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arborworkflows / ArborWebApps

A bundle of Tangelo applications used by NSF Arbor (Phylogenetic Comparative Methods system)
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Where do user uploaded files disappear when refreshing the screen #129

Closed bobthacker closed 9 years ago

bobthacker commented 9 years ago

I loaded several files into Sponge with the pencil clicked, used them a while, then refreshed and they are gone. How do we keep files in arbor and how do we make them public

curtislisle commented 9 years ago

Arbor implements a default behavior where files are maintained only in the browser whe first uploaded. This lets users drag & drop a file and run an analysis without having to save to a collection. To keep something permanent, click the pencil and select the dataset in the bottom left spin box and click “Save to checked collection”. Then once you are finished, a refresh to the browser deletes all the temporary datasets that the user didn’t want to save. It is true that sometimes temporary work is lost this way, but with a bit of discipline, nothing large is lost. We must have just not explained it very well before. Sorry about that.

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I loaded several files into Sponge with the pencil clicked, used them a while, then refreshed and they are gone. How do we keep files in arbor and how do we make them public

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bobthacker commented 9 years ago

OK, we see that now