[Qgis-user] QGIS-User Digest, Vol 218, Issue 9

[Garth Fletcher]

I've had good luck with
   hiding the original folder/directory containing the files I'm moving 
(or just moving it wholesale)
   starting up the QGIS project
   when it shows the list of files it cannot find
     I select one and use Browse to find that file in its new location
    followed by Apply Changes

This generally results in it finding all the other missing files that 
share the same directory...

I'm assuming that Browse updates a "Path" that is then automatically 
used to check for other missing files.

Also, it **may** depend on QGIS being set to use
   Options - General > Project Files > Default paths: Relative rather 
than Absolute.
I always use Relative and have not checked the effect of Absolute.

Of course, the file names have to be UNchanged, but it seems to work 
very well when I relocate whole directories.


On 4/4/24 Tony Shepherd \(FarmMaps NZ\)" <tony at farmmaps.nz> wrote:
> I am sure I am not the first to ponder how to deal with this.  I have loads,
> thousands likely, of project files in a series of folders and subfolders.  I
> need to move those files and folders to a new location to enable other staff
> to use the project files and their associated shp files, geo packages,
> rasters etc.
> ...

-- 
Garth Fletcher