duplicate project heirarchy (LabVIEW 2012) - a warning

[DonRoth]

I would like to document an issue with Project, Save As option that can be problematic for folks.

Normally, I just copy a .lvproj file in Windows Explorer, and then modify the contents as needed for the new project after opening in LabVIEW.

However, this time I used the menu option in the LabVIEW Project Explorer in order to perform a project duplication.

When I did this, I selected duplicate .lvproj file and contents from the spawned dialog.  When the new .lvproj file was created, it deleted all of my supplemental files such as icon, rtm, .doc, and .txt files that I had added to the original project.  I say it deleted them because I went to the folder in which they are located and they are now gone, and I could not find them anywhere.  I had a backup of my oriiginal project on my thumb drive so was able to restore the missing files.  Then everything was fine.  Thought that others might want to know and comment about this.

The screen shot below shows the warnings received associated with the now missing files.

[Matt_L]

Hi Don,

Thanks for providing the feedback.  I tried this out, and I wasn't able to reproduce this following the exact steps you gave.  Did this happen when you opened the new copied lvproj, or did you re-open the original one?  It doesn't look like it copies the supplemental files so I'm not sure why yours would have been deleted in this case.

[DonRoth]

The warnings/deletions showed up in both project explorer views when open.

[Matt_L]

Hmm...it makes sense that the warnings would show up in the duplicate project as it doesn't look like those supplementary files get copied, but I'm not sure why they would get removed from the original project too.  Is there anything unusual about the location you were trying to copy to, such as permissions etc.?  Are you able to reproduce this with any other projects at all?  If you can reproduce it and provide more detailed steps on how to do so I'll be sure to look into it further.

[DonRoth]

Nothing unusual that I know of.   When I have a chance, I can try to see if this situation can be repeated....Don