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05-18-2019 03:13 PM
I am trying to upgrade my LabVIEW installation from version 2018 SP1 to 2019. It seems to be possible using NI Package Manager only. The installation is in user-selected folder. However, the NI Package Manager did not upgrade it but left the current installation as it is and made a new installation in another (default) folder. So I uninstalled it, tried again with an intention to choose the destination folder manually but I failed. The NI PM does not ask to choose an installation folder. I tried to download the "offline" packge but it works the same way.
How can I force the program to do an upgrade and not a new installation? How can I choose the installation folder? Or is there a standard Windows Installer version available?
I use 64-bit LabVIEW and Windows 7 Professional OS.
Thank you for a help in advance
Miroslav
05-18-2019 05:22 PM
Is 2019 available yet? It is release with NI Week. But officially that starts Monday, May 20.
Do you really want to install 64-bit LabVIEW? Unless you have special requirements needing extra memory, the recommendation continues to be work with 32-bit LabVIEW because that has the fullest set of toolkits available to it.
05-19-2019 02:31 AM
Thank you for the fast response.
I see. I had to reinstall the drivers due to some problems and noticed, that 2019 version is available, so I wanted upgrade LabVIEW first to ensure correct installation of the support files. OK, I will wait a bit.
As for the 64-bit version, I switched to it quite a long time ago; something went better with it that time, I do not remember exactly what. I have never needed the unavailable tools since then so I keep using it...
06-29-2021 08:18 AM
I too am in this same need. In my case it's due to low space on drive "C" (drive "C" is SSD type). So, I rephrase the question - how to change the NI Package Manager installation location and also the applications installed there (I want to install DAQExpress)?
06-29-2021 08:55 AM
Let me try to make sure I understand what you are asking since you did not provide much detail:
Is this correct?
If so:
06-29-2021 09:08 AM
If LabVIEW were a standalone application like a game or something, i would support moving it, but there will be a lot of things that could be looking for it, and maybe some of them have a hardcoded path to it. (Like maybe poorly written programs.)
Safest to let something as complicated as LabVIEW reside in the default folder.