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"All About Projects and Files" video

Roger Smith
in PixInsight
Hi Adam, 
I thought this through before I post it.... 
This was a great video and really shows the power of PI to save projects, capturing the entire PI state including files, PI desktop icons, and related data. It also clearly distinguished between files saving and project saving. Thank you!

You demonstrated (starting at 17:05) that when a project is saved, the data is saved into the xxxMosaic.pxiproject folder which then has subfolders. The .pxiproject subfolder has the data and images that are associated with PI when you saved the project. The other subfolders have other related data.

Some questions come up as I am running out of disk space and need to move things to a new drive. When saving a project I always put it into the folder that has all the orginal images from my camera.

1. What is the best way to handle moving to a new drive? I mean what things need to be moved? Will the PI project get lost because the path is different? Can a PI project folder (with it's subfolders) by itself moved to a new path separate from the original image data?

2. I am using a laptop which has an internal SSD, and with a TB3 external SSD. I find it fast enough. I always use the external SSD as the place that I process my new images. 
--- After a project is completely finished is a HDD a good place (practice) to move the entire folder with original files and the saved PI .pxiproject folder? --- From the HDD would you ever re-open the project directly, or would you move everything back to a SSD?

3. PI is always advancing it's capablities, including scripts like WBPP.  If I open a project saved several years ago, will WBPP open as the old version or latest? So any issues with older saved projects?

Thank you,
    Roger

Comments

  • BlockHeadBlockHead
    1. No. If you keep the project file and folder in a child folder (same relationship as now)... then I believe everything is OK.
    2. Yes. If you need to do more you can temporarily copy to the SSD ..and then back to HDD.
    3. Scripts are dynamically downloaded and fetched from repositories after you install. You will always be using the lasted versions of scripts. Some of the history states may be broken when looking at older processed data.. but often nothing too significant.

    -the Blockhead
  • Roger Smith

    PI is very well managed and powerful. Thanks for your answers.
    Roger
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