Hello David,

please see whether Data Libraries (http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Admin/DataLibraries/Libraries) with the file import (http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Admin/DataLibraries/UploadingLibraryFiles) and especially the Upload files from filesystem paths feature do solve your problem. It enables you to work with the datasets while keeping them untouched on the file system.

thank you for using Galaxy!

regards

Martin

On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 3:05 PM, David Hoover <hooverdm@helix.nih.gov> wrote:
Is there any desire to create a way in galaxy to browse local directories on the galaxy server itself?  Not the client machine running the web browwser, but the machine on which galaxy is running.  I've created a tool that allows a user to upload a single file from their own personal directory on the galaxy server into galaxy directly, without going through Apache.  However, this is very limiting.  It would be very helpful to be able to browse directories that are deemed accessible to the galaxy user, and before I begin trying to develop anything I'd like to know if there is any support for such a feature.

David Hoover
Helix Systems Staff
National Institutes of Health
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