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Viewing experiment information
Overview
Whenever you switch to the File page when an experiment is open, ANY-maze will display the Experiment information. This not only provides details about the experiment but also allows you to alter the file's protection (for example, to add a password), view details of related files, and review all backup copies of the file.
Figure 1. The experiment information shows a wealth of useful information about an experiment.
Details
| Properties | The Properties section contains much useful information about the experiment, such as the location where the file is saved, the number of tests and animals in the experiment, the total amount of time spent testing so far and an estimate of how long the remaining tests will take to complete. |
| Experiment protection | Experiment files can be password protected and/or encrypted, and this section will show the file's current protection. Usually if you want to protect a file you will specify a password when you first save it, but you can use the Change protection option to access the File protection window where you can add, edit or remove the file's password and/or encrypt the file. |
| Related files | This section will list files related to this experiment. This includes any protocol file used to load a protocol into the experiment, any files from which animals or tests were imported, the folder to which test videos are being saved automatically and, if relevant, the experiment design file. Clicking on any of the files (or folders) shown here will locate the file in Windows Explorer (i.e. show you where on your computer the file is). |
| Previous versions | Whenever you save an experiment, ANY-maze will (usually) store the previous version of the file as a backup. If you save the file again, then you'll have two previous versions; save again and you'll have three - i.e. you'll have a history of all the previous versions of the file. You probably don't want this to go on forever, otherwise you could end up with a lot of previous versions taking up a lot of space on your disk drive, so you can tell ANY-maze how many previous versions it should retain. By default the value is 3, but you can change it in Options > Filing to any number up to 9 (you can also turn off this storing of previous versions altogether if you want). As you'll doubtless have realised, the previous versions section of the Experiment information lists all the previous file versions. Right-clicking on one of these files will give you two options: Restore the backup file (this will load the backup file in place of the current experiment), or locate the file in Windows Explorer (i.e. show you where on your computer the file is). |
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| • | Filing options |
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