Re: order of file names

Posted by Wayne Rasband on Jan 19, 2008; 2:38am
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/order-of-file-names-tp3697524p3697527.html

This bug is fixed in ImageJ 1.39q, due next week. ImageJ opens  
dragged and dropped folders using File>Import>Image Sequence, but, in  
earlier versions of ImageJ, the "Sort Names Numerically" option was  
not enabled.

-wayne

> This is really frustrating - but I have 3 folders
> cy2
> cy3
> cy5
> and in each folder there are 40 files in the form of NAME_#_CHANNEL
> where "channel" is either cy2, cy3, or cy5 and # goes from 1 to 40.
>
> So I drag the folder onto imageJ and it asks me if I want to open all
> the files in a stack.
>
> That is exactly what I want to do.
>
> I do this for all three folders - and the file order is not the same
> between the stacks.
>
> What aspects of a filename dictate the file order?  Considering  
> that hte
> file names are exact and only differ by the tag on the end - is there
> anything I can do?
>
> The only solution I have found is to open the folder and highlight all
> the files and drag them all onto imageJ.  Then run Convert Images  
> to Stack
> I repeat this with the 3 folders and then I have 3 stacks with the  
> same
> file order.
> But it would be far more convenient to not have to do this.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> John
>
>
> PS - I am running Suse linus 10.2 with ImageJ 1.39J and java 1.6.0
>
> This problem has been occurring with all previous ImageJ versions and
> previous Java versions.
>