how to share epidata files?
Dear epidata-list members,
I'm a new member and I'm quite new also in the use of Epidata. I need some support.
My team is coordinating a multicentre study. At the beginning of the study we prepared a database (files .qes, .chk and .rec) and sent it to all centres; during the study they send back to us regularly the updated .rec files with the records. We have problems in receiving via e-mail, as attached documents, epidata files (especially files .rec with records, but also without records). We sometimes are not able to open the files, or sometimes we manage to open the files but the records are not there. We realised it depends also on the e-mail server used by every centre, and on other variables too.
I wonder which would be the best way to share epidata databases.
Many thanks
Alessandro
Am 08.10.2010 10:29, schrieb epidata-list@lists.umanitoba.ca:
Dear epidata-list members,
I'm a new member and I'm quite new also in the use of Epidata. I need some support.
My team is coordinating a multicentre study. At the beginning of the study we prepared a database (files .qes, .chk and .rec) and sent it to all centres; during the study they send back to us regularly the updated .rec files with the records. We have problems in receiving via e-mail, as attached documents, epidata files (especially files .rec with records, but also without records). We sometimes are not able to open the files, or sometimes we manage to open the files but the records are not there. We realised it depends also on the e-mail server used by every centre, and on other variables too.
I wonder which would be the best way to share epidata databases.
Many thanks
Alessandro
EpiData-list mailing list EpiData-list@lists.umanitoba.ca http://lists.umanitoba.ca/mailman/listinfo/epidata-list
You can solve the problem when you zip the rec-files before you send them as a email-attachment.
Juergen
Hello Alessandro,
The best way is to zip the files in. The receiver should take care that when the package is unzipped the contents are nor opened automatically by any windows program like Notepad or Word. Just store the comtents of your zip pack in a folder en use the REC-files. Greets, Louk Meertens.
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Dear epidata-list members,
I'm a new member and I'm quite new also in the use of Epidata. I need some support.
My team is coordinating a multicentre study. At the beginning of the study we prepared a database (files .qes, .chk and .rec) and sent it to all centres; during the study they send back to us regularly the updated .rec files with the records. We have problems in receiving via e-mail, as attached documents, epidata files (especially files .rec with records, but also without records). We sometimes are not able to open the files, or sometimes we manage to open the files but the records are not there. We realised it depends also on the e-mail server used by every centre, and on other variables too.
I wonder which would be the best way to share epidata databases.
Many thanks
Alessandro
EpiData-list mailing list EpiData-list@lists.umanitoba.ca http://lists.umanitoba.ca/mailman/listinfo/epidata-list
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