Securing Your Data

If you make a mistake when working with your project  you can use NVivo's'Undo' function to undo (up to five) most recent actions . You can also use the undo function to try an action without keeping the results—this can be useful as qualitative research is by nature exploratory and creative.

NVivo optionally provides reminders for you to save at nominated intervals. It’s wise to keep these reminders frequent when a project is in very active phase of growth: later it may be safe to make the interval longer. Qualitative projects grow rapidly and often in unpredictable ways, so it is important to save your project frequently.

NVivo optionally provides confirmation messages before you delete items in you project.

It is useful to make frequent copies of your project, as you find that your analysis has altered your project considerably in a direction you now regret. Return to an earlier version to rework data or pursue an alternative analytical route.

NVivo provides two types of passwords for your project, read only and read/write.  If you want to prevent unauthorized access to your project, you can set the read/write password.  Also, you can provide a copy of your project for someone to review but not change by setting a read-only password for it.