Natalie,
What I do is manually edit the paths in the workspace file to make them
relative rather than absolute (ie .\data rather than c:\data). This means
that the files can be either run directly from the CD, or placed in any
other part of the directory structure on another machine, under a directory
from which you attempt to open the workspace.
To assist with this I normally use the following type of directory structure
for different mapping projects:
Project top directory e.g. d:\project
Mapping files d:\project\mapping
Client data d:\project\client_data
Topo models d:\project\topo
Workspaces d:\project\workspaces
...and so on.
Using this approach all of the paths in Workspace files can become
..\mapping or ..\client_data etc, which enables them to be transported
elsewhere without any problems.
This approach may not suite everyone but I've found it a good way of
organising data for one, and it makes a map very portable.
I edit the workspace with Ultraedit32 (I like Ultraedit because you don't
have to actually open the file to perform search and replace operations, and
you can run the same operation on multiple files). You need to re-edit
workspaces if you save them from Mapinfo because all of the relative paths
will be replaced by absolute ones again.
You also need to ensure that no table is set to editable when you write the
data to CD, just by making sure no edit boxes are ticked in the layer
control dialogue for any open map windows.
You can test the edited workspace simply by closing all files and re-opening
it. If you've made a mistake, don't despair - just re-edit the paths or
resort to the backup the editor creates - you haven't lost anything.
Data can then be written to CD or moved to another directory across a
network with no problems.
There are a couple of workspace manager programs about (like workspace
control from 4th Beach Software in Melbourne, Australia) that may make this
process even simpler, but I don't find the task onerous using the method
above.
Hope this helps
Andrew Waltho
Mining & Resource Technology
Brisbane Australia
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