LabVIEW VI Comparison Report overwrites VI without warning

[zou]

When creating a report from the compare VI tool, with the name of xxx.vi.xml, the tool overwrites xxx.vi, creates a folder with the same name without warning.

Anyone had this problem before?

LabVIEW 2018 SP1

Windows 10 Pro. 64bit

[Bob_Schor]

Good morning, George.

     I don't understand what you mean by "creating a report from the compare VI tool, with the name of xxx.vi.xml".  Could you provide some (or all) of the LabVIEW code that illustrates what you did to generate your report information? 

     How are you doing the LV Compare?  Where does ".xml" come into the picture?  Can you provide some LabVIEW code (preferably in a "mature" LabVIEW version, such as 2019 or 2021) for us to try to understand where your problem might be arising?  [I once wrote a VI that ran LVCompare for me, but that was more than a decade ago, using some clues I picked up in the LabVIEW Forums, maybe around LabVIEW 10 ...).

Bob Schor

[zou]

Thanks for reply, Bob.

This is edit time problem, not runtime.  No code involved.

To reproduce the problem, create 2 blank VIs and save them.  Manually launch the Compare tool from menu bar, select the 2 VIs for compare.

On the Differences window, click Create Report.  On the popup window, in the Path to Save Report field, select one of the VI path, and append .xml to it.  Click the Save button.

=> the selected VI got overwrite without warning.