About filesets

Echoview uses filesets to manage groups of data files. The fileset is also used to manage the modification of calibration settings applied to the data. This is achieved by using an ECS file, that is added to the fileset.

Filesets and EV files

An EV file can contain a single fileset or multiple filesets of added data. You will find multiple filesets useful if you work with:

Echosounders or logging software, such as the Simrad BI500, that log data from multiple transducers into separate data files.
Data logged from multiple echosounders at the same time.
Text data file to added to the EV file.
Unrelated video files.

Filesets and data files

Each fileset can contain a single data file or multiple data files. The following rules apply:

A fileset may contain data files of a single type (file extension) only.
Note: HTI .smp files for HTI data are an exception to this rule.
All .ek5 files in a fileset must be associated with the same type of echosounder.
Some files types require that related data files are available for Echoview to read. In particular, see:
Filenames and file ordering are inter-related. See Ordering of data files for more information.

Note: In previous versions of Echoview, the first fileset was named the Primary fileset. From Echoview 4.00 onwards the first fileset is named Fileset1.

About filesets

Filesets and EV files

Filesets and data files

See also