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For new Data Scout Advanced installations, it is also used to copy files from an old installation. The archive window contains two
identical frames of controls. The first frame displays folders, filters, and their files from the Main Base Path (i.e., where Data Scout
Advanced is installed, and where Data Scout Advanced keeps its main data files in subfolders). The buttons in this frame allow the user
to Delete any of these files as well as Copy or Move selected groups of them to like-named subfolders of the Archive Base Path (i.e., a
separate location where these primary files can be saved for archive or back-up purposes). The second frame displays folders, filters,
and their files from the Archive Base Path (if one has been configured by Configure | General Options (DSAdv)). Its buttons allows the
user to delete any of these files as well as to copy or move selected groups of them to like-named subfolders of the Main Base Path.
Figure 3.5
Each of the frames operates exactly the same. Clicking the arrow at the right of the Folder: box will reveal the names of all subfolders
currently defined in its base path. Clicking the arrow at the right end of the Filter: box will reveal many useful “starter” filters that may
be used to limit the actual number of files that will appear in the Files: list box of the selected folder. However, the user may also click
the Filter: box after any filter is displayed there, and edit it. The Files: box will change immediately once the characters of the filter are
changed. If the Files: box is empty, then there are no files in the selected folder that match the filtering criteria. The three function
buttons in a frame act directly on all the files currently contained in the Files: box. Thus, clicking the Del button will Delete all those
files, and clicking the Move or Copy button will Move or Copy all those files to the other frame’s like-named subfolder.
The second frame is dim if a unique Archive Base Path has not been assigned in Data Scout Advanced using the Configure | General
Options (DSAdv) Main menu item. In that case the Archive window is only capable of deleting files in the Main Base Path subfolders.
Although the Archive window is highly restricted as to which folders it can copy or move files to, or to which it can delete files in, it has
some other very useful features:
„ The Files: Label (adjacent to the upper left side of the Files: box, either frame) has a ToolTip that always indicates the
number of files currently displayed inside its adjacent Files: box.
„ When a file name is displayed in a Files: box (either frame) and highlighted. At the same time the ToolTip for that
Files: box will be changed to include information about that highlighted file (i.e., it will show the full path, file name,
size, type of file, and date-last-modified). However, to see this updated ToolTip information, the mouse cursor must
be moved outside the box and then moved back into the box. Note that the current ToolTip only describes the
highlighted file, not just any file name entry in the box.
„ By double-clicking a highlighted file name in either Files: box, the Data Scout Advanced text editor will open in a
window to allow the user to view the contents of that file (if it is readable text, or in any format the text editor can
display).
„ Note that highlighting any file in a Files: box has no particular meaning, except for the last two items described
above. It does not in any way affect which files are copied, moved, or deleted. All the files in the box are affected
when Del, Move, or Copy action button are selected in the subject frame.
The File | Exit (DSAdv) function is used to close the Data Scout Advanced application. Exit terminates all concurrently running Data
Scout Advanced tasks and windows. If any files are open they are closed. Just before exit, the current site network is normally saved to
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