Can't access drives other than boot drive; GUI location of preferences

[Daniel Mueller]

Reported by Joe Gurman:

"Just a minor issue: When I found "Preferences"under "Options" (perhaps a more natural place to look for Preferences under other OSes than OS X, which usually puts them under the application name's menu), I tried to set a default local directory on a drive other than my boot (system) drive.... and could not. The highest item in the directory hierarchy is the boot drive, not the machine, so I can't access any other drives. :-(

I guess everyone will be using this on laptops in the future, but wedded a I am to the steampunk of desktop systems (with, say, 24 virtual cores and tens of Gbyte of memory), it would be nice t put one's work area on another drive, maybe even an SSD."

[Andre Dau (andre-dau)]

I assume you are running Mac OS X. since under Windows and Linux there should be no problems.

Under Mac OS X:
All drives are mounted under /Volumes/. You can navigate there and then choose your hard drive

[Daniel Mueller (dmueller-esa)]

Hi Joe,

See below - I checked on my Mac, and the other drives are indeed accessible under <boot drive>/Volumes as, at least on my machine, <boot drive> is a symbolic link to / (not the most obvious place to look for other volumes, though). Does this work for you?

Best,
Daniel

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Andre Dau <email address hidden>
> Date: 17 November 2010 21:57:23 CET
> To: <email address hidden>
> Subject: [Bug 675950] Re: Can't access drives other than boot drive; GUI location of preferences
> Reply-To: Bug 675950 <email address hidden>
>
> I assume you are running Mac OS X. since under Windows and Linux there
> should be no problems.
>
> Under Mac OS X:
> All drives are mounted under /Volumes/. You can navigate there and then choose your hard drive
>
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> Can't access drives other than boot drive; GUI location of preferences
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/675950
> You received this bug notification because you are a member of
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> Status in JHelioviewer - JPEG2000 Visualization Software: Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Reported by Joe Gurman:
>
> "Just a minor issue: When I found "Preferences"under "Options" (perhaps a more natural place to look for Preferences under other OSes than OS X, which usually puts them under the application name's menu), I tried to set a default local directory on a drive other than my boot (system) drive.... and could not. The highest item in the directory hierarchy is the boot drive, not the machine, so I can't access any other drives. :-(
>
> I guess everyone will be using this on laptops in the future, but wedded a I am to the steampunk of desktop systems (with, say, 24 virtual cores and tens of Gbyte of memory), it would be nice t put one's work area on another drive, maybe even an SSD."
>
>

[Daniel Mueller (dmueller-esa)]

Joe,

Thanks for the additional information - we will try to find a solution!

Best,
Daniel

[Andre Dau (andre-dau)]

Hi,
is this problem solved?

Best,
Andre

[Malte Nuhn (malte.nuhn)]

What's the current status?

@Daniel: Could you forward the 'additional information' provided by joe?

[Daniel Mueller (dmueller-esa)]

Hi Malte,

Below is the info from Joe. As long as one knows that under OS X, other volumes that the boot drive are mounted /<boot drive>/Volumes/, one can access them, but as Joe says, it's not that intuitive. If you have a good idea on how to improve the access - great!

Cheers,
Daniel

> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> From: "Joseph B. Gurman" <email address hidden>
>> Date: November 18, 2010 19:23:34 GMT+01:00
>> To: "<email address hidden>" <email address hidden>
>> Cc: Bug 675950 <email address hidden>
>> Subject: Re: [Bug 675950] Re: Can't access drives other than boot drive; GUI location of preferences
>>
>> Daniel -
>>
>> Either my non-standard installation location (a folder within the /Applications folder) or something else is not providing me the same option. If I follow Options -> Preferences..., and double click on one of the folders listed as the defaults, I get the menu visible in the attached PDF. It goes no higher up the directory tree than the current volume (in my case, "HavenSATA").
>>
>> If I enter "/Volumes" in the blank filed labeled "File:," then yes, I can see other volumes mounted on /Volumes.
>>
>> You and Andre appear to be assuming that all Mac users likely to use jHelioviewer know that their internal, and USB and FireWire external, drives are mounted there. My guess is that a majority do not, which is why the standard presentation in Mac apps that offer a pulldown file navigation bar of this type is to include the "devices" sidebar (see attached example from another app), which also includes volumes mounted elsewhere, e.g. /Network or wherever else one might have a remote volume mounted.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Joe
>>
>> On Nov 18, 2010, at 7:29 AM, Daniel Mueller wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Joe,
>>>
>>> See below - I checked on my Mac, and the other drives are indeed accessible under <boot drive>/Volumes as, at least on my machine, <boot drive> is a symbolic link to / (not the most obvious place to look for other volumes, though). Does this work for you?
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Daniel
>>>
>>>
>>> Begin forwarded message:
>>>
>>>> From: Andre Dau <email address hidden>
>>>> Date: 17 November 2010 21:57:23 CET
>>>> To: <email address hidden>
>>>> Subject: [Bug 675950] Re: Can't access drives other than boot drive; GUI location of preferences
>>>> Reply-To: Bug 675950 <email address hidden>
>>>>
>>>> I assume you are running Mac OS X. since under Windows and Linux there
>>>> should be no problems.
>>>>
>>>> Under Mac OS X:
>>>> All drives are mounted under /Volumes/. You can navigate there and then choose your hard drive
>>>

On 19. 2.2011, at 22:58 , Malte Nuhn wrote:

> What's the current status?
>
> @Daniel: Could you forward the 'additional information' provided by joe?
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are a member of
> JHelioviewer Developers, which is subscribed to JHelioviewer.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/675950
>
> Title:
> Can't access drives other than boot drive; GUI location of preferences
>
> Status in JHelioviewer - JPEG2000 Visualization Software:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Reported by Joe Gurman:
>
> "Ju...

[Malte Nuhn (malte.nuhn)]

Not yet tested, but the stuff mentioned here might be a nice solution:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1356273/jfilechooser-for-directories-on-the-mac-how-to-make-it-not-suck

[Malte Nuhn (malte.nuhn)]

I changed the dialog from SWING to AWT - which works quite fine on Mac OS X 10.6.6 - see screenshot.

Still needs to be tested on all other platforms before this could be merged.

[Andre Dau (andre-dau)]

As soon as I fix the other bugs I will test JHV on Linux, Windows, Mac and tell you my results

[Malte Nuhn (malte.nuhn)]

Did anyone test this on windows etc.? I am currently preparing a "larger" commit including a fix for https://bugs.launchpad.net/jhelioviewer/+bug/804522 - so i'm really interested in testing this....

[Andre Dau (andre-dau)]

Hi Malte,
I just tried it on Windows and Mac. The open dialog looks fine. But the dialogs accessible from the preference pane still do not look good on mac os. Did you change them as well? If you do everything is fine then I think. Anything else I should try?