Question

I have a Labview project containing several classes and a few VIs associated with each class.

The project and all the associated files are contained in a single directory.

When I duplicate (or even rename !) the project dir, I am able to load it but Labview warns me that several “Conflicts” exist. I wasn’t able to resolve them by myself.
I understand that Labview can get confused if it loads a few identically-named VIs from another folder ; but why do problems appear even when renaming the folder ?
Isn’t there a way to tell Labview to look first in the relative path and load in priority whatever it finds there, without looking elsewhere ?
Why is an operation that is so easy in text-based languages (recursive copy of a folder) so complicated and troublesome in Labview ?

I also tried duplicating the whole hierarchy through “File -> Save”, but this also produced conflicts..

Answer 1

Renaming or copying a whole project usually work, since project’s VIs are specified by paths relative to the project file.

However there are cases where other VIs referencing VIs inside the project folder. In this case you get conflicts, unless you save the project to another location using “Save as” dialog and specify “Duplicate .lvproj file and contents”