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No write access to directory where data is stored.
I am raising this issue, since it might help in building an (even) more user-friendly interface for the ismn package. For my setup, I have no write access to the directory in which the ISMN data is stored. The whole institute has read access, but only data managers have write access. Therefore, I get an error when the package is trying to create the metadata directory (python_metadata).
I see a few potential solutions (either on the side of the user, the package maintainer, or the data provider):
- Copy all the data (not a nice solution)
- Working with symbolic links pointing from my own directories to the data directory (not tested yet, but might work)
- Add the feature to ismn that the user can specify another directory where the metadata file can be written
- Supply the metadata file together with the data instead, only the paths need to be added in some way
Just some suggestions, I didn't think about them in detail yet, and maybe there are more. I hope it is useful feedback. It relates a bit to #9 .