Duplicate all contents doesn't work

[wideofthemark]

Hi,

I have a realatively large project that won't seem to 'duplicate' - ie if you click 'save as' -> Duplicate .lvproj file and all contents, it won't copy anything.  It happily loads everything up, but then when it is complete it hasn't created the folders or anything.

Wondering - is there a problem with large projects - ie if there are too many VIs will it fail?

JP

[altenbach]

What is your LabVIEW version?

I assume you have verified that it works correctly with small projects, right?

[wideofthemark]

Hi,

Thanks for the fast reply.  I'm working with labview 2010 SP1.  It has been working with this project up till very recently.  I had thought that it was a problem with a run time menu file originally - because at first it would try to copy, and then complain after copying the run time menu file that the file was already in the destination(duh!) and collapse.  I removed the references to the menu file, and now it doesn't give the error message - but it also doesn't do anything else.

Oh one other thing i tried(or a sympton which might be causing the problem) - I have some quite long nested directories in it - because there is a set of libaries from a company which needs to be kept with the project - but i can't put it in the instr.lib because there are so many bugs in the company's library i effectively have my own version now!.  I decided to move the whole project to a directory which was just one directly away from the drive's root, and repeat the process.  Strange thing is that now the project won't open at all - it claims the project file is corrupted.

Any thoughts?

[wideofthemark · Accepted solution]

In case this happens to someone else, I managed to bodge it. Basically I copied the whole project to a temporary folder, saved the project file by itself in another place, then opened the project and in the files view of the project dragged all the files to the new folder - therefore getting them all in the right place.  There were a few issues with the new named files - especially in my FPGA vis -which had to be recompiled - but it didn't crash which is good.

JP