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Hi, I just created a fresh project with current 2.18.4 yesterday, and sent it to a client with the shape files next to it, (and was afraid that I hit this bug...).

So I just checked the .qgs file, but I see: <datasource>./mylayer.shp</datasource> in the xml.

It was a fresh project, and I have default 'relative paths'...

I have a yesterday fresh compiled 2.18.4, which in the checkbox says:
QGIS code revision 2ccdac770b

So is there a certain thing you did? To have this?

Richard Duivenvoorde wrote:

Hi, I just created a fresh project with current 2.18.4 yesterday, and sent it to a client with the shape files next to it, (and was afraid that I hit this bug...).

So I just checked the .qgs file, but I see: <datasource>./mylayer.shp</datasource> in the xml.

It was a fresh project, and I have default 'relative paths'...

I have a yesterday fresh compiled 2.18.4, which in the checkbox says:
QGIS code revision 2ccdac770b

So is there a certain thing you did? To have this?

Hi Richard,
yesterday when I first checked and replied in the dev ML I wasn't able to replicate.

The tested again and again in Windows with both 2.18.4 and master and with first I regularly only got absolute paths regardless the project configs. This was never the case on master.

We too have problems with relative paths becoming absolute paths.

Some background:
Several people access a QGIS-project with relative paths for some datasources.
All of them use linux (Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04) but use different methods of mounting the project directory from a samba share so the basepath is different on each computer.
Some use the gvfs mechanism from Ubuntu and others use mount with autofs. The used QGIS-Versions are 2.18.4 and 2.18.5.

We observe that sometimes relative paths become absolute paths in this scenario but unfortunately we have not found a reproducable test case yet.
This [1] Question with answer may be related, too. The solution offered there seems to work for our broken QGIS-projects.

[1]: http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/210992/relative-path-not-working-in-qgis

Alexander Bruy wrote:

Seems works fine in 2.18.6

Alex this is tricky, not easy to replicate. I have seen this lately too, also on 2.18.5, possibly .6.

Try open a project with a few file based layers, and check the .qgs file if it has absolute paths.

Hi all,

I am able to reproduce the problem using the "Save As" feature, as described in https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/210992/relative-path-not-working-in-qgis

_It seems that the the relative path for a shp file will be changed to an absolute path after the project file is "saved as" a new project file. (see images below).

[...]

After saving the current QGIS project file as a new file, you MUST press the SAVE button so as to confirm that the relative path is registered in the project file. Otherwise, the absolute path will be used._

I am currently using QGIS 2.18.7 (64bit Windows 10) but was also able to reproduce using 2.18.3.

Paul Henshaw wrote:

I am currently using QGIS 2.18.7 (64bit Windows 10) but was also able to reproduce using 2.18.3.

My colleague confirms that the behaviour is the same using 2.18.7 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (64bit).

This issue can be produced in master revision 313ec55640adf3696d8b7554cc6d9b7fc319c2df

Do I assume if I pull the zip file from https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/tree/913527b4c95dce5f0bc3c6def52c29f6341cec39 that I will get the fix to this problem.

yes

That one is 2.18, I need the version of master that has that fix incorporated.

Patrick Dunford wrote:

This issue can be produced in master revision 313ec55640adf3696d8b7554cc6d9b7fc319c2df

if is not fixed in master then a new (regression) ticket must be opened. Thanks.

See also #17824