Re: Drag and drop not working as expected on Mac

Posted by JonNathan on Oct 31, 2016; 6:08pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Drag-and-drop-not-working-as-expected-on-Mac-tp5017500p5017510.html

Hi Wayne,

Thanks for looking into this.  The ImageJ home path did not have the issue you mentioned, so I don't think that's the problem, unfortunately.  I tried to move the app out of the folder and back anyway, to no avail.

A few more details: When opening multiple files via drag-and-drop, it always happens that two files less than the number selected get opened successfully (e.g. if 5 are dragged and dropped at once, only 3 get opened, and if 2 are dragged and dropped at once, none get opened), and there is an error message for the files that fail to open, e.g. "File not found: /Users/jnm/Desktop/test folder/Dot_Blot.tif/Users/jnm/Desktop/test folder/gel.tif".  I also noted the same issue with a different installation (Fiji) on the same computer using ImageJ 1.51g, so whatever is happening isn't necessarily associated with 1.51h13.

I also tried using a brand new installation of ImageJ on the same machine, with the same problem.  In this case the path randomization issue was there, but the problem remained after fixing it.

Jon