Vista64 permission problem

[Steve257]

Help...

I've got a LabView project that was started under XP and LabView 8.2.  Now, I can open it under Vista64 in LabView 8.5, but after making modifications to my VI's, when I close the Project Explorer, and am prompted to save my project, I get  a message "Cannot save project "Smarts-Net.lvproj".  The project already exists and you do not have permission to replace it". 

I've looked at the properties for my .lvproj file, and have set the permissions to Full control for all the Group and user names listed, but still have this problem.  Any ideas on how to get Vista64 to let me save my modified project?

[Kevin_S]

Hi Steve257,

Did you save your project in LabVIEW 8.2 or 8.2.1?  That's an important fact because LabVIEW 8.2.1 is the earliest version of LabVIEW that supports Windows Vista.  This article outlines the earliest drivers and software versions that are fully supported by Windows Vista x86 and x64.

One option might be to open your project in LabVIEW 8.5 on Windows XP and then to save it in that format.  You shouldn't have trouble transferring your project to Windows Vista after that.

If your project was saved in LabVIEW 8.2.1:  You mentioned that you looked at the permissions for your project to see that you have full control.  Do you have full administrator access on your Vista account?

Regards,

Kevin S.

Applications Engineer

National Instruments

[Steve257]

Oops!  I discovered my problem...somehow, I'd gotten the read-only attribute set on my project files!  Maybe I'd copied them to a CD and then back, I don't remember, but once I removed the read-only attribute, everything worked as expected.  Just goes to show you, ALWAYS check the simple things first.

I was looking for an embarassed smiley...

Maybe someone else will find this and not embarass themselves.

[StevenD]

It's probably vista. I had the same problem with an EXE I made. It was set to write to a configuration and I would get errors that I did no have permission to write to it. I don't know how other programs deal with this, but it seems Vista defaults any new folder to read only. Very annonying.