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When opening files across different operating systems, you may come across irrelevant files, often called Concealed, Hidden, And Forgotten Files (CHAFF). Want to learn how to identify and delete them before sharing your project? Keep reading!

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Prioritizing data management is essential for ensuring more effective, impactful, and responsible research. In collaborative projects, it is critical to clearly define the roles and responsibilities of all participants. Properly assigning these duties ensures that data is collected, stored, and shared in compliance with funders’ requirements, ethical standards, and best practices for data stewardship.

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Managing asynchronous contributions to multiple documents can be time consuming and cumbersome, especially in highly collaborative projects.

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To ease data management and make your research more shareable and reproducible, we suggest you organize your project folder following this basic structure.

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Adopting good practices for file naming prevents accidental overwrites or deletions, makes it easier to locate and access data, and prevents confusion if multiple people are working on shared files and folders.

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