Works until I save it.

[BobS52]

Works until I save it. Then when I reopen I get a number of sub-VI are either missing or not executable. All of these are express VI's. Installing 8.0.1 didn't help. Hasn't anyone else seen this? The sub-VI's are not executable because they are missing certain functions that always come from the Express palette. If I replace the sub-vi with another copy and then put the original one back (without changing it), the error goes away. But this happens every time I open the main program.

[Bob_Y.]

Could you post an example?

Have you changed (even inadvertantly) any of the subVIs that the Express VIs use?

Is it limited to a particular Express VI?  If so, which?

Thanks,
Bob Young

[BobS52]

There is a recurring set of VI's that keep showing up but it isn't always the same one. For example, a VI we wrote called "Write" which writes data to a file uses a number of instances of the Express function called Convert to Dynamic Data. When I bring up the main calling VI, even though it had no erros when I saved it, it is broken because the sub-VI "Write is not executable. And when I look at the "Write" Block DIagram, several of the Convert to Dynamic Data functions have been replaced by boxes with question marks. The context help says "Instance 11 22Saved "Write_June_8_1.vi was not found. I can fix this by wiring in new functions and the program will run as designed. But the next time I close it and reopen it, without even shutting doen LabVIEW, it will give me a similar error for sone others functions in either the main program or one of 2 or 3 other sub-vi's.
Other Express VI's I've seen this happen with include  File Dialog and Time Dealy.

[TCPlomp]

There is an option to recompile every VI within a main VI, I *think* you have to click the run arrow while holding the CTRL button, this would force LabVIEW to save these express VI's. I have seen this with the file dialog VI.

Ton