User Guide

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Chapter 4
analysis mode even if they are in shared folders. Permissions for shared folders must
include the ability to write to the folder if you want to save data files in a local folder.
To Save Data
Files from a Remote Server
E Make the Da
ta Editor the active window.
E From the me
nus choose:
File
Save (or Save As...)
Data File Ac
cess in Local and Distributed Analysis Mode
The view of d
ata files, folders (directories), and drives for both your local computer
and the network is based on the computer you are currently using to process
commands and run procedures—which is not necessarily the computer in front of you.
Local anal
ysis mode.
When you use your local computer as your “server,” the view of
data files, folders, and drives that you see in the file access dialog box (for opening
data files) is similar to what you see in other applications or in the Windows Explorer.
You can se
e all of the data files and folders on your computer and any files and
folders on mounted network drives that you normally see.
Distributed analysis mode. When you use another computer as a “remote server” to
run comma
nds and procedures, the view of data files, folders, and drives represents
the view from the perspective of the remote server computer. Although you may
see familiar folder names such as Program Files anddrivessuchasC,theseare
not the f
olders and drives on your computer; they are the folders and drives on the
remote server.