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sparkie

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• Feb 18, 2016

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Is there any way to go from a .mer file to a .apa file? I can get the apa file if I need to, but if there is a way to "decompile" myself I would like to.

 

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I think:

In Factory Talk View:

Tools-->Application Manager-->Restore Runtime Application

Then select your .mer file.

Note that I think this will *not* work if the mer was created with the "never allow conversion" box checked.

 

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Yes that is it. From what I have read you need version 8.0 or higher to do this though. I should have searched the forums before I opened my big mouth

 

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Huh, well I didn't know that you couldn't do that before version 8, so you taught me something.

Thanks!

 

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• Feb 18, 2016

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No, the feature to "reconstruct" the project file from a .mer file was added in ver. 5.1. And only if allow conversion is checked.