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Hello,
I have a question regarding data storage on Inquisit Web and whether it might be possible to recover execution‑order information from a past study.
About a year ago, I ran an Experiment on Inquisit Web in which the main part was structured as follows (code snippet below). Each participant completed a randomized sequence of survey scenarios (with noreplace).
In my local data structure, the survey folder contains one subfolder per scenario (e.g., scenario_05), and within each of those subfolders there is one file per participant (200+ participants total). I used those files for the main analysis.
I would now like to run a secondary analysis that requires knowing, for each participant, the exact order in which the survey scenarios were executed. Unfortunately, I do not think this information can be reconstructed from the files in the survey folder alone.
I checked the raw folder and found only three .iqdat files. Based on their filenames, two appear to correspond to test runs. The third seems to be from an actual participant, but the timestamp in the filename does not align with the timestamps of the corresponding survey files. This makes me suspect that I may have inadvertently deleted some files from the raw folder at some point.
My questions are therefore:
1) Do experiments run on Inquisit Web save files to the raw folder by default?
2) If so, would those files normally allow reconstruction of the order in which each participant completed the survey scenarios?
3) Most importantly: is there any way to retrieve raw files that may have been deleted (e.g., via server backups or elsewhere)?
Below is the relevant part of the experiment code for context:
<expt MAIN>
/ blocks = [1 = survey.INTRO; 2-25 = noreplace(survey.SCENARIO_01, survey.SCENARIO_03, survey.SCENARIO_04, survey.SCENARIO_05, survey.SCENARIO_08, survey.SCENARIO_10, survey.SCENARIO_11, survey.SCENARIO_13, survey.SCENARIO_14, survey.SCENARIO_16, survey.SCENARIO_17, survey.SCENARIO_18, survey.SCENARIO_19, survey.SCENARIO_21, survey.SCENARIO_22, survey.SCENARIO_26, survey.SCENARIO_27, survey.SCENARIO_28, survey.SCENARIO_29, survey.SCENARIO_30, survey.SCENARIO_32, survey.SCENARIO_33, survey.SCENARIO_35, survey.SCENARIO_36)]
</expt>
Thanks in advance!
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