Dear all,
I have a request to the developers of CCP4I. I find very bizarre and
potentially quite confusing that the default value for file paths is
not _strictly_ the project directory but, instead, any directory that
you happen to choose a moment before using 'Full-path', for instance
(see below). This is especially problematic with output files, of
course: you often simply write the name of the file (or worse, the
task interface writes it for you) in its corresponding place, without
paying attention to whether it goes to the project directory or
somewhere else. In fact, you, at least I, expect the files to go to
the project directory. But this may not happen if you chose a "Full
path" for a particular file five minutes ago or, like it happened
right now to me, if when you are creating a project you do this:
1) Click too fast and select a directory under the directory you
actually wanted
2) Realise your mistake
3) Delete in the directory line (that is, without clicking again
'Browse') the part that you didn't want
4) Open the project.
If you do such thing, the default value for input and output files for
this new project is... the directory you selected in step 1) and not
the one you wrote in step 3) What is more surprising is that the
project directory itself is all right: only the default path for input
and output files is wrong.
When you work with several projects at the time, as probably many
people do, this behaviour can result in a lot of mess. I know you can
always find the files through the CCP4I gui, but sometimes you want to
access to those files without having to open the interface.
It is OK to allow the user to choose a different path but I think this
should be a choice explicitly made by the user.
I think in previous versions this behaviour was not observed?
Happy new year to all!
Best,
Miguel
Disclaimer: I need holidays...
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