Weird LV 7.0 File names on Macintosh

When opening a VI, from the Basics 1 course, a screen appears that it
cannot find a VI named "AI Sample Channel (scaled value).vi"
The required file is found in the 1EASYIO folder, on the computer's
hard drive" but LV shows the file name as "AI Sample Channel (scaled
va.vi"
In view of this inability to associate the truncated file name as being
the same the file "AI Sample Channel (scaled va.vi" is duplicated and
the name of the copy is changed to "AI Sample Channel (scaled
value).vi" .  It appears with the new name when the folder is
reopened.
However LV 7.0 will not recognize the new name, which always appears
normal in the OS directory.  LV, when Open is used shows the file
name as "AI Sample Channel (scal #C7E2.vi"  This hex looking
addition still does not open because LV does not recognize it as the
"AI Sample Channel (scaled value).vi" which appears in the Finder
Directory.
How have others got around this limitation?
Raymond

Raymond,
I found an archived copy of the LabVIEW Basics course manual and CD for LV 6.1.  You said you are mostly trying the demo vi's.  I looked at these vi's but it doesn't look like they use the Traditional DAQ VI's.  Those demo vi's are actually used to simulate the DAQ VI's without HW.  I can see though if you opened one of the VI's that actually uses the driver, the filenames are longer than 32 char.
I think Lynn is on the right track for a workaround.  Are the Traditional DAQ VI's in your LabVIEW palette?  If so, you should easily be able to open the VI, ignore the missing subVI's, and replace them with the VI's in the palette, and resave.  Let us know if reopening the VI after you have saved it with the changes results in any similar behavior. 
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Spex
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