Galaxy Doesn'T Detect The File When We Add Dataset To A Library Under Manage Data Libraries?

Question

[sachit.adhikari]

Hello Everyone,

We have found that, in Galaxy, when we add dataset to a library under Manage data libraries, Galaxy sometimes detects the type of the file and sometimes does not. What I have noticed is that it detects the type of the file when we select "Copy file into Galaxy" under "Copy data into Galaxy?" option and does not detect it when we select "Link to files ..." Is this a known issue? If it is, is there any workaround to solve the issue? Thanks

[Matt Shirley]

You might try asking this question at the Galaxy-Dev mailing list. To attempt an answer for your question: Galaxy has datatype "sniffers" that definitely run when you upload a file or copy a file to the data library. When linking to the files, Galaxy might not run these sniffers and therefore you might have to set the datatypes manually.