I'll try to see if I can reproduce it myself then. If so, I can try to
send you the files and/or any additional details I figure out.
And yes, it was on startup.
Thanks,
Patrick
On Oct 2, 2009, at 3:33 PM, Wayne Boucher wrote:
> Hello,
>
> For the life of me I cannot reproduce that problem. But I did find
> another bug which meant that the shift left was shifting all the
> directories instead of just the "top" one, so I've fixed that (I
> think).
>
> Did the problem below happen on start-up? Because you can also get
> at the same dialog, later, via the Experiment --> Edit Spectra
> dialog, in the Data Locations tab. Hopefully even if the start-up
> one messed up, you can fix it later.
>
> Wayne
>
> On Fri, 2 Oct 2009, Patrick van der Wel wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I tried to update the paths in a moved project (where the data also
>> moved). So I opened the project, and it popped up the window where
>> it asks for the locations of the datafiles (which were not where it
>> expected them).
>>
>> I noticed that this window nicely has the option to shift parts of
>> paths between relative and absolute, seemingly to allow a common
>> absolute path. This worked ok to some extent...
>>
>> I was able to shift various path segments from absolute to
>> relative, and then tried to update the absolute 'root' path to the
>> new location. Unfortunately, this worked fine for the first dataset
>> that used the common absolute path, but the next several datasets
>> seemed to have their relative paths default back to what it was
>> originally, before I shift parts of paths from absolute to
>> relative. As a result, the paths are now completely incorrect, and
>> largely missing.
>>
>> Strangely, this did work fine for some part of the datasets, and I
>> did not see any error messages on the console. I am sorry that I
>> don't really have a clearer description of what exactly went wrong,
>> but I am not really sure.
>>
>> Patrick
>>
>> PS. Schematically:
>>
>> original setup:
>>
>> ABSOLUTE RELATIVE
>> /nfsdrv1/path/path/path/path sub/sub/sub/data1
>> /nfsdrv1/path/path/path/path sub/sub/sub/data2
>> /nfsdrv1/path/path/path/path sub/sub/sub1/data3
>> /nfsdrv1/path/path/pathB/pathB sub/sub/sub1/data4
>>
>> Desired new setting:
>>
>> ABSOLUTE RELATIVE
>> /nfsdrv2/path/path/ path/path/sub/sub/sub/data1
>> /nfsdrv2/path/path/ path/path/sub/sub/sub/data2
>> /nfsdrv2/path/path/ path/path/sub/sub/sub1/data3
>> /nfsdrv2/path/path/ pathB/pathB/sub/sub/sub1/data4
>>
>> Actual new setting:
>>
>> ABSOLUTE RELATIVE
>> /nfsdrv2/path/path/ path/path/sub/sub/sub/data1
>> /nfsdrv2/path/path/ sub/sub/sub/data2 <==== incorrect!
>> /nfsdrv2/path/path/ path/path/sub/sub/sub1/data3
>> /nfsdrv2/path/path/ pathB/pathB/sub/sub/sub1/data4
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