Library directory (8.2 ini file/preferences)

[Britoa]

I would like to move the library folders, and I found in the help files the option to change the library directory, but it doesn't show up in the preferences window, and adding anything to labview.ini does nothing.  Is this a problem with the documentation? Or is it just poorly documented?

[TCPlomp]

I think it was possible in 8.0 but I tried it and moved my user.lib...

It sucked, scared a lot of LabVIEW tools software and I have turned it off. (So has done NI).

Is there a reason why you want to do this?

Ton

[Smootastic]

Hi Britoa,

I believe the portion of the help file you are looking says that you can edit the paths that LabVIEW looks in to find the VI's or libraries.  By unchecking the Use Default box in the Paths option, you can add additional directories to look under if you move the libraries.  Why would you need to move them?

[Britoa]

In the help, there is a page titled "Paths Options Page", in that page, it says

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Library Directory—Allows you to modify the absolute pathname to the directory that contains vi.lib and any library directories you supply. The default is the directory that contains the LabVIEW development environment. Modify this directory to change the directory that LabVIEW searches when you click the Search button on the palette toolbar.

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(You can find that page if you click Index in the help and type the title in)

As for the reason, we were looking at some options to unify our libraries directory among several of us, so when using source code control, we wouldn't continually have changes due to recompiles.  But the reason doesn't matter too much, even if our logic was flawed, the documentation is still wrong.

[Smootastic · Accepted solution]

Hi Britoa,

You are correct, the documentation is wrong, and I will report this to have it corrected for the future.  The Library Directory item was available in LV 8.0, but was removed in subsequent releases.  For now, the best method if you are going to move the library files is to include the search path under VI Search Path on the Paths Options Page.  Thanks for finding this out!