User`s guide

E-Prime User’s Guide
Chapter 5: Data Handling
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After completing the merge operation, the application will display the Merge Results dialog,
summarizing the operation. In addition, the details concerning the success or failure of merging
specific files is reflected in the Merge Log view.
The status of a particular file (e.g., previously merged to a target file, set as the target file, never
been merged, etc.) may be observed by viewing a file’s icon in the File List view.
As illustrated in the image above, after merging the Tutorial experiment data files into the
MergedData.emrg file, each file’s icon receives a green checkmark, indicating that it has been
merged. The icon for the file currently set as the target file is marked by a target symbol.
5.2.3.2 Recursive
To merge data files in E-Merge using the Recursive merge operation, open the parent data folder
in the Folder Tree and click the Merge button to merge. Unlike the Standard merge operation in
which the data files are selected before clicking the Merge button, the Recursive merge operation
prompts the user for the file selection criteria. Note, the images used throughout this example
reflect operations upon data files included with the E-Prime installation. With the default
installation, these files exist in the C:\My Experiments\Tutorials\Data folder.
Open Folder
In the Folder Tree, select the parent data folder (i.e., the folder that contains the subfolders with
data files). Data files will appear in the File List view depending on whether the parent folder
contains data files or whether the data files exist only in the subfolders. In the image above, the
Data folder is the parent folder containing both data files and the Originals subfolder. Additional
data files are contained within the Originals folder. Actually, the data files within the Originals