Search Function repeatedly crashes code

[katiel2285]

Every time I go to use the search function in one of my projects, the entire LabVIEW program crashes. I use LabVIEW 21.

I get this error:

[alexderjuengere]

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@katiel2285 wrote:

Every time I go to use the search function

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which one? ctrl+F ?

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[katiel2285]

Yes, ctrl +F, then I type in the term i want to search for, hit enter, and then LabVIEW crashes completely

[alexderjuengere]

does it have an effect when you uncheck the following items via tools>options>search ?

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[katiel2285]

No luck with that either.

[Kyle97330]

This sounds like a problem Darren described in a presentation he did.  

Link to video of the presentation, time stamped to where he talks about it:

https://youtu.be/HKcEYkksW_o?t=1340

Do you by chance have an actor framework PPL loaded in your project like the customer in the video did?  If you don't have that, then maybe something else you have loaded has a similar issue.

If you do this with no project open (just one empty VI) does it still crash?  

[katiel2285]

It is just one project that has this issue- all of my other projects I can use ctrl + F with no problems.

[Kyle97330]

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@katiel2285 wrote:

It is just one project that has this issue- all of my other projects I can use ctrl + F with no problems.

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Sorry, I interpreted "in one of my projects" in the original post to mean "in any one of my projects" instead of "in only one of my projects".

The general failure still sounds like what Darren describes in his video.  Do you have a PPL loaded in that project somewhere, either directly or as a dependency of something?  If so, could you add the PPL or PPLs from that nonworking project to another one that does work and see if the problem follows it?

[alexderjuengere]

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@katiel2285 wrote:

It is just one project that has this issue- all of my other projects I can use ctrl + F with no problems.

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this must be some kind of cache-issue...

does this ctrl+f issue also occur when you make a copy of the "affected" project and use ctrl+f in  the copied project?

guesses:

I would try to force a recompile, clear the object cache, ...

[katiel2285]

Yes, the copied project has the same issue.