Update!

[Doug Norman]

Originally Posted by rsisk

Was this officially announced somewhere? I thought I was paying close attention to the information flood

I'm sure the official email from FIRST has announced this by now. But as Joe Ross mentioned, you would see a message on the Getting Started Window of LabVIEW. It's not uncommon to see this message before the official email. I added this hook to the Getting Started Window, so LabVIEW users get reminded. It pings ni.com once a day for new updates, so you find out about them almost as soon as we post them. One day we aspire to post updates and have the release dates correct too

[Joseph W. Horth]

The updated labVIEW File caused my labVIEW to not work anymore. When I open it up and hit launch it says unable to open resource files and then closes.
What happened and how do I fix it?

[Jon236]

I did the install on 2 laptops.....LV comes up on one, not the other. The same error! 'Unable to open resource files'

[Greg McKaskle]

I updated my copy on the one laptop I have with me and it worked -- meaning I have little to debug with.

John, can you compare the procedure on the two laptops? Do you think it was a difference in the laptop or in the install steps?

Can you easily compare the results? Inside Program Files/National Instruments/LabVIEW 8.6/resource, there should be 95 items according to my installation. Do you see something obviously wrong?

Thanks in advance.
Greg McKaskle

[Jon236]

I copied the entire resource subdirectory over to the afflicted laptop and got a Win7 "Program Has stopped working" with the following details:

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: LabVIEW.exe
Application Version: 8.6.0.4002
Application Timestamp: 4cb70867
Fault Module Name: KERNELBASE.dll
Fault Module Version: 6.1.7600.16385
Fault Module Timestamp: 4a5bdbdf
Exception Code: c06d007e
Exception Offset: 0000b727
OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: cba5
Additional Information 2: cba57985d4dfc600ca12eaab7140e875
Additional Information 3: 7cb7
Additional Information 4: 7cb7f00025d289dc6d0ac96eb597182c

[aeasson]

Do we need to reinstall the Utilities update after the 3.1 LV update?

[Greg McKaskle]

I do not believe so. I simply did the update and my machine seems fine. I can use the wizard to build a new sample, and I see the new examples that were added. I don't have a cRIO at home, so I can't test that part.

I believe the utilities is mostly the vision tools.

Greg McKaskle

[Jon236]

I solved our problem with a complete NI uninstall, followed by reinstalling everything! Worked fine! (whew!)