Can I extract a VI from an .exe build?

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On both Windows and Mac machines files are at least potentially backed up automatically to some degree. If you're on Windows, you can right click a file or folder in Explorer and select "Restore previous versions". These are not guaranteed to exist, but they might.

There was some work done a while back on LAVA to recreate VIs from the machine code in an EXE, but I don't remember the details or where it ended up. It certainly wasn't a full decompiler and it would not get you the original code back.

[LVIEWPQ]

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@santo_13 wrote:

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@LVIEWPQ wrote:

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@GerdW wrote:

Hi LVIEWPQ,

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@LVIEWPQ wrote:
It's not my VI or .exe

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So you want to "hack" someone else's code?

That's considered "illegal" (under certain conditions) in some countries…

Ask the author of that software about the changes made to the software!

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More of the inherited code problems. 

Created a VI > Built exe > modified VI for use elsewhere 

The original VI used to build the exe has been modified and now doesn't produce the same results on the original machine. 

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Wakeup call to standardize your process, documentation and source control. This is an excellent example of what a new engineer has to go through if someone left the org without documenting and storing the source somewhere. 

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Exactly, This is what I am in the process of doing, hence trying to get access to the old VI so that it can be documented properly.