Posted by
Stein Rørvik on
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Issue-with-progress-bar-and-locking-files-when-saving-tp5023969.html
Hello,
I see an issue with the progress bar when saving large files on external drives, and wonder if anyone else experience the same:
When saving a large TIFF file, say 5GB, onto an external drive, the ImageJ progress bar runs to completion suspiciously fast (about 3 seconds).
When it is "finished", the file-size is shown in the Windows as having its full size, but the file cannot be renamed or moved from there.
Also, there is no slice scroll bar at the bottom of the image in ImageJ, indicating that the file is still locked by ImageJ.
When the expected number of seconds for a complete save has elapsed (about the same number of seconds or minutes it usually takes to copy the file to or from the disk in question) the file is unlocked both in ImageJ and Windows explorer and can be moved and/or reopened showing its normal contents. So the file locking works as it should; it is the progress bar that is wrong.
I see this only happen when using external hard-drives; that is, directly connected to the PC via USB.
On internal disks this does not happen. Neither when saving to networked disks. The progress bar elapses correctly here.
So there seems to be a miscommunication between the OS and ImageJ when saving files to removable disks, giving the wrong progress bar speed.
This is a bit annoying when saving very large files (several tens of GB) as you have no indication to how long the file saving will actually need to complete.
I am using Windows 10/64, but the problem also occurs in Windows 7/64 and using older versions of ImageJ, and Fiji as well.
Stein
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