[Qgis-user] Making QGIS Project Directory Independent?

[Bruce, Bob (CON)]

Thanks Ramon, this worked great. I can see us now moving to distribute all of out data through the internet with QGIS project files, particularly since with saved Style files we can easily set up styles and apply them to layers in a project, this makes creating QGIS projects so much easier.

Bob Bruce

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Sent: September-26-11 8:16 PM
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Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Making QGIS Project Directory Independent?

On 27/09/2011, at 8:20, "Bruce, Bob (CON)" <Bob.Bruce at gov.mb.ca> wrote:

> Does anyone know how I can remove the directory path from layers in a QGIS project and have QGIS find the files for a project in the same folder as the project file?
> 
> I would like to distribute projects to end users and not have them prompted for the file locations if the data files are in the same folder as the project file but that folder is not in the original location that is was when the project was created.
> 
> Thanks,
>             Bob Bruce

If everything is in a fixed relative position to the project file, then you could set the save paths project property in the general tab to relative. 

Should be ideal for this task. 

> 
-ramon.
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