Hello All,

George Gatling wrote:
>I am happily working my way through my current project when I suddenly
>realize about half of my application is in C:\Documents and
Settings\...\Temp\
>
>I have no idea how long I have been editing files in a garbage temp 
>folder,
>not to mention which ones are linked to the temp files vs the real files. 
>GRRR!!  Has anyone seen this behavior before?  How does an entire app get 
>copied to temp AND then why does LabVIEW link half to temp and half to
real?

Greg McKaskle wrote:
> I stinks when this happens, and I'm afraid I can't tell you why it 
> definitely found VIs in your temp path.

Rolf Kalbermatter wrote
> What has happened here is that your target drive was full at 
> some point. LabVIEW saves its files into the temp directory 
> before moving them to the real target to prevent corruption 
> of at least the original file due to memory, system or disk 
> space problems. 
> 
> If the target drive is full LabVIEW aborts the save operation 
> but the files saved to the temp directory stay and if you 
> later save the application again, the current temp copies can 
> get the actual linked ones.

I have observed this event on several occasions in LabVIEW 7.0 on Windows
XP, and as far as I can remember, it hasn't happened on other system
configurations.  What happens to me is as follows:

I press <CTRL>+S to save a VI that is open.  LabVIEW pops open an error
message about not having permission to save the file.  The name of the VI
changes to some strange temporary name.  I press <CTRL>+S again and the VI
is saved to the temporary location with the new name.

I am not sure why the file error occurred (I have lots of disk space, which
rules out Rolf's scenario).  However, maybe the file was locked somehow.

Regards,

-Jim


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