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Please help! Data Sources Unaccessible [Archive] - ATLAS.ti Forum:  I was unable to access my primary documents. In the Primary Doc Manager, the first three primary documents are in red color while the others are in black. Those three primary documents are in red in all backup HUs, so I cannot reload them from anywhere. I am unable to access those first three PDs which are very important :( All codes are still in the code manager but all quotations disappear from the output as you can see from the message below :(
If anyone knows how to fix this, please help suggest me and I will very appreciate that. I have time limit in collecting data as a student so please let me know ASAP. I am looking forward to hearing from all of you. Thank you in advances :D

I think I solved the problem:

When you right klick on the document that doesn't open, click on Data Source Management. Then you'll have the following option, which is a quote from the Help Menu:

Reset Last Access Information
To avoid accessing the wrong document, ATLAS.ti memorizes the certain state (size, date, path) of a document each time it was successfully accessed.

If ATLAS.ti detects a deviation between this access information and the referenced file, it assumes that it has been edited with another software or that it has been replaced with another version.

Because such changes bear the danger of corrupting the alignment of quotations, loading is rejected.

However, in some situations everything might be in good order. If you know for sure that the current state of the document would not render any of the work done in the primary document, like quote creation and/or coding, useless, you may force ATLAS.ti to accept the modified document as a legal primary document’s data source: choose Documents/Data Source Management/Reset Last Access Information. This synchronizes the access information stored in the HU with the actual access info of the file. An example of an action that does not negatively affect a PD is adding text at the end of a data document.

Note: With this powerful option you can make files loadable that could detrimentally affect your work. If you detect misaligned quotations after you chose this procedure, you know you did something wrong. If this has happened, you should either leave the HU without saving or correct all misaligned quotations manually.

RE: PDF mapping programs... wow...

Good morning,

I've gotten crazy deep into this text analysis stuff.   Another PhD student I met is going through like 30,000 documents. . . too crazy for me.  But if you are still exploring this link and PDFs will help.  I've been testing Atlasti and it's really cool. . . but explore if you want:

 

http://onlineqda.hud.ac.uk/Intro_CAQDAS/what_packages_are_available/index.php

Send to EndNote

This is wicked cool, as I can search and search through World of Knowledge, Engineering Village, ProQuest, and even Google, and each one gives me the option to export the citations directly to Endnotes.  The first three will allow me to export the complete search.  Then I can select all in Endnotes, Update all the References ((watch out it usually will change formats and add the publisher but it uses the DOI which can be wrong and you'll see a completely new article coming in to replace what you found = new authors, date and issue => SKIP this!)), and Download all the Text files.  I have found they are not always available. . . Another trick I did was for those "not found" I create a group of them in Endnotes, select all and <copy formatted> into Word.  You should have it set to APA, as you get that format, or which ever you choose.

Once in word I <save as> <htm>, then open it into a Firefox browser and select each title to search in Google Scholar.  Endnote seems to only connect to selected databases in the library while Google gets them all and a few others.  So often I can find all the PDFs faster this way!

Then Endnote 6x converts all the PDFs to "author-year-title" format, while 7x allows you to select the PDF file names

Web of Knowledge Help: Send to EndNote

This feature allow you to export selected records to your desktop version of EndNote. You can also use this feature to export records to Reference Manager.

Select the record(s) to include in the output.

Select the data to include in each record.

Select EndNote from the Send To menu to open a processing overlay dialog and to launch the export application.

If you have installed more than one reference program, then you will be prompted to select a program before you can select a reference library.
Open a reference library when the Select a Reference Library dialog box to export the records.

Note: To export selected records to third-party reference software see, Save to other Reference Software.