[ome-users] win7/win10 importer: cannot select tif in hidden folder

[MEYENHOFER Felix]

Hi Dominik 

thanks for looking into this and for changing it in the future release. 

Best regards, 

Felix

> On 17 Mar 2017, at 15:11, Dominik Lindner (Staff) <d.lindner at dundee.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> Hi Felix,
> 
> I had a look in the code, and there it is deliberately prohibited. But I can't see a reason for it.
> I'm going to fix that for 5.3.1 (unfortunately it's too late for 5.3.0 which is going to be released soon).
> And yes, it is the hidden attribute. So for now, the only workaround would be to remove this attribute
> from the folder, if possible.
> 
> Regards,
> Dominik
> 
>> On 16 Mar 2017, at 11:19, MEYENHOFER Felix <felix.meyenhofer at unifr.ch> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi
>> 
>> we got some problems with the OMERO importer: We got an old TEM microscope that used that universal software iTEM. This uses some database and stores the tif-images in a hidden folder. I can import those images with a OMERO 5.2.2 ice35 client on OsX without problems. But with the same clients on win7/10 I can select the tif images but the arrows in the middle of the UI stay inactive (gray). So effectively I cannot select those images with the importer.
>> I there is a screenshot of the UI under the following link: https://drive.switch.ch/index.php/s/9vV5l3tDYwum1oj
>> 
>> I figured out that it is actually the Windows file attribute 'hidden', that causes the importer not wanting to let me select those files. Is this intended UI behaviour?
>> 
>> Best,
>> 
>> Felix
>> 
>> 
>> 
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