[ome-users] Importing large image series and Cell^R data

[Roger Leigh]

On 21/05/2013 10:37, Colin Rickman wrote:

> On 15 May 2013, at 11:13, Roger Leigh <r.leigh at DUNDEE.AC.UK
> <mailto:r.leigh at DUNDEE.AC.UK>> wrote:

>> Can you reproduce the failure with a smaller series?
>
> I've tested this and I can with what seems to be any number of
> individual files. In all cases the importer states "imported 0 of 1" and
> sits scanning indefinitely. However, I did try entering the directory in
> the import window and selecting all of the individual tiff files (a
> 10,000 file subset) and after a long wait to start the importer stated
> "imported 0 of 10,000" and slowly started working through the files - it
> is currently just over half way through.

This sounds like progress, albeit slow.  If you have any sample plain
TIFF files like this you'd like us to look at WRT import speed, then you
can also upload these as a zip as for the other data, below.

> I've uploaded a test data set to the link above. I also tested uploading
> the same dataset to our OMERO server. The dataset consists of *.apl,
> *.mtb and *.tnb files which contain all of the metadata etc. In a
> separate subdirectory are the multidimensional tiff files. Importing the
> whole dataset sort of worked. In the example I sent you the resulting
> upload contained 16 image stacks (the correct number). However,  one of
> the .tif files was now given the *.apl file name and the metadata was
> not imported fully. All of the remaining .tif files had their cryptic
> name used by the database rather than their human understandable name
> given in the metadata. There were a couple of errors reported trying to
> access this dataset on the OMERO server and these have been reported
> under my email address.
>
> Hope that helps. Let me know what else you need to know.

Thanks for uploading the data, I've tested it with the current dev_4_4
development code, and I think I have reproduced what you've described.
I've opened ticket #10942
(http://trac.openmicroscopy.org.uk/ome/ticket/10942) for this issue.


Regards,
Roger

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