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Should deactivating LV license reset your LabVIEW.ini file?

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Should deactivating LV license reset your LabVIEW.ini file?

‎10-05-2023 08:03 AM

I recently was compiling instructions for someone showing them how to deactivate a LabVIEW license. In the process I deactivated my LV license (so I could take a screen snapshot) and thought it no big deal, since I could just re-activate it afterwards. I later re-activated and when I opened LV all my history of recent projects and recent files were gone. Had I known this would happen, I would have made a copy of the LabVIEW.ini file beforehand. Is this expected behavior? I would have at least expected some sort of warning. I'm currently using NI License Manager 4.6.

^TeraTech.

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‎10-06-2023 05:28 AM - edited ‎10-06-2023 05:35 AM

That's not expected behavior.

 

I'd agree that it's wrong behavior.

 

Are you sure this is what happened? It would be quite easy to mix up versions of LabVIEW, depending on your setup.

 

If it wasn't much work (and non-destructive) I'd test to verify 🙄.

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Re: Should deactivating LV license reset your LabVIEW.ini file?

‎10-13-2023 07:19 AM

Update: the problem was likely caused by a LV repair operation I perform on the same day.

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