Re: Can't load images from remote directory
Posted by
Gabriel Landini on
Mar 03, 2009; 12:16pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Can-t-load-images-from-remote-directory-tp3693495p3693502.html
On Tuesday 03 March 2009 11:16:21 Michael Doube wrote:
> I've been trying to drag and drop image stacks from a Windows share
> (Samba) straight into ImageJ. This works fine in Win XP, but fails in
> Ubuntu. ImageJ complains:
>
> File not found:
> /home/mdoube/smb:/my_shared_computer.ic.ac.uk/mysharename/path/to/imagedire
>ctory/
>
> In Ubuntu, shares are mounted in the user's home directory under .gvfs/
> as, for example, ~/.gvfs/mysharename on my_shared_computer.ic.ac.uk/
>
> Is this a bug in IJ, in the JRE or in Ubuntu / GNOME?
>
> Mike
Hi Mike,
I am pretty sure that this problem is of the same nature as this one:
http://imagejdocu.tudor.lu/doku.php?id=problem:linux:cannot_drop_files_into_the_imagej_window_in_kde_4.xi.e. the colon in smb: makes it fail.
Cheers
Gabriel