Project Expects nonexistant, uncalled VI

[BertMcMahan]

Possibly a silly idea... but could you make a VI to stick into that spot it's trying to search, so something loads?

Then once it loads, go to the Files view in your Project and select that VI, then Find Callers. Perhaps that will show you what's trying to load it.

Edit: I also use "Why is this item in Dependencies" very frequently and have never had a crash.

[tst]

Rather than looking in the dependencies section, I would suggest going to the Files tab, which can be found right under the toolbar in the project window. There you should be able to navigate to that path to find the VI, if it really is recognized as a dependency, and then right click or select it and press Ctrl+E to switch back to the Items tab and from there look for the callers.

If that doesn't work, then it's certainly possible that Rolf is correct and that the VI is in a disable structure somewhere. If Bert's suggestion of creating a dummy VI which you can open doesn't work, then you might need to actively open all the VIs in the project to make sure everything is actually loaded (the easiest is probably to select all of them in the tree and press Enter, but make sure you don't have anything unsaved first) and then right click the icon of the VI and select Find All Instances.

[JÞB]

And don't forget about the VI Hierarchy View.

[EthanHenry]

I creating a dummy VI in the spot it expects it, but it didn't seem to help :(.  It still asked me to select the file, even though it was sitting right where it was expecting it.  after loading it with these new dummy VIs, I still couldn't find it in the File View, nor could I find it with a ctrl+f search for the VI anywhere in the project.  My only guess is that it may be in a dds, but the project itself is pretty big, so it'll take a bit to search through all the VIs.  Any other ideas that may help narrow down what could be wrong with it?  I greatly appreciate all the suggestions so far!

[BertMcMahan]

If searching doesn't find the weird VI, then perhaps just search for DDS's themselves?