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Restart Acquisition Programs ("RAP")

RAP

  1. Stop/Close the Acquisition program (megacq).
  2. Open the Maintenance folder under the Neuromag folder in the Desktop’s Applications menu to see the available actions.
  3. Select the Restart Acquisition Programs icon ("RAP").
  4. Confirm that you really want to proceed by answering "Y" to the question appearing in the Restart Acquisition Programs terminal window.
  5. Observe the messages in the window during the restarting.
  6. Should the restart operation fail, verify all physical power and data connections, as well as network connections, are working. Then ...

7. Close the terminal window, and try from point #2 again. If successful, then...
8. Wait until the message...Restart complete. Press <Enter> to close the window ...appears and press Enter on the keyboard.
9. If you had collected data and megacq ceased to work after you pressed Stop, you can rescue your data by double-clicking the Rescue Data icon in the Maintenance folder.
10. If there is some data to be saved, you will first see a dialog to confirm that you would really like to proceed. Thereafter, a standard megacq saving dialog will appear. The rescued data will be saved under the project directory called unknown if the real project name could not be retrieved.
11. Restart megacq by selecting the Acquisition icon in the Neuromag folder.