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Missing VIs from another company's project

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Another company developed a LabVIEW program over 7 years ago, and saved their VIs and other LabVIEW files in a folder that we can access. While the LabVIEW program couldn't be used (for building safety issues and inadequate funding) the hard drives with the LabVIEW installed programs failed. In attempting to recover the LabVIEW projects, it was discovered that there were 7 missing files all in the same location:

 

<My Documents>:\Labview Tools\Ellapsed Time\Ellapsed Time.lvclass

<My Documents>:\Labview Tools\class_averaging\Mean Pt by Pt Class.lvclass

<My Documents>:\Labview Tools\Ellapsed Time\Ellapsed Time.vi

<My Documents>:\Labview Tools\Shared Variable Connection Check.vi

<My Documents>:\Labview Tools\Linear Fit.vi

<My Documents>:\Labview Tools\class_averaging\Mean Pt by Pt.vi

<My Documents>:\Labview Tools\Ellapsed Time\Reset.vi

 

While I think they are the developer's files for several reasons (My Documents folder, Labview capitalized incorrectly, Ellapsed misspelled, etc.), my contractor thinks they are NI files. While some of the files have names that match NI filenames (Linear Fit.vi, Reset.vi) or similar (Mean PtbyPt.vi) the types don't match the missing files, and therefore they create broken wires when replaced with the NI versions.

 

Does anyone recognize these files? Could they be a third party software downloaded through VIPM (I have found some other files that were previously missing from this project this way, but they were all in the Program Files (x86)\National Instruments folder)?

 

Thank you,

Jeff

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Though the file names resemble the LabVIEW inbuilt libraries, a close inspection shows they are not. These are classes whereas the ones that come with LabVIEW are just VIs and the folder 'Labview Tools' do not have the right capitalization.

 

I would guess these files are indeed Developed and not inbuilt.

 

Santhosh
Soliton Technologies

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Thank you, Santosh.

 

I planned to "ACCEPT AS SOLUTION" after letting it ride for awhile to see if anyone else having knowledge of these missing files would post, but alas, no one has. So, I'm assuming there is a silent agreement with your statement (and my assumption) that the files were developed by the LabVIEW developer that created the project. However, when I went to strike the "ACCEPT AS SOLUTION" button, it had vanished.

 

Thanks again.

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