Is there a way to get the path to a VIM, that is placed on the block diagram of a VI? Attached is a VI with a VIM, and another VI that is attempting to get the path of VIM that is used. In this case I want C:\Program Files (x86)\National Instruments\...etc. Is there some secret method or function I'm missing? Thanks.

You're almost there. The instance VI has a tag called "_OriginalInstancePath". That should give you what you need.

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Oh yeah that is. I saw a few times when your first method wouldn't work and it needed more hackyness to make it work. I also have seen times when the VIM path didn't appear anywhere in the file. I opened the VI in a hex editor and couldn't find any reference to the missing VIM. But opening it in LabVIEW with the context help would show the expected path. Well I got most of what I wanted out of it and I hope that the feature in 2020 will make this hacky solution unnecessary.

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