Why does Project explorer crash when resolving a Dependency?

[CirrusApps]

Since upgrading from 8.2.1 I have not been able to successfully open my old project.  There are a couple of dependencies that need to be resolved but when I choose the correct path the program crashes with the following message: LabView 8.5 Development System has encountered a problem and needs to close... etc.  The more information button reveals that the labview.exe ver 8.5.0.4002 offset 00f5fef9 was the cause.  I am quite frustrated that an upgrade is giving me all these headaches!

[Neil.Pate]

Welcome to the world of pain that is the misbehaving project!

You may have some success by manually editing the .lvproj file (it is just a text file) and removing the dependencies there (the ones which have the bad linking), then adding them back in if you can get your project stable.

Please make a backup of the .lvproj file and in fact everything!

Even with 8.5 the project file still seems quite fragile. Kid gloves are, in my experience, very necessary.

Good luck with resolving your issues.

[CirrusApps]

I do not believe the problem is with my project manager file.  I was able to open most SUBVIs but about 55 out of a thousand VIs cause labview.exe to crash.  I have noticed that most of the VIs that crash reference a control or indicator on the main front panel, but I was able to move the top level VI to another directory and if I cancel on every VI for which it searches it will open without crashing the environment.  I re-emphasize that this was a perfectly good LV application running under LabView 8.2.1.

[CirrusApps]

Version 8.5.1 seems to have fixed this issue.  I believe the problem was a very large cluster in the design which 8.5 couldn't handle.  Project opens and compiles fine with 8.5.1.