Make a where_are_my_files.txt

[ewels]

In the rnaseq pipeline we save a text file called where_are_my_files.txt when the intermediate BAM files etc are not saved to results. Would be good to do that here too.

[maxulysse]

Not really sure I understand the point of that text file.
Can you elaborate a little more?

[ewels]

When intermediate files are not saved, we have empty directories with just logs and no Bam / FastQ files. Then users think that the pipeline hasn't worked and create bug reports. With this we just create a small file explaining this which gets copied into the results directory.

https://github.com/nf-core/rnaseq/blob/master/assets/where_are_my_files.txt
https://github.com/nf-core/rnaseq/blob/44f1525d7adfa3a6afcafdcf7730eca78a1a2511/main.nf#L489-L490

[maxulysse]

Oh I see!
Good idea