Are the first four lines of your file deliberately whitespace? This
will definitely cause problems for file type detection (it is not a
valid TSV file as is).

--
James Taylor, Assistant Professor, Biology/CS, Emory University


On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Chunyu Liu <liucsxx@gmail.com> wrote:
> hi,
> I had an odd problem today, seems not a problem before:
> I am trying to upload a simple tab-delimited text file into galaxy,
> but it kept telling me:
> empty
> format: txt, database: hg19
> The uploaded binary file contains inappropriate content
>
> Also, showed filesize as 0 bytes.
>
> I tried Unix format, DOS format. It is a very small data, only 348 bytes.
> 4 rows, as attached.
>
> What is WRONG?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Chunyu
>
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