What happens if a batch analysis is interrupted?

[Mattk70]

If I have analysed some files and then open them again together with others and click on ‘Analyze all open files’, will the already analysed files be skipped? I had to interrupt the process because not everything was analysed overnight. I also wondered whether there were files that were only partially analysed because of the interruption. Would these also be skipped afterwards when analysing all files? I hope the question is clear enough!

[Mattk70]

Good question!
TLDR: It's best to rerun the analysis from scratch after aborting and save these results before making edits to the detections.

If you interrupt an analysis (close the app, or hit escape) then on re-analysing, all the files will be analysed again from the start.
If you interrupt the analysis and then save results, if I remember correctly, any of the files with any results in will be marked as processed. Chirpity won't know whether the whole file was processed or just a bit of it. Files with no results will not be marked as processed. That's because the file is only recorded when a result from it is saved. N.B. The reason you can adjust the confidence / change the list after analysis is because during analysis, all results with a confidence > 15% and using the everything list are saved (unless you chose a lower confidence when running the analysis)

If you open only processed/saved files, you can retrieve all the results from the analysis (but some files might not have been fully processed if you interrupted the analysis). If you open a mix of processed and unprocessed files, you won't be able to retrieve the results. If you want to know which weren't processed and which were, you'll need to use the file container menu to pick each file individually, and note that the ones that get rendered in blue have been processed.

What happens if you re-process files that were already saved, you might wonder? Well, the analysis will give you a fresh set of results. If you save those results, none of the previously saved results will be overwritten. That means if you'd added labels, comments or confirmed a species, these changes will be unaffected. BUT this does mean that if you add labels, comments, etc to the fresh detections for saved files without first saving these results, your edits will be lost when you save to the archive. The only exception to this is if you change the species ID.