mer is located in this location the PanelView Plus won't find it:īut before you go manually creating these folders you should know of a neat little trick to have them created for you automatically. The trick is, the PVPlus and PVPlus 6 only look in one folder on the USB stick for. In these cases, using a USB memory stick to transfer your program from your development PC to the PanelView Plus can be the quickest and easiest, if not the only way to get your file on the unit.

mer's, however the old Transfer Utility doesn't support the new PVP6)

When you have an old pre-6 version of ViewStudio (and the Transfer Utility,) but a new PVPlus 6 (the PVP6 does support older v3.1-v5.1.

When there's no easy way to get your PC near the PVPlus to connect to it.

When the PVPlus doesn't have an Ethernet Port (some 400 and 600 models).

When the PVPlus doesn't have an IP address assigned.In most cases, you'd typically download the runtime file (.mer) directly to the PVPlus via Ethernet, however there are some occasions when this won't be practical: The ability to transfer Rockwell Software's FactoryTalk View Machine Edition runtime files (.mer) to the PanelView Plus and PanelView Plus 6 using standard USB Memory Stick (aka USB flash drive, USB thumb drive) is a handy feature, if you know how to do it. Update: Check out our most recent article on this subject HERE.

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