II have trouble opening a library

[Arrington]

I've created a library of files for a particular test station.  Typically, in the past, I could navigate to the library using Explorer, double-click the library name, and work with the individual VIs from there (add or remove Top-Level marks, etc).  Today, I can't do it.  I can navigate to the library, but when I click on it I get an empty Explorer window with the hourglass cursor.

On a second machine I navigated to that library and double-click launched the top-level VI.  On a third machine I navigated to the library -- double-click opened it right up.

Each of those machines has the same version of LabVIEW (7.1); all run on Windows XP (SP2); and all were navigated to the same library (on the network).

Back to my machine, I turned off the "Enable Windows Explorer for LLB Files" option, rebooted, turned the option back on, rebooted again.  Still no success... all I get is the hourglass cursor.

What gives?

Thank you for your help.

-Dan

[Nadim R]

Hi Dan,

If you copy over your library locally to the machine that is giving you the hourglass cursor and you open up the library, are you still getting the cursor?

Regards,

Nadim
Applications Engineering
National Instruments

[Arrington]

Yes, I do still have the hourglass-cursor problem if I copy the library to my local machine.

Thank you for your reply... looking forward to getting this solved.

-Dan

[Nadim R]

Hi Dan,

Is it just this library that you are having problems with or is it reproducible on all libraries that you are trying to open in Windows Explorer?  If it is all libraries, there may be a corruption issue with the Environment settings of LabVIEW on that specific computer.  I would suggest repairing LabVIEW and afterwards, checking the setting again following this KB.  I hope this helps!  Let me know how it goes.


Regards,

Nadim
Applications Engineering
National Instruments

[Arrington]

Sure enough, I have the same trouble with other libraries when trying to open them from this computer.

As repairing LabVIEW goes, is that as simple as dropping the CD in place and walking through the prompts?  I'll try that and see what happens.

I'll keep you posted.

-Dan

[Arrington]

Nope, no luck.  I even uninstalled/reinstalled LabVIEW and still can't open a library through Windows Explorer on this machine.

Discouraging....

[Nadim R]

Hi Dan,

It seems to me that it might be a Windows Explorer issue.  Have you tried repairing Windows?  What version of Windows do you have?  If repairing Windows does not work, can you please call NI and create a service request for this issue.


Regards,

Nadim
Applications Engineering
National Instruments

[Joe_H]

try deleting or renaming the Labview ini file and then repairing LV. I have had to do this before and this is how I fixed it. Even if you uninstall LV the ini file and the LV folder still exist and when you reinstall LV it just goes back into that same folder and when you start LV if it finds an ini file it will not create a new one. Therfore if you delete or rename the old one and install or repair LV you force it to create a new ini file.

You may just try deleting the ini file first and see what happens since you have already done the repair.