Re: Error opening file:The file XXX.vi is not a VI. Select Another? Whats wrong?

2004-06-16 Thread shoneill
Check the rights for your user on the computer. Right-click on the file and choose security settings. If you don't have full access, set it to full access, or have the administrator do it for you. I experience this a lot at work with some funny rights on network drives. LabVIEW likes reporting

Re: Error opening file:The file XXX.vi is not a VI. Select Another? Whats wrong?

2004-06-16 Thread chrisger
Hi Adam after converting a vi with a higher texteditor to UNIX - Format i get the same message. i think the vi has been transferred via FTP in ASCII - Mode. well, do it once again, maybe it works ;-) greetings chris

Re: Error opening file:The file XXX.vi is not a VI. Select Another? Whats wrong?

2004-06-16 Thread Adam Shab
I assume that they were saved as LabVIEW 6.0.2 files, since that is the only version on the computer. I could not copy the files over a network to a different computer that has LabVIEW 7 on it, and I don't have an older version of LABVIEW. I am not sure what you mean by dragging something on the

Re: Error opening file:The file XXX.vi is not a VI. Select Another? Whats wrong?

2004-06-16 Thread Adam Shab
If I right click on the file, I don't see any security settings in the properties menu. I appear to have full access to the folder that it is in, but this may be because there are other files that I can access in the folder. Have you worked around this problem any other way? Thanks for your

Re: Error opening file:The file XXX.vi is not a VI. Select Another? Whats wrong?

2004-06-16 Thread shoneill
Right-click and select properties. Then select the tab for security settings. I'm assuming Win2k or WinXP. And there is no workaround as far as I know. Shane.

Re: Error opening file:The file XXX.vi is not a VI. Select Another? Whats wrong?

2004-06-15 Thread altenbach
Anyone can take any file and rename the extension to *.vi. This still does not make it a VI, right? You need to ask the author of the files what they are. There is no other way. Have you tried opening them in notepad to get some clues? (a true VI file typically starts with a few upper case

Re: Error opening file:The file XXX.vi is not a VI. Select Another? Whats wrong?

2004-06-15 Thread Adam Shab
The author of the files is a professional who wrote a program for me a couple of years ago. If I try to open the file in Notepad, I get a Windows ! message that says Access is Denied. I am trying to open the file directly from the LabVIEW startup screen, I am fairly sure that the process I am