Renaming .zip files

Posted by Norbert Vischer-2 on Apr 13, 2011; 12:00pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Ubuntu-Run-single-instance-listener-tp3685025p3685026.html

I saved a stack as "stackA.zip" and renamed it in the OS X Finder to "stackB.zip". Maybe due to a bug, ImageJ ignores my renaming and re-opens the file as "stackA.tif" .

I wonder if .zip could become a "normal" file format, i.e. omitting the detour via '.tif' while the stack is open.

Generally it is desirable that file names correspond to image titles. Currently, problems occur when getFileList() should interoperate with those images that are open (also because ImageJ may change the titles by appending a numerical suffix like "-1" or "-2").

Norbert Vischer