Password-protected diagrams

[Kevin Rea]

Folks:

If you lose the password for a diagram is there any way to get around it to
recover the source?

Kevin

[Jim_Kring]

I am pretty sure that there is no way of doing this. NI "might" have a way to do it, but they probably won't help you out with this one.

-Jim

[Doug (CapeFl)]

Its called a bad day.
Was the diagram saved without the diagram or just password protected?
If the diagram is still there, you could copy all and paste into a new VI - it would give you a head start on re-doing it. Else, if the diagram was removed, you'll have to start over.
Before code (block diagram) is removed and whenever passwords are involved, there should be a formal procedure about backup files - at least it only happens once - right?
Good Luck with it, Doug

[Ben]

Hi Kevin,

Back in the old days you used to be able to change disk packs in your hard drives. This allowed you to quickly change from one set of data to the next. This was nessesary because you could only put about 512M on a drive.

One of the big draw backs in this scheme was that contamination introduced to the drive while changing packs would lead to head crashes (when the read/write heads came in contact with the media damaging both). Once a drive was crashed, any other pack that was installed was generally trashed as well.

One of the engineers I used to work with realted his adventure from the night before. He recognized a crashed drive and repaired same. Afterwards, he was talking to the customer and watching the system come back up using the backup pack. The two of
them noticed a brown dust ecscaping from the back of the drive.

The customer said "What is that?"

My buddy said "Data".

End of story.

If you have lost enough work, its time to get on the IT people about breaking out the backup tapes.

Ben

[Kevin Rea]

Thanks Folks,

I managed to find a backup I made!

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Best Regards,

Kevin C. Rea
kcrea@lucent.com
"Ben" wrote in message
news:506500000005000000EB370000-993342863000@exchange.ni.com...
> Hi Kevin,
>
> Back in the old days you used to be able to change disk packs in your
> hard drives. This allowed you to quickly change from one set of data
> to the next. This was nessesary because you could only put about 512M
> on a drive.
>
> One of the big draw backs in this scheme was that contamination
> introduced to the drive while changing packs would lead to head
> crashes (when the read/write heads came in contact with the media
> damaging both). Once a drive was crashed, any other pack that was
> installed was generally trashed as well.
>
> One of the eng
ineers I used to work with realted his adventure from
> the night before. He recognized a crashed drive and repaired same.
> Afterwards, he was talking to the customer and watching the system
> come back up using the backup pack. The two of them noticed a brown
> dust ecscaping from the back of the drive.
>
> The customer said "What is that?"
>
> My buddy said "Data".
>
> End of story.
>
> If you have lost enough work, its time to get on the IT people about
> breaking out the backup tapes.
>
> Ben