My frame changed halfway through. Have I ruined it?
No. Frames change in almost every project, and a frame that never changed usually means the data was forced into it. What matters is that you go back and recode consistently, and that the change and its reasoning are recorded.
This comes up on Qualitative Coding Support, where it is answered in the context of the work itself.
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