new plots for Diss. Mostly AI gen. Few changes in actual codebase

Functions/saveDirectoryInfo.m

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+function outputFile = saveDirectoryInfo(directoryPath)
+% Save metadata for all files and subdirectories under directoryPath.
+
+directoryPath = string(directoryPath);
+
+if ~isfolder(directoryPath)
+    error("Directory does not exist: %s", directoryPath);
+end
+
+% Recursively list all files and subdirectories
+info = dir(fullfile(directoryPath, "**", "*"));
+
+% Remove "." and ".." entries
+info = info(~ismember({info.name}, {'.', '..'}));
+
+% Create an output filename in MATLAB's current folder
+[~, folderName] = fileparts(char(directoryPath));
+if isempty(folderName)
+    folderName = 'directory';
+end
+
+timestamp = datestr(now, 'yyyymmdd_HHMMSS');
+outputFile = fullfile(pwd, ...
+    sprintf('directory_info_%s_%s.mat', folderName, timestamp));
+
+% Save the path and directory information
+save(outputFile, 'directoryPath', 'info');
+
+fprintf('Saved information to:\n%s\n', outputFile);
+end