ATLAS.ti Rocks!

Every now and again, every software user makes one or more silly mistakes. This weekend, one of mine was to mistakenly operate off my flash drive when adding and coding photos with ATLAS.ti. This evening, I transcribed the day's notes and added them to my hermeneutic unit. Imagine my dismay when the photos I had worked so hard to resize, name, and code were grayed out on my lists! The pictures were unavailable. I decided to right-click to check out the properties. It turns out there was an option called data source monitor. That's when I discovered my path problem. Fortunately, they also had an option called change path. Theoretically, I should be able to replace the path with the correct one, but when do things work as you hope? What did I have to lose? I proceeded and - to my surprise - it worked like a charm! ATLAS.ti not only found my pictures, but it maintained all of my codes in the right places. Don't you just love it when things work?