Output Folder Structure Cleanup

[yezr]

The current RCTab folder setup can be unintuitive for some users. We’ve added hashes and extra tabulate by slice options that can clutter the output folder. This ticket proposes a redesign to

• Make it simple and easy for all users to see directly the round by round results first, with the option to navigate to more info (logs, hashes etc.) second
• Distinguish more clearly .hash files from regular files
• Distinguish more clearly separate tabulations of the same contest

Some notes

• The top level output folder is still the one that is configured in RCTab.
• Each run creates a new YYYY-MM-DD_HH-mm Results folder as a child to the parent output folder. Though unlikely, we must protect against collisions if more than one tabulation is run on the same minute. A solution could be appending _run2, _run3 to the tabulation folder name for subsequent runs within the same minute.
• Open Results Folder button in RCTab after running tabulation should show the contents of the YYYY-MM-DD-HH-mm Results folder for that run
• Open to changing checksums folder name/location if it would be easier in code to standardize it e.g. making any hash go into a Checksums folder in the current location

[artoonie]

Thoughts on the root level checksums directory being YYYY-MM-DD_HH-mm Results Checksums instead of Checksums? That creates some consistency: all Checksums directories are [parent dir name] Checksums. Easier to code for one, as we don't need a special case, but I think also easier to parse for anyone automatically checking checksum code.

Also: thoughts on removing the space between the timestamp and "Results" in the root directory? Avoiding spaces in directory names is no longer necessary, but is still nice-to-have.

[yezr]

Thoughts on the root level checksums directory being YYYY-MM-DD_HH-mm Results Checksums instead of Checksums? That creates some consistency: all Checksums directories are [parent dir name] Checksums. Easier to code for one, as we don't need a special case, but I think also easier to parse for anyone automatically checking checksum code.

So the name of each checksum folder has the entire parent folder name in it? Sounds good to me

Also: thoughts on removing the space between the timestamp and "Results" in the root directory? Avoiding spaces in directory names is no longer necessary, but is still nice-to-have.

The timestamps use both - and _ to delineate it's parts. For me, it is nice to have something different, the space, to delineate the timestamp and the folder description.