I just did an experiement hoping that the Move on Disk would do the job. Nope, it just moves the selected folder to another folder location. And I know of times where this renaming of a folder would be quite helpful.
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The LV project environment really needs to be a lot more transparent with the native OS. I would give the LV Project environment an "A" if it were a little more seamless. I think that would alleviate many of the conflicts I get in the project environment.
PaulG.
LabVIEW versions 5.0 - 2020
“All programmers are optimists” ― Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
Hm, I opened a project. Then I click on a project's folder name like I used to in WindowsExplorer. Wait a second (or two) and you can rename the folder as you could do to a folder in WinExplorer…
Did I miss an important fact here?
Best regards, GerdW
using LV2016/2019/2021 on Win10/11+cRIO, TestStand2016/2019
Were you in the Files view? That isn't working for me. Now in the Items view, you can rename virtual folders that way.
There are only two ways to tell somebody thanks: Kudos and Marked Solutions Unofficial Forum Rules and Guidelines "Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God" - 2 Corinthians 3:5
OK, I'll say it again. STOP Auto-populating your project's virtual folders!
Why would you want to rename one of the OS's Folders from a LabVIEW Development Enviornment? Can you do it from Acrobat? Office? a web browser? Notepad? nope, nope, nope, nope!
BUT, you do have that "Explore..." Right there on top to launch OS-Explorer (Windows Explorer in this case) and engage the resource that owns "folder renaming"
At the risk of sounding harsh, I'll say it anyway. This idea is absurd.
Jeff: The idea may be absurd to you, but it would have quite a lot of value for me. I suspect we probably like different foods too!
The key point here is that LabVIEW relies quite heavily on knowing where files are, and if you close your project, rename some folders, and then reopen your project you are often met with a long list of confused callers.
Why then would you frown upon a tool that allows you to *safely* achieve the same result from within the project itself, thereby eliminating all the "caller confusion"? My guess is that *you* don't rename things... but many of us do!
Anyway, a simple solution would seem to be to allow the Move on Disk function to perform an optional rename. Kudos for that!
