Illegal character error

[ewestlundicr]

Hi,

About six months ago I set up a script using Bigstitcher which worked great. Now, I'm trying to use it again but I'm getting an error.

When trying to run the steps manually the first Define Dataset works but when trying to do "Calculate pairwise shift" (or when trying to load a dataset) I get:
Cannot parse 'file:/C:/Users/ewestlund/dataset.xml': java.nio.file.InvalidPathException: Illegal char <:> at index 2: /C:/Users/ewestlund/dataset.xml

From my understanding it's the : character that causes an issue, but any path on the PC will have this included. How can I work around this?

Thank you very much

[ScientistRachel]

This is just a note to say that I am getting the same error. I agree that it seems like any Windows path would not be accepted by this new version, so a fix for this would be helpful.