error code database.vi not working

[drewkr]

I recently installed LabView 8: When attampting to use an express vi or run any of my old vis I run into (after drilling down) that the General Error Handler CORE.vi makes a call using the Error Code Database.vi which is unexecutable as hte library function is not found in the library.  Any idea why this is happening?

[Dennis_Knutson]

You don't provide a lot of details but my guess is that your old VIs are saved in an llb (bad idea) and that when you created the llb, you chose to include VIs from v.lib (even worse idea). Old LabVIEW functions in vi.lib get modified (bug fixes, enhancements, etc.) and that's usually not a problem unless you try to load the old functions with a new release. If you do have an llb with vi.lib functions, make a copy of the llb and then delete everything except the VIs that you wrote from it. Then when you load your application, it will use the NI functions in the new release. You can also open the old top level VI and look at the hierarchy. If you see any VIs that point to an llb or the vi.lib folder in your old version of LabVIEW, go into the VI that calls these, right click on them and do a replace.

[drewkr]

The situation happens even if I start labview, open a new project, open a new vi, insert (for example) 2 waveform sims such as the simulate signal express vi then wire the outputs of those two to the input of the append signals express vi and make the output of the append signals express vi a graph.  The new vi is then unrunnable and drilling down on the error gives me the same informaiton as expressed in the provious post.

[Dennis_Knutson]

If you get this error with a new VI, then that's something I haven't seen. I haven't upgraded yet and my evaluatlion copy has just expired. If you post a VI that shows the error, I'm sure someone else will open it and try to see what the problem is.