HINT: Please do not use an installation path containing special characters like mutated vowel. Java use as standard UTF-8 character encoding, while translating special characters can lead into an error situation.
Which directories are created during installation are described in the README file. More important are the directories used during runtime of the application storing settings, log files and graphics templates.
As base directory the application is using:
At this start point for directories the following is used and created
This should enough as overview. Later in this document we will dive deeper in details.
How get the data organized which contains the measurement values. A root folder or directory needs to be defined (refer to preferences dialog), underneath each used device get its own data files folder. The device folder are the same as the chosen device names. In addition folder gets created for each created object. While saving the data an file name proposal according the configuration in preferences dialog will be displayed. As example Date_Object_Name.osd. Is there an relation of the saved to an object, an object is selected while saving, an file link gets created in the object folder pointing to the file in the device folder. File links only needs a few bytes disk space, since its only a relation to the data file. There is no duplication of data files. While opening object related files only this object files are visible. As example you will find the battery of object XY when its last time charged. A simple folder structure should give an better overview :
Hint: Since file links are operating system specific ther is a capability to clean up and re-create all file links (refer to preferences dialog). Moving your data to an different operating system is easy now.