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TUTORIAL:

Creating a New Project

For the purpose of this tutorial, you can refer to and use the test data that is included with the QACD-quack source code.

  1. Select Project | New from the menu.

  2. Enter (or select) a name for the project file that will contain all of the project’s data. As we are using the supplied test data, a sensible name is test.quack – you only need to enter test as the .quack is automatically added for you. The QACD-quack project file can be anywhere you wish, it doesn’t have to be in the same directory as the imported raw data as the project file contains its own copy of the raw data.

  3. Click the Save button or press Enter to accept the project file name.

  4. Navigate to the directory containing the raw CSV files, which is called test_data. Select all of the CSV files, using a combination of mouse clicks and the shift or control key depending on your Operating System.

  5. Click the Open button and the raw data files will be imported. A progress bar is displayed as this occurs, but because the data files are small the import will be very quick.

  6. The project file is automatically updated whenever you make any changes, so there is no need for any ‘Save’ or ‘Save as’ functionality in the main menu.

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