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Using 'Places' to quickly access your files

Introduction

Most of us tend to organise our computer files into some sort of logical structure within folders. For example, you might have a folder somewhere on your computer called 'ANY-maze experiments', and within that you might have separate folders organised by project, or perhaps by apparatus type.

Whenever you want to access a file in ANY-maze, you'll obviously need to navigate through this structure to the relevant folder (unless the file happens to be in a 'recently used' list). Places are designed to make this navigation quicker. Essentially, a place is just a shortcut to a specific folder, and selecting one will display the files the folder contains, directly in ANY-maze.

Figure 1. An example of a place; the list on the right is showing all of the experiment files in the 'Plusmaze experiments' place.

Adding a place

You can add a place simply by selecting the Add a place option shown when either New experiment or Open experiment is selected on the File page. Doing this will cause the Add a place window to open - see figure 2.

Figure 2. The Add a place window. Here you simply need to enter a name for the place and select the folder it will refer to.

Here you simply need to choose the folder you want the place to refer to and give the place a name, which can be any text you want.

After adding a place it will appear in the list of places shown when you select either New experiment or Open experiment on the File page (so it doesn't matter where you added the place; it will appear in both lists).

Using a place

To use a place, simply select it in the list. The right-hand side of the File page will then show a list of all the appropriate ANY-maze files in that place - see figure 1, above, for an example.

Sorting the files in a place

The list of files in a place can be sorted either by date (the default option) or alphabetically by file name. To choose how the list should be sorted, simply right click over the list and selecting the appropriate sort option from the menu that appears.

Editing or removing a place

To edit a place, right click it in the list and select Properties from the menu which appears. This will cause the Add a place window to open, where you can edit both the place name and the folder the place refers to.

To remove a place, right click it and select Remove this place from the menu which appears. This will remove the place from the list, but won't affect the folder the place refers to.

Automatically included places

ANY-maze includes two places automatically; these are My personal ANY-maze files and Shared ANY-maze files. The folders these places refer to are set up as part of the Filing options. These places can't be removed.