Windows: Unable to import DICOM files that are in a OneDrive-backed up folder

fedorov
Tue, 14 May 2024 22:33:02 +0000
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TL;DR: on Windows, do not use folders that are backed up by Microsoft OneDrive for DICOM images that you want to import into Slicer DICOMBrowser!

@vkt1414 and I have been debugging an issue that we thought is a problem with our extension, but upon further investigation it turned out the issue was not in the extension. Logs showed that DCMTK failed to open the DICOM files our extension was downloading. Initially, I thought this is due to the presence of dots in the folder hierarchy, but @pieper mentioned there were some recent OneDrive issues.

After that I discovered (since I do not use Windows very often) that OneDrive indeed was active on the computer where I did testing. Further, it had backup of my Desktop and Documents folders enabled, and that it was not possible to disable backup of those folders.

Upon disconnecting my computer from OneDrive, closing OneDrive, and moving my data folder to a different location, I was able to import the files without problems.

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