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+1 from me as well. I don't hate it so much as I would never allow it to be my sole storage location. It's fine as a tertiary backup.

Easy for Joe may not be so easy for the rest of us.

Yep, years ago in a different job I had a hard drive crash that resulted in many months of lost work. I vowed then that would never happen to me again.

You should have a Hide bit on the confirmation button which is Set at power up. Have logic when pressing the original button to Reset the Hide bit for the confirmation button. Pressing the confirmation button will then Set the Hide condition again.

The suggestion wasn't to solve your problem - it was to help isolate the location of the problem.

No.

The first thing I would do is swap the two 402 modules and see if the problem moves.

The answer will not surprise you.

The V700 is 800x480, lower resolution in the vertical direction, but a much smaller size screen so it appears much sharper. My choice would be determined by how much screen real estate you need and whether the wide screen form factor of the V700 is more suitable to your application. Another consideration is that the V700 has a different Ethernet adapter and can accommodate 8 Ethernet Sockets simultaneously instead of only 4 for the V1210.

Unitronics does not play well with networked drives. Try copying locally first.

Ha! I didn't go into as much detail as you did, but that is exactly what I do. Every file name of mine ends in date plus dash number (today's would be 190320-1). And I always include both the VisiLogic version and filename in an obscure location on the HMI screen. Great minds think alike!

I don't understand this. I have multiple versions of UniLogic on my computer. I can open any version and create a blank project. UniLogic does require the actual identical project file to what is in the PLC in order to go online. Just make sure you have that and the actual version of UniLogic that the file was created with.

Check the top pinned post in this forum.

Also, be aware that 9.8.79 is a Beta version, not the released version of the VisiLogic software. You may encounter minor issues.

Different database (to my knowledge). Has the project file been opened (and saved) by anyone else?

Database 154 is from VisiLogic 9.8.79. Database 153 is from VisiLogic 9.8.65.

You are trying to open a project file that was created in a newer version of VisiLogic. You will need to update your version of VisiLogic.

I've seen far too many posts over the years from people who lost days or weeks of work because of a corrupted project file. It happens with the best of software and the most reliable computers. There is one simple trick you can do to minimize your loss - every so often (I do it at least every day), when you've made sufficient changes that reconstructing them would be painful, save your file with a new name (typically just change a rev number). You will now have multiple copies of your file and if the latest file goes bad, you have an available backup. Further, as you should with every data file you have on your computer, back up to another location (or two!). I back up my data to a thumb drive every time I leave my computer and additionally back up my desktop data to my laptop (and vice-versa) when I use my laptop. Now ask me if I've ever lost any critical data. The answer will not surprise you.

The resolution of the V1210 is 800 x 600. I've always thought the resolution of the Vision PLCs could be improved, especially the V570, which should be 640x480 instead of 320x240, but I've done a lot of work with the V1210 and found it to be adequate.

Thanks, Cara! And thanks, Ausman, for letting us know.

This is great advice for every programmer. I probably overdo it, but I save a different version every day. That way I cannot lose more than one day's work. If it takes me 10 days to complete a project, then there are 10 files on my hard drive. I also back up my files to a thumb drive every time I step away from my computer. Yes, I'm paranoid, but I NEVER lose my work to an unexpected event.

@keklon, why would you use the beta version rather than the released version? @Cara Bereck Levy, this needs to get fixed.

Moved post to the correct forum. You use VisiLogic, not Remote Access to download a program. To answer your question, you can download a program remotely through Ethernet exactly the same way you do locally through Ethernet. All you need is a connection through the internet, whether by port forwarding, VPN, or any other method that gives you a network connection.

@Ausman, I only tried it on 9.8.79 because I didn't want to risk breaking an installation that I use for work. I was able to fix it quickly though because I keep a copy of every VisiLogic installation on another drive. I just deleted the files in the Program Files (x86) folder and copied them back from my backup drive and all was good again.

Sadly, I was not able to open your project either. Are you using VisiLogic version 9.8.79? If so, may I ask why, since the released version is 9.8.65? And, yes, it also corrupted my VisiLogic installation. I recommend sending your project to Unitronics support to see if they can assist in getting it to open.