Hi Chunyu,

can you provide us with a small, reproducible example?

Thanks, Björn

Actually, the file is all tab-delimited, from beginning to end. It has no problem uploading larger data. Seems to be bug somewhere? Chunyu

On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 12:45 PM, James Taylor james@jamestaylor.org wrote: 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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Thanks! for fixing the problem before I get time to provide more test data.

Chunyu

On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Daniel Blankenberg dan@bx.psu.edu wrote:

Hi Chunyu,

Thanks for reporting this issue, it has been resolved in our stable branch and will be available on our public server after the next update.

Thanks for using Galaxy,

Dan

On May 12, 2013, at 10:52 AM, Chunyu Liu 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!

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