"Move on disk" feature crashes LabVIEW

[Michael Aivaliotis]

I screwed up my project with this feature so I think I should warn everyone. I'll be reporting to NI soon. Steps to reproduce:

1. open a blank project
   
2. Create and save 2 blank VI's
   
3. Place them in the following locations:
   

   
   

   
   

4. Right click on the subfolder and select "move on disk"
   

   
   

5. Create a new folder next to the subfolder, navigate into it and select "current folder"
   

   
   

6. Watch LabVIEW go "bye bye"
   

   
   

The fun part is going back into your files on the hard drive and seeing the mess. I spent a while cleaning this up after i did it on a real project.

[Michael Aivaliotis]

Status: Filed with NI support (CAR #4da9pok8)

[orko]

Ack! That's a nasty one... thanks for the warning!

[Jim Kring]

I going to try something radical to see if it catches on...

I have created a new wiki page for this bug, here: Move on disk feature crashes LabVIEW.

The nice thing about the Wiki pages is that you can categorize them. For example, a bug can be a member of both the LabVIEW 8.2 Bug and LabVIEW 8.5 Bug categories. Right now, there is no way to achieve this by having bug's in discussion forums -- it can only be in one forum.

And, wiki pages can have discussions, so we can still have the great discussions around bug reports similar to what we have now.