[galaxy-user] Galaxy--upload data file

Hi,

I installed Galaxy locally, and just start to use it, and I want to use it to align my short reads with fastq format using Tophat. The first thing I need to do is uploading my data file. If the data is small then that's no problem, but my data is about 5G, so when I upload, it took very long time (it is still uploading). Is it normal? and could you let me know how long it will take? I think since both Galaxy and my data are on my local machine, it should be very easy to let Galaxy know where the data is rather than uploading for such a long time.

Thanks

Nan