<div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap:break-word">Hi Melissa,<div><br></div><div><div style="direction:ltr"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><blockquote type="cite">We are reviewing a fix for this now:<span> </span><a href="https://github.com/openmicroscopy/bioformats/pull/1687" target="_blank">https://github.com/openmicroscopy/bioformats/pull/1687</a><br>This will mean that disabling file grouping works as intended - the initialization time will be faster (~20x in local tests), but the only planes available will be those in the selected TIFF file.<br></blockquote><br>Just to be sure, this will disable the loading of several positions in the same dataset, but for dataset where one position must be split in several stacks (since micromanager still doesn’t handle bigtiff), all files will still be concatenated?…<br></blockquote><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important">Not quite - all file grouping will be disabled, so grouping of multiple </span><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important">files in a single position will not occur.  Each file from the position </span><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important">would need to be initialized separately.</span></blockquote></div><br></div><div>OK, I guess was mixing the « series » argument and the « disable grouping » argument…</div><div>Looking forward to 5.1.0!</div><div><br></div><div>Best, </div><div>Thomas</div></div></div>