It happened that the data from several participants was not written to the spss file in the data folder. (I suspect this happened because I edited this spss file in spss for mac and then copied it back to the pc with medialab on it.) So, when I ran my experiment, I realized that the data from these participants was not written to the spss file, but WAS written to the excel version. However, I have about 700 variables, and the excel file is truncated. I was only able to extract some but not all of the data I need, because about 150 variable I need were not in the excel file.

is there any other "secret" place where MediaLab logs data? I would like to be able to recover the data that was not written to the spss file, if possible.

thanks!

ps. I trashed the unwritable spss file and ran a mock trial and the new spss file is created and works. but it would mean a lot to me to get the "lost" data back.