No VIs showed after opening llb

[Bastian Thomas]

Hello,

I have the followig problem. When I open a certain llb it doesn't show the included VIs.

Does anyone know what causes this problem. I'm using LV8.5

Thanks Bastian

[JK1]

Are there any vi's within that library (check the llb file size)!   it happen only for this llb or for all the llb's present in your system?

Message Edited by JK1 on 09-07-2009 05:32 AM

[Harold_Timmis]

to add to JK1's post,

A empty project is 948 bytes in size

on disk it is 4.00kb

this is in 8.6.1

Message Edited by Harold Timmis on 09-07-2009 06:43 AM

[Bastian Thomas]

The file size is about 5MB. The problem only occurs at this llb. Other llbs still work.

[Harold_Timmis]

Could it possibly become corrupt when transferring the llb?

[Bastian Thomas]

I don't think so. The file is in a certain directory since two month.

Yesterday I still could open the VIs of that llb. I think the file is damaged.

My last back up was one week ago.

[Harold_Timmis]

so the file isn't bad and it is bad.. lol:)

[Dennis_Knutson]

After you restore the backup, remove all of the VIs from the llb and STOP using an llb for development. A single corrupt VI can make the whole llb unreadable. An llb is obsolete. They serve no purpose unless you are doing a distribution.

[aschipfl]

Hello,

I had the same trouble with an LLB file (in LabVIEW 2013). However, I could reproduce the failure:

I wanted to include the VIs of the LLB in the palette menu, so I set a link to the LLB (in the palette editor).

This worked fine (but of course, all the VIs in the new sub-palette were placed in random manner).

As soon as I modified the new sub-palette (for instance, repositioning of a VI), the LLB was corrupted.

Also other modifications (changing sub-palette name, removal of VIs) leaded to a corrupted LLB. So:

NEVER LINK TO AN LLB FILE TO CREATE A SUB-PALETTE; ALWAYS USE A SEPARATE MNU FILE!

I hope, this might help some of you...

Cheers!