On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 10:28 PM, Arthur Zheng <haoz021@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have downloaded and installed a local instance of galaxy on the linux
> server using my user account according to here:
> http://main.g2.bx.psu.edu/
>
> Then I ran the following command:
>> sh run.sh
> and accessed galaxy through the local firefox browser on the server
> http://localhost:8080
>
> Now I am trying to use some NGS files for FASTQ Groomer. Each file is in the
> server disk already, but very large (~8G each).
> I was not able to use the "upload file from your computer" function under
> the "Get Data" tab (maybe because each file is too large).
>
> What am I supposed to do?
>
> Thank you!
>
> Arthur

The method you tried "uploads" the file from your computer back to
itself - making a copy as it goes with lots of overhead. You should
probably consider the procedure here which allows you to avoid
even making a copy on disk but point at the existing files already
on the server:

http://wiki.g2.bx.psu.edu/Admin/Data%20Libraries/Uploading%20Library%20Files

Peter