Share a project

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On the Samples page, open a sample's ••• menu and choose Export…. To export several, select them and choose Export… in the bar that appears. To export a whole dataset, choose Export dataset… on its folder. File › Export Project… exports the project you have open.

Choose what goes into the fileCopy Anchor Link

The dialog lists each part with its size:

Images are left out by default because they are usually most of the bytes, and usually somewhere both computers can already see, such as a shared network drive. The file then records each image's name, size and fingerprint, and the other computer finds it again. Turn Images, masks and source tables on when the other person cannot reach your files. Each image is marked This computer, Shared drive, Data node or Missing, so you can see which would be reachable. An image on a data node is referenced and opens when that node is connected; node addresses and tokens are never put in the file.

Smaller images makes a file with images much smaller: each 16-bit fluorescence image goes about 85% smaller, with its pyramid. It is not an exact copy. Every pixel comes back within the noise the camera already recorded in it: bright staining within about 2% of its value, dim staining near the background within about 7%. Masks, cell tables and colour images always go exactly as they are. When the person importing the file has your original image, Plexora uses the original; otherwise it opens the smaller image from the file as it is, so the import is quick and the image stays small on disk. The website opens smaller images too, but only the desktop app and Plexora on a computer or server make them.

Your computer's own records (saved servers, tokens, licence files) are never included, and neither are caches that Plexora rebuilds when the project opens.

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Choose where to save it when the desktop app asks. On the website, Chrome and Edge show the browser's Save dialog and write the file where you choose; Firefox and Safari have no such dialog, so the file is downloaded and your browser keeps it in its downloads. The dialog shows the stages (taking a snapshot, packing, checking the file). You can close it while the file is written and a notice appears when it is done; Cancel stops the export and removes the half-written file.

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Any of these:

• File › Import Project…, or Import Project… on the Samples page, then choose the file. On the website the file is read where it is on your computer, not uploaded.
• Drag a .plexora file onto the Plexora window.
• Double-click a .plexora file in Finder or File Explorer.

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Plexora reads only the file's list of contents first, and shows each project with what importing it will do:

Under each project the dialog says how many of its images were found on this computer, how many the file includes (and how many of those arrive as smaller copies), and how many are still to find. It also shows where the projects will go: a location from the list in Settings › Data, with the default first.

Import, then find missing imagesCopy Anchor Link

Choose Import. Closing the dialog does not stop the import; Cancel does, and leaves nothing behind. When it is done, each project has Open. Plexora looks for the images in the places they were recorded and on shared drives. For a project whose images were not found, choose Find missing images… and pick the folder that holds them; Plexora searches that folder only. On the website the browser's own folder dialog opens. A project whose images are still missing opens as soon as they are found, and Plexora keeps looking when you open it.