[Qgis-user] Set relative path [QGIS 1.8.0 on Win XP]

[Raffaella Sanna]

Thank you all, I solved my problem.
I didn't know it was possible to open .qgs file in a text editor, great idea!
So I opened it, I change all datasources to C:, and I found that the path was set as absolute, despite I set "relative" path from project properties.
Bye,
Raffaella




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 Da: Jonathan Moules <jonathanmoules at warwickshire.gov.uk>
A: Raffaella Sanna <raffaellasanna at yahoo.it> 
Cc: "qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org" <qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org> 
Inviato: Giovedì 15 Novembre 2012 16:57
Oggetto: Re: [Qgis-user] Set relative path [QGIS 1.8.0 on Win XP]
 

Hi Raffaella,
I leave others to deal with absolute versus relative paths, however you 
can open the .qgis file itself in notepad and use search and replace to 
replace the paths that way. So search for E:\gis_folder\ and replace 
with "C:\newfolder\" for instance.Jonathan



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 Da: Andre Joost <andre+joost at nurfuerspam.de>
A: qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org 
Inviato: Giovedì 15 Novembre 2012 16:53
Oggetto: Re: [Qgis-user] Set relative path [QGIS 1.8.0 on Win XP]
 
Am 15.11.2012 16:27, schrieb Raffaella Sanna:
> Hi! I have some problem working with relative path.
> 
> My QGIS project is stored with a path like this:
> E:/GIS_folder/Qgis.qgs, and all GIS data are in
> E:/GIS_folder/DATA_folder, so project and data are stored in the same
> folder. I saved this project with relative path, from 'project
> properties' ->  'save relative path', but when I copy all the folder
> "GIS_folder" on another pc (on C: disk) and I open the project, all
> shapefiles are still linked to my pc (E:, not C:).

Rather strange. It should be exactly opposite. Are these projects created with an older Qgis version? If I remember correctly, absolute paths were default until Qgis 1.7.3.

What happens if you change the properties entry to "absolute"?
You can look into the project file with a text editor and look for <datasource> tags.

greetings,
André Joost


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