LabVIEW 2016 - Cannot create installer

[Vince84]

Hi,

I am trying to create an installer for my program, and under additional installers, if I select the NI LabVIEW Runtime 2016 (which I obviously need for the installer) I get the following window:

The problem is that I cannot find the installer for the patch or its location. I think this is my first time distributing software using LabVIEW 2016, so I am not sure if I've had this problem since I updated to 2016, had no issues creating installers with 2014-2015.

[Vince84]

UPDATE:

I checked my records and I created an installer using LabVIEW 2016 in November 2016 (which was before the patch) and it worked w/o issues.

[Vince84]

I tried on a different PC and it builds. I think the problem is that I deleted all the installers inside the "Update Service" folder. I will try to copy the contents back into the folder and see if that fixes the problem.

[Vince84 · Accepted solution]

I fixed this by copying the update installers from my other LabVIEW PC to my main one.

RECOMMENDATION: Do not delete NI update installers, move them to another hard drive or safe network location. You may need them to create installers!

Note than you can change the download location of your NI updates. Useful to change them too (I use a 256 GB SSD for OS, so I don't want 20-30 GB of NI updates there!)