Labview dies when saving vi

[hspec]

Hi,

I have a large Labview application (7.1.1) that I am having trouble saving. I was being careful while performing a major modification and saving often. After the last save there was only one error reported, a broken wire. When I remove the broken wire, no errors are reported. When I try to run or save the program, Labview crashes and I get the Windows popup asking if I want to report the crash. I have tried everything I can think of to get rid of this broken wire & save, but nothing works. I made a major change to the code during this editing session, and stand to loose a few hours of work.

Please help!

Howard Spec

CMC Electronics

Canada 

[rsw]

You could try a mass compile, under tools > advanced > mass compile.

Be sure to backup your VI's first on a seperate drive, and then mass compile the VI's you are working with, this may help (it's atleast worth a shot), if not then if you could upload the VI's and I can try it on this system with LV 7.1.1.

Hopefully however the mass compile will fix your problem!

Regards,

[Brian_Beal]

Another thing to try it to open up and save sub-vi's by themselves to isolate the problem. 

[hspec]

Thanks for all the helpfull suggestions. I was able to save the vi after removing the bad wire. I'm still not sure exactly what solved the problem. After trying every method of removing the bad wire, and then saving the code (unsuccessfully),  I started trying to find a way to get the code to run after removing the wire. I turned on Highlight Execution, ran the code and it did not blow. After that I was able to save.  Hopefully I won't see another problem like this for a long while. Makes you realize that saving often is not always going to help. Source control or manual backup should also be used in case you run into a situation like this, and don't have as much luck as me.

Thanks,

Howard