On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Agustin Lobo <agustin.l...@ija.csic.es> wrote: > Magnus, > > Maybe there is a simpler, temporary workaround that would make > users lives easier on this regard. When QGIS does not find > a layer as stated in the qgs project, the user could have the > choice of modifying the path that is going to be searched for that > given layer and for the rest of layers. Note that, in 99% of the > cases, the problem arises when the layers are in a portable > disk that has been mounted on a different computer and gets > a different path (i.e., in windows yo would have G:\mylayers > instead of F:\mylayers and on linux you would have > /media/transcend/mylayers instead of /disk/transcend/mylayers). > So just a box to be optionally clicked stating "Upgrade default > path according to browsed layer" (or something like that) in the same dialog > in which the user is prompted to browse for the layer would > not be the optimum solution but a very good one.
Maybe the simplest way would be to add a checkbox "Save with relative paths" to file dialog when saving a project. The paths to layers will be automatically saved relatively to project's directory. This might need probably some heuristics on determining whether layer's URI is a file but seems like a simplest option, since when moving the files anywhere, it should "just work". (my two cents) Martin _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
