User`s guide

E-Prime User’s Guide
Chapter 5: Data Handling
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As with the standard merge operation, the Merge Log and the File List contain feedback about
the merge operation. Selecting the Data folder and the Originals folder independently, in the
Folder Tree, will reveal the individual data files that have been merged during the operation.
Notice that the data files from the Originals folder were actually merged into a target file in a
different folder location (i.e., Data folder).
Figure 1. Merged data in the parent folder (i.e., Data).
Figure 2. Merged data in the sub-folder (i.e., Originals).
As part of the E-Prime installation, the data files included in the Originals folder are actually
identical copies of those included in the Data folder. During the merge operation, E-Merge
identifies the overlap and sends warning messages to the Merge Log window.
Although the “Number of files” report in the Merge Log accurately describes the operation as
involving 10 files, the RecursiveMergeData.emrg file will actually only contain 5 files. When the
identical files from the Originals folder were merged into the target file, E-Merge detected that
they were duplicates of the files just merged from the Data folder, and simply overwrote the files
(see section 5.2.4-Conflicts for more information).
5.2.3.3 Undo Merge
During any single E-Merge session, E-Merge permits the most recent merge operation to be
reversed by clicking the Undo Merge button, or by selecting the Undo Merge command from the
Edit menu. E-Merge supports only one level of undo. Therefore, once another merge operation
is performed, or the application is closed, the previous merge operation may not be reversed.