Creating Files without a dialog

I am trying to create a "silent" temp file to buffer my data into. I use the open file vi from the file I/O and wire a unique name and start path, set the function to "create" and set the advisory boolean to false but I still get a pop-up dialog box (with all the information passed to the vi). I do not want this dialog to open an the boolean des not seem to make a difference. I am using LV7.0 and windows 2000 (but this has to work on XP as well). Why cant I get rid of the dialog box? The help file for this VI seems to imply that a false value to "advisory?" would solve my problem but it does not.
Paul
Paul Falkenstein
Coleman Technologies Inc.
CLA, CPI, AIA-Vision
Labview 4.0- 2013, RT, Vision, FPGA

You say you wire a name and a start path? You should wire the full path for the file to the "path" input of the open file. If you only give a name and a start path, it acts as "I want to save here, preferably with this filename, but ask the user just in case". You need to give the full path (with name) to let the VI know exactly where you want the file (And how it's called).
See the attached image.
Hope this helps
Shane.
Using LV 6.1 and 8.2.1 on W2k (SP4) and WXP (SP2)
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