Large LabVIEW Project Development Techniques

[@ELEKTROGOWK]

How do you clean up a project folder on the HDD from files which are not used by the project anymore? Do you copy the complete project to another place and the unused VIs are not copied and stay in the old folder? Cheers

[@dnatt2]

There are three things I do to help with this situation: 1. Mass compile the project folder (through the Tools menu option, not the Project right-click option). This will find VIs that I have removed from libraries but forgotten to delete on disk. 2. Right-click the top-level project item and choose 'Find Items with No Callers', then sort the results by column to ignore items in Dependencies. 3. Go to the Files view in the project and look for folders that are out of place, i.e. old folders that aren't in use, or folders that are outside the main project folder.

[@sprezzaturarrd]

How do you add a library?

[@dnatt2]

Right-click on My Computer > New > Library.

[@sprezzaturarrd]

@@dnatt2 Thank you! For some embarrassing reason, I couldn't locate it.