Troubleshooting guide

38 Data Organization
4 Workflow with Unique Folder Creation switched off
Workflow with “Unique Folder Creation” switched off
Selecting “Unique Folder Creation Off” has the following impact on data
storage:
• Sequence data are not acquired into a sequence container, but directly into
the subdirectory as specified in the Sequence Parameters (Figure 3 on
page 15). Therefore, the sequence name pattern is grayed out on the
Sequence tab of the Preferences dialog (Figure 20 on page 37).
• This means that for two or more sequence acquisitions the data may be
acquired into the same subdirectory. This implies the risk to overwrite
existing data, but on the other hand allows to split sequences using partial
sequence execution and still combine the results in one folder (which would
not be possible with Unique Folder Creation switched on).
• No sequence methods (.M) or copies of the sequence file (.S) are stored with
the data, but only the sequence logfile and the batch file (.B). This means
only the methods and sequences in the paths specified in the Preferences
dialog (Figure 2 on page 14) are available. They have to be used for
acquisition as well as for data review and reprocessing. Sequence or data
file specific method changes can only be stored by saving the method with
different name. Otherwise these changes are also applied to the acquisition
method. On the other hand, this may be desired behavior during method
development.
NOTE
We recommend to decide between the two modes at the beginning of your work and not to
switch between them.
Switching Unique Folder Creation off is not supported with the ChemStation ECM
Integration or ChemStore/Security Pack installed.