Answers.Body: <p>How did you download the program to the EV3? According to <a href="https://community.lego.com/t5/MINDSTORMS/VM-Program-Validation/m-p/8354382/highlight/true#M25461" rel="nofollow">this post on the Mindstorms forum</a> this can occur if there was a problem sending the program, usually via poor quality Bluetooth adaptors.</p>
  
  <p>You can confirm this if the downloaded program is only a few bytes in size on the Brick.</p>
  
  <p>If this is the case, try downloading the program via a USB cable.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: Hmm, I assume you've tried deleting it from the EV3 and re-loading it?
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Body: <p>I cannot run the program from the ev3 software.It only shows "VM program validiation" How do I stop this from happening?</p>
  
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Comments.Text: Do you get this for all Programs you try to run, or just this one?
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Title: The program downloaded from the education ev3 programming software has a error "VM program validation"
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ThreadText: # The program downloaded from the education ev3 programming software has a error "VM program validation"
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2014-12-05)
  
  I cannot run the program from the ev3 software.It only shows "VM program validiation" How do I stop this from happening?
  
  **Tags:** ev3-g
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: Do you get this for all Programs you try to run, or just this one?  
  > **username_0**: All the old programs work except for this one.  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2014-12-05. Score: 1
  
  How did you download the program to the EV3? According to [this post on the Mindstorms forum](https://community.lego.com/t5/MINDSTORMS/VM-Program-Validation/m-p/8354382/highlight/true#M25461) this can occur if there was a problem sending the program, usually via poor quality Bluetooth adaptors.
  
  You can confirm this if the downloaded program is only a few bytes in size on the Brick.
  
  If this is the case, try downloading the program via a USB cable.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: I used the usb  cable  
  > **username_1**: Hmm, I assume you've tried deleting it from the EV3 and re-loading it?  
  > **username_0**: I just learnt that the error occured because of another program had a similar name.  
  
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