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title: How to Convert a Downloaded Protocol Design into a Settings File
description: "Here is what you have to do to use a downloaded design in one of your newly created folders: Do the following to create a settings file: Select the downloaded folder in Folder Selections. Press View or Change Settings / Read/Write a Settings File /…"
url: "https://brainmaster.com/kb-entry/id289/"
updated: "2025-12-03"
category: "Protocol Templates / Archive: BrainMaster 3.0 Series/Discovery and earlier Protocols Templates"
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# How to Convert a Downloaded Protocol Design into a Settings File

Here is what you have to do to use a downloaded design in one of your newly created folders:   Do the following to create a settings file:  Select the downloaded folder in Folder Selections. Press View or Change Settings / Read/Write a Settings File / Create a new settings file (type in name "4-channel percent ok with alpha enhance") Press OK twice Press "Save settings to this file" Press OK twice Now Go to Folder Selections and press "Create new folder" type in the name of your new folder Press OK twice Now when you get the list of settings file, "4-channel percent ok..." will be there.  I know it's confusing, I'm going to make this part simpler.  Actually, you can also create a settings file by using Windows Explorer ("My Computer") to go to c:\brainm.20\studies and find the study folder, then right click on it and select copy or cut, then to go c:\brainm.20\settings and paste the folder in.  What we need is actually a "create a new folder with these settings" button somewhere...  Tom    

> Yesterday, I upgraded to 3.2.2 and went to the knowledge base to download the new protocol of 4 channel percent ok with alpha enhance.  I clicked on it and now I can see the protocol in the “studies” folder but I do not see it when I create a new folder and want to read/write that design into that folder.  What am I missing?