If I change a timeseries file, why doesn Rescan *.1D re-read it?
As you may have discovered, Rescan *.1D only reads new filenames, and won’t re-read data from filenames that it has seen before. This is a feature, not a bug. Really. As I recall my thinking at the time, the reason is that when you select a *.1D file to be an ideal, AFNI makes an internal copy of it (this happens at other places, too) – a copy is made because you are allowed to edit the ideal inside AFNI. So if the *.1D file were re-read after it was altered, you’d expect the internal copies (e.g., the one being plotted as the ideal) to be updated as well. But then AFNI would have to keep track of what functions have a copy of a now modified time series, and then update them. This would be too much like work. If you are repeatedly modifying a timeseries file (e.g., using waver), Rescanning, and deciding if it is acceptable, I would recommend renaming the new file each time (e.g., to elvis_1.1D, then elvis_2.1D, etc.).
