back-converting from script to studio
Travis Nichols, Villanova University
I am in the process of revising a previous experiment coded in E-
Prime. Much to my sad surprise, I have found that at some point in
between the original coding and the present, I deleted the original
studio file for one condition of the experiment. I still have the E-
Run script file that I was using to remotely conduct the experiment,
but that is not helping me now as I am trying to revise the project.
Is there anyway to convert the script file back into a studio file? It
seems like it should be possible: since Studio created the script
file, it should be able to convert the script back to studio, right?
Any suggestions are welcome,
Travis
David McFarlane
Sorry, bucko. You don't have to take my word for this, for if you
search the Google Group or the PST Forum you will see that this very
issue has come up time and again -- there is no automated way to
reconstruct an .es or .es2 file from an .ebs or .ebs2 file, no way,
no how. You will just have to manually reconstruct your .es/.es2
file. If you have a good-old EP1 .ebs file (which is plain readable
text) and some expertise in reading E-Basic code then you might use
that as a guide. But if you have only a bad-new EP2 .ebs2 file (now
binhex-encoded, once again see discussion thread at
http://support.pstnet.com/forum/Topic696-12-2.aspx ) then all hope is lost.
Well, maybe one last hope does remain, try "Copy backup experiments
to the desktop" from the General tab of the Tools > Options dialog.
-- David McFarlane, Professional Faultfinder
Travis Nichols, Villanova University
On Jan 21, 2:50 pm, David McFarlane <mcfar...@msu.edu> wrote:
> Travis,
>
> Sorry, bucko. You don't have to take my word for this, for if you
> search the Google Group or the PST Forum you will see that this very
> issue has come up time and again -- there is no automated way to
> reconstruct an .es or .es2 file from an .ebs or .ebs2 file, no way,
> no how. You will just have to manually reconstruct your .es/.es2
> file. If you have a good-old EP1 .ebs file (which is plain readable
> text) and some expertise in reading E-Basic code then you might use
> that as a guide. But if you have only a bad-new EP2 .ebs2 file (now
> binhex-encoded, once again see discussion thread athttp://support.pstnet.com/forum/Topic696-12-2.aspx) then all hope is lost.
>
> Well, maybe one last hope does remain, try "Copy backup experiments
> to the desktop" from the General tab of the Tools > Options dialog.
>
> -- David McFarlane, Professional Faultfinder
>
>
>
> >I am in the process of revising a previous experiment coded in E-
> >Prime. Much to my sad surprise, I have found that at some point in
> >between the original coding and the present, I deleted the original
> >studio file for one condition of the experiment. I still have the E-
> >Run script file that I was using to remotely conduct the experiment,
> >but that is not helping me now as I am trying to revise the project.
>
> >Is there anyway to convert the script file back into a studio file? It
> >seems like it should be possible: since Studio created the script
> >file, it should be able to convert the script back to studio, right?
>
> >Any suggestions are welcome,- Hide quoted text -
>
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