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xyliu
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default directory for file saving

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Hi, I could not make picoscope to change default saving directory. Everytime, it uses a specific directory name instead of the one I choose to save last time. In the past, it was fine. Is there a way to change the default saving directory? My picoscope 6 version is 6.7.13.3. Thank you!

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Re: default directory for file saving

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Hi this can be done by going into the preferences file, this will be located in:

For beta:

C:\Users\ \AppData\Local\Pico Technology\260a68f1-c314-451b-830f-0a5e01d65514

or

Standard :

C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Pico Technology\64358d19-ef91-48bb-9ae0-3b4689d44d99

Open it a text editor, like notepad and change the line that says


In the standard software wherever you save your data this will become your default folder.

Hope this helps.
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Re: default directory for file saving

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I have beta software. Is there a way to change to my last saved directory or specify a directory somewhere. Modify the preference file does not always work.

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You need to make sure you have the correct xml tags around the command as shown

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Re: default directory for file saving

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Thank you for your reply. Do I need to change the 2nd line of your code everytime manually? Is there a way to automatically use my most recently save directory, instead of a fix directory name specified in the preferences.xml? The older version picoscope 6 did just that.

Thank you!

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The R6.7 strand is now the release branch so please upgrade to this version http://www.picotech.com/software.html
If you save a file it will create the following tag in the xml file, and this will be saved on exit from the software

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Re: default directory for file saving

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the preferences .xml files in

C:\Users\***\AppData\Local\Pico Technology\64358d19-ef91-48bb-9ae0-3b4689d44d99

for install version R6 8 11 doesn't have the following set of lines at all.





How shall I change the default saving directory then?

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File->Save and the directory you navigate to will become the default directory for this save, and future ones.
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Re: default directory for file saving

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This seems to work only while saving "*.psdata" files.

When I save other file types the default directory is not changed (took me a while to find this because I alsways save .csv files.


Is there maybe also an option to save the last file type? (I always need to switch from *.psdata to *.txt)

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Re: default directory for file saving

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I will pass the suggestion on to the development team for consideration.
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Re: default directory for file saving

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Did the ability to change the default Save as Type, ever get added?

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