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The Save experiment window
Overview
When you save an experiment for the first time, or you use Save as...,, the Save experiment window will be displayed. Here you can provide a name for the experiment, and select where on your computer or network you'd like it to be saved.
Figure 1. The Save experiment window.
Details
You will probably be familiar with this window already, as it's based on the standard 'Save file' window used in almost all Windows software.
It's often very useful to enlarge this window so you can see more files. You can do this by dragging the bottom right corner with the mouse.
| Files list | The files list shows the folders and experiments files stored in the current location. You can double click a folder to open it and you can click a file to transfer its name to the File name field. |
| File name | Use this field to enter a name for the experiment file. ANY-maze will automatically fill in this field with the Experiment's title, assuming you've given it one, but you can delete this and type in something else if you wish to. |
File names can be up 255 characters long, but cannot contain any of the following characters: \ / : * ? " < > |. If the experiment's title includes any of these characters, they'll be replaced by a space when the title is copied to this field.
| Type of file | Experiments are always saved as ANY-maze experiment (.szd) files, so you can ignore the file types listed. |
| Password | You can optionally enter a password to protect the file. If you do so, then you will need to re-enter the password when you try to open the file in the future. |
You can enter anything you like as the password, but it must be between 5 and 15 characters long. If you don't enter anything at all, the file will not be protected. You can change a file's protection at any time using the File protection window.
In fact, if you expect you'll usually password protect your files, then you can tell ANY-maze to automatically protect all your files using your ANY-maze password. This has two benefits - you won't need to enter a password each time you save a file and, provided you're logged on, ANY-maze will open your files without asking you for the password as you had to provide it to log-on in the first place. If you want to use this facility, you should check the box titled Protect my files by default... which is shown in Options > My account.
It's important to understand that protecting a file in this way will prevent other people from opening it, but it won't prevent them from using Windows to move it, copy it, delete it etc. - to prevent that, you should protect the file using Windows' native security options.
See also:
| • | Creating new experiments |
| • | Saving and loading protocols |
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