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Synaptic segmentation and visualization with fluorescence microscopy
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Windows version saving request #29

Closed BDemps closed 7 years ago

BDemps commented 7 years ago

Currently, the files that are saved in the Windows version are automatically dumped to the C: drive. Would it be possible for the user to choose (maybe when starting the launcher for the first time) where they would prefer to store the images, in case the user's C: drive is mostly full?

karlcz commented 7 years ago

I think that you can modify the cache_dir location in the .deriva/synapse/synspy-launcher/config.json configuration file. This by default is configured as a folder under your home directory (that's what the ~ represents). Try changing it to a full path so it might look something like:

{
   "cache_dir": "D:\\your\\folder",
   "server": ...
}
karlcz commented 7 years ago

whoops I forgot that backslashes will be awkward with this JSON formatted configuration... you might try forward slashes or else doubled up backslashes:

"D:/your/folder"

"D:\\your\\folder"

because \\ represents an escaped \ in the JSON format of the configuration file...

karlcz commented 7 years ago

heh I had to update my previous comments again... I don't really speak Windows and forgot how their paths looked

karlcz commented 7 years ago

I think @mikedarcy is also adding GUI support to edit this setting from within the app.

mikedarcy commented 7 years ago

I've added a directory browser button in the options page of the GUI. You can use this to change the download cache dir. The change is persistent so you should only need to do it one time in order to change the path. Note that you must be logged in before the options button becomes enabled.

Added to release: https://github.com/informatics-isi-edu/synspy/releases/tag/v20170713.7