spaces in path with Bioformats

Posted by Aryeh Weiss on Jul 08, 2014; 9:14am
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/spaces-in-path-with-Bioformats-tp5008616.html

I have an external disk whose designation includes spaces. I am running
OSX 10.9.
I find that the spaces in the path cause the BIo-Formats macro
extensions to fail,
I tried escaping the spaces, as in:

newInputPath = replace(inputPath," ", "\\\\ ");
Ext.setId(inputPath);

and I tried enclosing the path in square brackets, as in:
Ext.setId("["+inputPath+"]");

but neither of these worked.

As a workaround, I set up a symlink to the mount point, and then
replaced the path, as in:
if (indexOf(inputPath,"Seagate Expansion Drive") > 0) {
     inputPath = replace(inputPath, "Seagate Expansion Drive", "seagate");
}


and this works fine, but it is a hack.

I prefer one (or both) of two options:

1. Get the extensions to accept the original path with spaces.
2. Get OSX to mount the disk by default with a mount directory whose
name does not include spaces.

The second option is not about ImageJ, but maybe there are people on
this list who knowhow to do that.

Thank in advance for your help.

--aryeh

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Aryeh Weiss
Faculty of Engineering
Bar Ilan University
Ramat Gan 52900 Israel

Ph:  972-3-5317638
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