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

[josh.moore at gmx.de]

Shalin-

Shalin Mehta writes:
 > Yes escaping the backslash worked.

Great. Thanks for trying that out.

 > There is a typo in the windows installation guide that I noticed - the guide
 > asks to create a database named "omero" in postgres, whereas the
 > omero.properties expects a database named "omero3".

Thanks even more for catching the typo. The image has been updated.

 > Thanks
 > Shalin

Take care,
Josh

 > On Jan 29, 2008 2:29 AM, <josh.moore at gmx.de> wrote:
 > 
 > >
 > > 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
 > >