[OpenSPIM] Fwd: Re: unwanted extra files auto-saved

[Luke Stuyvenberg]

Sorry, forgot to reply to the list as well!

Luke

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Subject: 	Re: [OpenSPIM] unwanted extra files auto-saved
Date: 	Fri, 10 Jan 2014 09:34:37 +0100
From: 	Luke Stuyvenberg <stuyvenberg at wisc.edu>
To: 	Dr S. Hoehn <S.Hoehn at damtp.cam.ac.uk>



Stephanie,

The files you refer to are saved by the anti-drift feature to give system operators some idea of the sample's drift over time. Unless saving to a slow hard drive or over a network, their creation really shouldn't cause a timeout; this may not be the cause of your errors. Still, I agree that the saving of these images should be optional; I'll add a ticket to our bugtracker and attend to it as soon as I have time.


Device timeouts usually occur with either low stage velocities (1-3) or deep stacks (500+ um?): the stage motors spend too long moving from one location to another, and Micro-Manager assumes they've stopped working. Please try enabling the "Override Timeout" feature. The checkbox is located on the bottom of the Acquisition tab; check the box, then enter a new device timeout in milliseconds. The default is 5000ms; try increasing this to 15000 or so. (I often use this feature when imaging as insurance against these errors.)


Hope this is helpful!


Luke

On 01/09/14, "Dr S. Hoehn"  wrote:
> dear open spim users,
>
> i am using the spim at cambridge university and am facing a problem with my time-lapse experiments.
> since i last updated the software, an extra folder is automatically saved in addition to the wanted z-scans. the folder is called "diffs" and contains subfolders named e.g. "XYZ4366.50x1479.00x588.00_Theta0.00". the subfolders contain 3dimages as tiff-files. since this happens, the time-lapse is regularly abborted and i get an error message saying "device timed out".
> does anyone know how to disable the autosaving of these extra files? i couldn't find it anywhere.
>
> thanks a lot and best wishes,
>
> stephanie
>
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