is there any patch which can make 8.2 to open Newer Version VI's

[Asad_Tirmizi]

Hello All.

It becomes kind of a embarrasing when everytime some one gives u an 8.5 or 8.6 version VI then u have to make him save it in 8.2 form(That is the version im using). Sometimes it becomes even harder that u save a VI not realizing that its not of the version u r using. and in ur time when u open it up u find its not readable. Is there any patch for licensed users so that VI's of latest versions can be opened up in a previous version ?

[PaulG.]

What do "u" mean a "patch"? It's not like LV is "broken". No. "u" cannot open a VI that was written in a newer version of LV than the version "u" have.

[EduU]

Well you can ask to the people that sent the VI

to save for a previous version in LabVIEW

so it should open in your 8.2 version!

I hope have helped

[LV_Pro]

Unfortunately, the only way to "patch" an earlier version to run newer version vi's is to install the newer version of LabVIEW. If you have maintained the full support Standard Service Program since the purchase of 8.2 then the subsequent versions would have been sent, or if lost, would be available from National Instruments.

[GerdW · Accepted solution]

Hi Asad,

in addition to the comments already given: If you would change your signature to include the LV version you use then everybody else would know in the first place which version to save to...

[Asad_Tirmizi]

When i said a "patch" i meant a file which if added up in the directory of the older version of my labview mite open up the files of a specific newer version.  Maybe "patch" is not the correct word because it relays the message that maybe something is not complete. But then it is the standard vocabulary in my workplace for a file which is not part of the original pack but is added later on for some modification. No reference to Labview being incomplete was intended. Im sorry.

Moreover i get that "u" part Sir. I know ive been posting, using tweets, for some time now and it is definitely not the right thing to do specially in such a forum. I'll be careful in the future while posting. yoU wont See me with these "U's" and "Ur" again . Im sorry for any inconvenience caused.

[RavensFan]

Don't forget to update the "u" in your signature as well. 

[Asad_Tirmizi]

hahahaha .. Well spotted. But i hope this new signature shows the level of my commitment to change. LOL. sorry "Laughed out Loud".