[OpenSPIM] First SPIM image! and new acquisition problem: writing to disk

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi Aurelia,

On Tue, 8 Oct 2013, Aurelia Honerkamp-Smith wrote:

> Sorry, I have been asking a lot of questions lately,

There is really no reason to be sorry about that. Scientists have a track
record of lacking the desire to communicate effectively, so I enjoy very
much that you are an exception!

> but I have at least one more today.  I can now acquire a stack, but only
> if I leave the Output directory field blank (I attach a projection of my
> first SPIM image, which I'm very happy about).

This is a really awesome picture! Would you mind uploading it to the wiki
and adding it to the gallery? I can help you with that should there be any
problems.

> If I put in a directory, then when I push Snap nothing happens.  It
> doesn't seem to matter which folder I use, and there's no entry in the
> core log.

Could you copy the ImageJ-win32.exe in OpenSPIM.app/ and rename the copied
file to debug.exe and run that? This should give you a console output (I
strongly suspect an exception to occur, which I would be really eager to
see, maybe you could copy/paste it into a reply?).

> If it's a non-empty directory, I do get a message warning me that any
> OME-tiff files will be deleted, but after I dismiss the message nothing
> happens once more.

It is probably the same issue in that case.

> Has anyone had a problem like this before?  Could it be Windows 7 related?

Quite possibly. But I can only guess without having a glimpse at the
console output.

Ciao,
Johannes