Help saving a newer LabVIEW project for an older version of LabVIEW

[JBC]

Hello, 

I was using LabVIEW CE 2023 back in 2023 and my CE license has now expired.  I have had no luck over the years getting a renewed LabVIEW CE license or a NI wipe and CE re-install to work on my computer. I spent so much time trying to get LV CE to go again that I no longer have a desire to use LV CE and will stick to my perpetual license for LV2021 until I stop working or it stops working. That being said I created a project in 2023 that I would like to re-visit but I cant open it with my trusty LabVIEW 2021 version. Would someone with a LabVIEW version >= 2023  be willing to open this project and save it for compatibility with LV2021?  I have attached the project zip and you can also find it here if github is your thing: https://github.com/dnparadice/LabGRAD/tree/main

Thanks 

-Jay

LabGRAD.zip

[ensegre]

There should be a forum on the dark side for that, but anyway, here you go.

LabGRAD_21.zip

[Bryan]

You can 'renew' your LabVIEW CE license this way if you haven't tried it: 

1. Go to https://www.ni.com
2. Hover over your user icon in the upper right and select "My Account".
3. Scroll down to "Products and Services" and select "View my products".
4. Scroll down to find your LabVIEW Community Edition and select "Renew" from the drop-down menu to the right. 

Apologies if you've already tried this and still had issues.  Maybe someone else will find it useful.

Edited Tuesday at 07:01 PM by Bryan

[JBC]

21 hours ago, Bryan said:

You can 'renew' your LabVIEW CE license this way if you haven't tried it: 

1. Go to https://www.ni.com
2. Hover over your user icon in the upper right and select "My Account".
3. Scroll down to "Products and Services" and select "View my products".
4. Scroll down to find your LabVIEW Community Edition and select "Renew" from the drop-down menu to the right. 

Apologies if you've already tried this and still had issues.  Maybe someone else will find it useful.

@BryanThanks for the info, I tried multiple methods to get CE going again but none worked. This is CE on a MAC (my personal computer) which as far as I can tell is no longer supported. It sucks they force you to update the CE version and will not let you simply use the CE version you have. I have a work windows PC that I have a LV2021 perpetual license for though I have kept CE off that computer since that one is my commercial use dev machine and it works. I dont want NI to update packages (during CE install) on it that break my 2021 dev environment. 

[JBC]

22 hours ago, ensegre said:

There should be a forum on the dark side for that, but anyway, here you go.

LabGRAD_21.zip 560.64 kB · 0 downloads

@ensegreThanks!

Edited yesterday at 04:27 PM by JBC

[Rolf Kalbermatter]

On 2/4/2026 at 5:26 PM, JBC said:

@BryanThanks for the info, I tried multiple methods to get CE going again but none worked. This is CE on a MAC (my personal computer) which as far as I can tell is no longer supported. It sucks they force you to update the CE version and will not let you simply use the CE version you have. I have a work windows PC that I have a LV2021 perpetual license for though I have kept CE off that computer since that one is my commercial use dev machine and it works. I dont want NI to update packages (during CE install) on it that break my 2021 dev environment. 

Actually LabVIEW for Mac OS is again an official thing since 2025 Q3. Community Edition only, can't really buy it as a Professional Version but it's officially downloadable and supported. 2024Q3 and 2025Q1 was only a semi official thing that you had to download from the makerhub website.

https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/LabVIEW_for_macOS

Edited 1 hour ago by Rolf Kalbermatter