batch run export command

ELAN
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Hi Everybody

I am using the Export As Tab-delimited text option in Elan 4.7.3 to export the files one by one as separate .txt files. I don’t use the Export multiple files option, because it saves them into one .txt file, that I don’t want.
I am using the following parameters to export one by one:

  • Select tiers: By Annotators : Annotator 1
  • Add master media time offset to annotation times
  • Separate column for each tier
  • Duration
  • msec

Now the question is: how can I bulk export them using the above parameters? How can I run a batch command under Elan?
Or how can I use the export multiple files option to save each file as a separate txt file?
Thank you for your assistance

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Currently I don’t think this is possible.
For some multiple file export functions there is a separate step in which naming and the location of the exported files can be specified. Something similar could be added to the multiple file export to tab-delimited text as well.

-Han

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So if it is not possible, then how can I use the export multiple files option to save each file as a separate txt file?
Currently, after specifying the domain where the files are, then it loads them, then after specifying the parameters, it saves them into one TXT file. How can I export them all together with the same parameters but save them separately in different output txt files?

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Sorry for my ambiguous reply; the currently-not-possible (also) referred to multiple file export to separate tab-delimited text files.

So, the options within ELAN are either file-by-file export or the multiple file export and then manually split the resulting text file into separate text files (based on the file name or file path column).

-Han

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yes, thanks. That is the only option left for me: to export into one file and then chop down the file into multiple files. Thanks.