[ome-users] Files duplicated in .lif DropBox import

[Will Moore]

Hi Harri,

Colin (the drop-box guy) is away this week, but in the meantime...

  This sounds like it might be related to the way that BioFormats  
tries to understand multi-image file formats.
For example, if you use the importer to choose a single image from a  
multi-image format (E.g. a single LSM file from a .mdb collection)  
then BioFormats works out that this image is part of a larger set and  
attempts to import all the images. If you choose E.g. 2 LSMs that are  
part of the same collection, then all the images in the collection  
would get imported twice.
We have a ticket to address this issue:
http://trac.openmicroscopy.org.uk/omero/ticket/3701

However, that shouldn't be a problem with LIF files, since everything  
is in one file, right?
It could be something else that is causing duplicate imports.

One thing you could try:
If you have a lif file that has more than 2 images, do you get a  
corresponding multiplication of the imports?
E.g. Does a lif file with 3 images result in each image being imported  
3 times??

This would help us narrow the problem down a bit, at least until Colin  
is back,

  Thanks,

  	Will.


On 14 Jan 2011, at 12:01, Harri Jäälinoja wrote:

>
> Hello all,
>
> I noticed that when I imported a big .lif file that contained a  
> stack and a single image, both of these were duplicated in the OMERO  
> server. I see both of them twice in the OMERO.insight and in /OMERO/ 
> Pixels.
>
> The duplication did not happen when I imported a .lif that contained  
> only one stack. These two are the only imports I have done so far,  
> so I don't know if the file content is the key.
>
> Where should I look to figure out why the data was saved twice in  
> the first case?
>
> Best regards,
> Harri
>
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