by Sethur » Sun Aug 02, 2015 9:56 pm
Hi Will & Simon,
thanks for you quick response. We are using 5.1.3, and yes, downloading individual files from the dialog is certainly a way around the 2 GiB limit. I agree that implementing the option of having extremely large ZIP files generated on the server side would have the potential of creating unsustainable overhead, so the limit is probably a good idea. However, the user needs to be aware of this limitation. There cannot be an option of creating a zip file if the predicted final file size is over 2 GB. Instead, there should be an option of splitting the download into a set of ZIP files (<= 2GiB) and raw data (potentially > 2GiB). These zip files should only be generated the moment the user actually requests the download to limit the maximum overhead.
Also: Multiple file uploads are no problem with current HTML versions, so is there any progress on importing via OMERO.web? I would really like to tell our users that there is no reason any more to use the Java client. Currently, manual upload, ROIs and multiple downloads is the only reason to use Insight.
Cheers,
Tristan