Procedure file locations

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I have major problems with experiments not loading in Igor because procedure files cannot be found. This occurs whenever I copy experiments from one computer. It is especially annoying because more often than not I do not want to reanalyze the data, I just want to look at a graph. What can be done to

A) immediately alleviate this issue so that I can work with files, as far as centrally locating procedure files cross-platform (Windows PC and a Macbook)

B) make it so that Igor doesn't say "Can't find them, your only choice is to abort experiment loading), which I find just unacceptable. I think this requires a rework of how Igor handles opening files, which is way beyond me.

Please advise, this is taking way more of my time than it should be!
patarroyo wrote:
I have major problems with experiments not loading in Igor because procedure files cannot be found. ....


With a reply ...

andyfaff wrote:
You have to adopt those procedures, so they stay with the experiment


Take care when adopting procedures ...

**** If the procedures are updated in "newer" versions some time later, your experiment will contain still the older adopted versions. *****

An alternative approach is to duplicate and keep updated the User Procedures folder among all affected machines. This might be a better approach for you and/or when you are using procedures that someone else developed, for example those you might have downloaded from this site, rather than a procedure developed specifically for the given experiment.

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J. J. Weimer
Chemistry / Chemical & Materials Engineering, UAHuntsville

April 7, 2010 at 05:10 pm - Permalink

As Andy said, you can used packed procedure files so that the procedure files are stored within the experiment file.

If you have procedure files that need to be shared between several experiments, you can use either global procedure files or #included procedure files. For details, execute this:

DisplayHelpTopic "Procedure Windows"


and read down through the sections "Shared Procedure Files", "Global Procedure Files" and "Including a Procedure File".

April 7, 2010 at 05:18 pm - Permalink