Here's a utility VI that I originally wrote for a colleague, but I figured might be useful for a wider audience. If you place this VI in your [LabVIEW]\project folder, you'll now have a Tools > Explore... menu option on VIs. When you select this option on the menu of a VI, it will open the folder containing that VI in Windows Explorer. If the VI resides in an LLB, the LLB Manager will open with that LLB as the current location. It does nothing if you launch it from an Untitled VI, a Project Window, etc. Explore works in LabVIEW 8.5 and later. I had to password-protect it because of some private functionality used to get info on the VI from which the menu action was taken, but at its core, it simply uses System Exec VI to run explorer.exe with a few arguments to open to a specific folder: I hope you find this VI useful! Message Edited by Darren on 05-18-2009 04:01 PM

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Darren's Weekly Nugget 05/18/2009

And just to add a note to the discussion. Marc added to the Mac version of LabVIEW the standard ability to see and move to the entire path hierarchy by right-clicking (control-clicking) the window title bar. This is a standard for the finder and most applications under Mac OS X and was a great feature to add to LV.

It works on either the FP or BD in edit mode and just the BD in run mode. This little touch has made using LV much much nicer. And I don't have to find the tools menu either!

I think it appeared in LV 8.2 (maybe 8.0, all those versions run together).

Cheers!