AIM uses three directory trees:
TIFF directory: All image file names in the AIMProjectsXML formatted files which are not absolute file names are relative to this directory. No specific structure of subdirectories is required.
Work directories: For each project a subdirectory of the work directory holds the AIMGriddingXML formatted result files.
Metadata directories: Each project has a subdirectory in this tree which holds files containing print layouts, classifiers etc.
Data for each project are splitted up since required storage space and backup policies are very different for raw data, generated quantitation results and metadata.
The default values for the directory prefixes are stored in the system configuration data file. All tools use the following scheme to look up the prefixes:
If options -t or -w are given, set the tiff- or work-directory prefixes to the respective argument value.
Look for the users system configuration file in $(HOME)/.aimprojectsgui.xml and read the path prefixes from there if it exists.
Look for the global system configuration file in $(prefix)/share/aimprojectsgui.xml and read the path prefixes from there. $(prefix) is the directory where the AIM system has been installed to (--prefix argument of the configure script in the AIM library package).