Saving a copy of a project?

[pgrayson]

I spent the weekend loading LabView on my personal computer. After loading the version from FRC, I was not able to see the project that I saved on a thumbdrive from the competition. After loading 2011 from NI, I found that I could see the project, but it was empty. I'm still not sure how to copy a project, but it looks like we were lucky that we didn't lose our laptop like we thought we did for a few minutes at Gull Lake, since the back up copy of our program does not seem to work.  

Any suggestions on how to make a back up copy of our work?

Paul F. Grayson - Head Coach FRC 4398

pgrayson@aimagic.org

http://frc4398.weebly.com

[Kevin_F]

You will want to select Save As from the project window and select duplicate project (and often include dependencies). The project file itself is just an xml file pointing to the different VI's in the project so if you just copy the project file but not the VI's you will end up with an empty project since none of the files it points to are present (I would expect to see all the files still listed but with the yellow triangle saying that the files have been moved on disk)