.LLB file in windows explorer opens as windows folder

[MachinePossible]

Hello everyone,

I have created a .llb file to save multiple methods in one of the LabVIEW classes I created in a project. When I copy this labview class in the project, everything is being copied without any issues. But, when I try opening the .llb file from the newly copied class from Windows explorer, the format of the .llb file is not in LabVIEW .llb format, but in the Windows Folder format. How to convert this into .llb format?

To avoid confusion, image a) is the desired format, but ending up with image b) file format.

a)

b)

Thank you in advance. 🙂

[anasei]

Dear MachinePossible,

The reason for that can be that you are opening in windows explorer. The file format is not changed but the icon is because it is in windows wxplorer. Try opening that file in LabVIEW project.

[tst]

The most likely explanation is that you simply created a folder whose name ends with .llb, rather than an LLB file. In LV, you can select Tools>>LLB Manager to open a browser where you should be able to click the folder and convert it to an LLB file.

Note that not all folders can be converted to LLB files and that it's not necessarily a good idea to this conversion. The LLB format is an old format which has some uses, but also some dangers (for example, if something corrupts the file, you would probably lose all the VIs in the file).