TestStand can't start. Invalid StationGlobals file.

[Heartbeat]

I ran a long sequence of about 4 hours and then the tests passed. When closing TestStand seq editor I received an error which I closed by mistake and now when I try to open TestStand I receive the error on attachment1.

Checking out "C:\ProgramData\National Instruments\TestStand 2017 (64-bit)\Cfg" I see that the file "StationGlobals.ini" is empty and there is no backup. Let's forget about all the parameters and settings that I had save in there. I copied the "StationGlobals.ini" from the 32-bit folder and TS starts normally, ofcourse without any stationGlobals. 

I change  a variable in the stations global once every 10-20 minutes. Reading the same variable is however is done every 1 minute from several different testsockets. 

I'd like to know what may have caused this? 

Window 10 64bit. TestStand 2017 64 bit

[AJost · Accepted solution]

Hi heartbeat,

I need to admit that I have no clue what might have happened and I am afraid that it will be impossible to reconstruct it without the error message.

When talking about changing/reading a variable you are talking about using StationGlobals.Variable in a step or expression, I assume? (i.e. no TS API calls etc.)

If it helps you, I can say that this is nothing which normally happens and is something I haven't seen happening before. My recommendation in your current situation would be to have a backup of the stationglobals ready (best put it into your repository), watch it carefully to see if it happens again and record the error message.

[Heartbeat]

I agree. It is difficult to find out more about the issue without seeing the error message. I still make forum posts so that other users can refer to this in case the same scenario happens to them. 

Tip: In station options, you can enable auto backup generation of the station global file. 

[Mdurt]

I used the Version selector to work on sequence files on an older version of TestStand. Now that I used version selector to switch back to 2017, I get this error.

 I do have multiple versions of TestStand 32b & 64b installed on my PC. 

After clicking OK i get this error

[Anand_Jain]

Hi, 

Can you try to backup and delete your stationglobals file. TestStand will recreate a new one at startup. 

If that works, can you post the old stationglobals file that did not work?

Regards

Anand Jain

NI