> > this is always a huge issue with us since we work a lot in areas with very > poor or no internet connection thus projects have to be loaded on our > personal computers or external hardrives. > also when you give a session to a client you always have to go into the > project file and change the directory names.
Hey Syd, QGIS has the option (on by default) to save as everything as relative paths which is better to make projects portable - Nathan. On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 10:17 PM, Syd Visser <[email protected]> wrote: > Martin > > a general comment on > > “All references to files will be saved as absolute paths “ > > > why does things have to be absolute path especially if you eventually will > design for Geopackage that is suppose to simplify portability > > can the Path not be divided into two separate names > > 1) one that is easily changed like a computer home directory which changes > depending on computer used > > 2) project and all of its sub-directories that should not change > > this is always a huge issue with us since we work a lot in areas with very > poor or no internet connection thus projects have to be loaded on our > personal computers or external hardrives. > > also when you give a session to a client you always have to go into the > project file and change the directory names. > > QGIS is not the only program that has this issue and i never quite > understood why it was done this way maybe there is a explanation besides > its simpler for programers. > > thanks > > Syd > > > *Syd (Sipke) Visser, P.Geo.* > President, Snr. Geophysicist/Geologist > > Tel: 1 (604) 582-1100 > Cell: 1 (604) 813-1440 > [email protected] > www.sjgeophysics.com > > > <http://www.sjgeophysics.com> > On 2018-03-19 07:09 AM, Martin Dobias wrote: > > Hi everyone > > Here is a new proposal to add support for storage of QGIS projects > inside PostgreSQL (and possibly in other backends in the future): > https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/118 > > Any comments would be highly appreciated! > > Cheers > Martin > _______________________________________________ > QGIS-Developer mailing [email protected] > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > > > > _______________________________________________ > QGIS-Developer mailing list > [email protected] > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >
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