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[DL84]

Hi All -

Quick Question...I saw a posting related to this but it was like 8-10 pages worth of responses and I couldn't keep them straight....so down and dirty...

I migrated to 8.5 awhile ago and  have always dealt with the popup when exiting a VI in a round about way if I didn't want to save it.  Options are: 

1)Save

2)Defer Decision

3) Cancel

If I have a project open that I have been editing 3-4 VIs in then I edit another and decide not to save just that one...but I've been working on the others all day and do want to save...The way I interpret this is I can't save without saving them all?  I can "Defer my Decision" but then when I'm done for the day and I want to save my work...I'm afraid it will write over the one I didn't want to change because it was still "in memory"

Is it just aweful wording?  Or is this really the case...basically its all or nothing?

In a nutshell, if I'm working on a VI and I decide I don't want those changes...I want to close it, click that I don't want to save and that be the end of it.  

[CoastalMaineBird]

Working on VIs "all day" without saving is a bad plan.

 You have the option to "Apply Same Action to the remaining N affected items".

If you want to address each item individually, then uncheck that box. 

[nathand]

You might find the revert option in the file menu to be useful in those cases when you're certain you don't want any of the changes you made to one VI.  It will bring your VI back to the last saved state.  Make sure you're reverting the right VI, though, since there's no way to get those changes back if you get it wrong.

[JÞB]

Of course,  the better solution is to work from a source code control library.  Any good SCC providor will permit you to check out only the VI's that you want to change.  At the end of the day check in the VIs you intended to change and cancel checkout of any VIs that should be reverted.  Even then, you can get earlier versions of the code you un-intentionally modified and toss the version you oopsed up.

On the other hand- if you really want code that varies from day to day and machine to machine, you are going about it the right way !

[MattBradley]

This post reminds me of a friend who lost a 10 page term paper in high school.  He was just about to save it for the first time when his dog ran behind the computer and unplugged it.

He never forgot to save anything ever again.