Broken Arrow makes LV crash !!

Hi,
A while ago I excperienced a problem with activation of the broken arrow that made LV to crash.
By simple activating the same functionality by using the menu selection "View->Error List"
I found a work-around that worked fine, for a while.
Now I back to square 1. I can not develop my code anymore.
No help seems to be found.
Does anyone have any idea what to do ?
Regards,
Mikael Ekman

Hi GerdW,
The problem is that there is no (visible) errors in the code.
Without errors it is OK to run the and the arrow is solid.
If I disconnect a wire the broken arrow appear, as it should.
If I activated the LV crashes. That problem make development a hell.
The code is big. Top VI about 3.5 Mb using roughly 50 sub VI.
There has to be a built in problem in the LV.
This problem suddenly appeared after upgrading to LV 8.2.
Regards,
Mikael Ekman

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