Installed Project Folders; Back Up The Api Instrument Folder - AB Sciex QTRAP 4500 LC/MS/MS system System User's Manual

Operating Instructions — Hardware Profiles and Projects
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Icon Name
Copy Subproject Copies a Subproject folder.

Installed Project Folders

Three project folders are installed with the software: API Instrument, Default, and Example.
API Instrument Folder
The API Instrument folder is unique and very important to the correct functioning of the mass
spectrometer. The API Instrument folder contains the information required for tuning and
calibrating the mass spectrometer. This information includes parameter settings files, reference
files, instrument data files that contain calibration and resolution information, and the acquisition
methods used during automatic tuning. The API Instrument folder also contains data files for
manual tuning runs that were performed using the Start button rather than the Acquire button.
These data files are saved automatically in the API Instrument folder in the Tuning Cache
folder and named with the date and time they were created. The Tuning Cache folder is
automatically cleared periodically.
Default Folder
The Default folder contains folders that are present in new projects and serves as a template for
new projects.
Example Folder
The Example folder contains sample methods and data files. Users can practice working with
the Explore or Quantitate modes using the example data files. The example files are sorted into
subfolders by mass spectrometer type and application area.

Back Up the API Instrument Folder

Back up the API Instrument folder regularly and after routine maintenance has been performed.
1. Copy the API Instrument folder, paste it to a different location, preferably to another
computer, and then rename the folder. Use the date and a mass spectrometer
reference if there is more than one mass spectrometer when the folder is named. For
example, API Instrument__4000QTRAP3_010107
2. To recover the folder, rename the current API Instrument folder, copy the backup
folder into the Projects folder, and then change the name of the backup folder to API
Instrument.
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Function
Subprojects can be copied only from another project that has
existing subprojects. If the same folders exist at both the project
and subproject levels, the software uses the project level folders.
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