass the files because of NDA, but this is a large project containing 10 chassis configs and a load of different VIs in different folders of the PC. Duplicating the project seemed right in this situation to me as I had an enormous file tree and it could be easier to duplicate the project in order to later copy prepared folders to another PC. LaVIEW doesn't hang, other VIs open correctly, just VIs belonging to that particular project doesn't open.I am not getting any errors opening those VIs or .lvproj file, I just couldn't open them, LabVIEW launches but remains on the starting page.

I have actually kind of solved it by hard copying files from one PC to another without copying the project through LabVIEW.

[wiebe@CARYA]

This is how we all (well, a lot of us) do it:

Setup SCC (Git, Github, SVN).

Create a repository (on a local server or online).

Add files to the repo on PC A.

Check out files from the repo on PC B.

Of course this has the same effect as far as copying the files goes. But SCC has so many benefits, it's became the standard.

The source tree has to be an actual tree for this to work. That is, all files that are project files should live in the project folder (or subfolder).

I'm not sure what your problem could be. I'd expect LV to hang while looking for something, to give some sort or error or to succeed... I haven't seen this silent treatment.

Do you open the project by double clicking it in explorer, or by opening LabVIEW and then opening the project?