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tarcarter	tarcarter posted 10 Years Ago HOT Topic Details Share Topic
Group: Forum Members Posts: 2, Visits: 7	Using a Mac, I've been trying to get Inquisit to save the data files in a subfolder, rather than in the folder where the script is located. I can get it to work with surveys like so: <data> / file = "Data/" </data> Which saves the data file into the Data folder, but I can't seem to specify what the file should be called. So if I use <data> / file = "Data/DataFile.iqdat" </data> It gives me an error saying that the file doesn't exist. Plus, when I try this approach on a more complex script like an IAT, replacing the default filename with "Data/" the data file does not save in the folder at all, just names the file "DataData_1_2014-03-07-22-35-20-723.iqdat". What am I doing wrong? There's precious little in the documentation about how to define a file path, especially on the Mac side. Thanks!
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Dave	Dave posted 10 Years Ago ANSWER Post Details Share Post
Group: Administrators Posts: 12K, Visits: 98K	Does / file = "./Data/DataFile.iqdat" work?
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tarcarter	tarcarter posted 10 Years Ago ANSWER Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 2, Visits: 7	No, that doesn't work -- it won't run the script with "./" at the front. I tried it several different ways (with and without the directory, with and without a file after the directory), and it always returns an error: "Unable to access the data file at "./Data/". Verify this is a valid path.
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Dave	Dave posted 10 Years Ago ANSWER Post Details Share Post
Group: Administrators Posts: 12K, Visits: 98K	Thanks -- sounds like some sort of bug may be involved here. I'll make sure this gets looked into.
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gaumarjos	gaumarjos posted 9 Years Ago ANSWER Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 2, Visits: 11	Was this ever resolved? I am having the same problem. v 4.0.8.0
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Dave	Dave posted 9 Years Ago ANSWER Post Details Share Post
Group: Administrators Posts: 12K, Visits: 98K	No, not yet. For the time being, it's best to simply use the default data file location, i.e., don't specify a custom path / subdirectory.
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seandr	seandr posted 6 Years Ago ANSWER Post Details Share Post
Group: Administrators Posts: 1.3K, Visits: 5.6K	To clarify, if all you want is data to appear in a subfolder, the following will work: <data> / file = "subfolder/" </data> What doesn't work in Inquisit 4 is specifying the subfolder and file name. This has been fixed in Inquisit 5. -Sean
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