[ome-users] OMERO 3-beta 2.3 install on windows XP 64 bit- repository

[josh.moore at gmx.de]

Shalin Mehta writes:
 > Dear OMERO users,
 > I just installed the server and client parts of OMERO on winxp 64 bit.
 > Things went fine with defaults - except one glitch: I want to change the
 > repository path to D:\OMERO\ rather than default C:\OMERO as D:\ has plenty
 > of space and C: is a system drive. I tried setting
 > "omero.data.dir=/D:/omero/"

Try:

  omero.data.dir=D:\\omero\\

It's necessary to escape the backslashes in Windows file paths when
entering them in a *.properties file.

 > in omero.properties after looking at pathnames thrown out by jboss. With
 > that setting (after reconfiguration of omero) I can login to the server via
 > webadmin but the server cannot identify the space. It displays 0KB as
 > available space. How should I specify the path to repository on windows?
 > 
 > PLUS,
 >  with default /omero/ option for omero.data.dir the server stores the files
 > on c:\ itself rather than c:\omero\!

Well, that's interesting. We'll have to look into that.

 > Thanks to the developers for great software,
 > hope it continues to expand

Nothing would please us more. And thanks for your patience.
Best wishes,
Josh