https://issues.qgis.org/https://issues.qgis.org/favicon.ico2015-10-18T06:49:56ZQGIS Issue TrackingQGIS Application - Bug report #13627: relative paths broken in 2.8.3https://issues.qgis.org/issues/13627?journal_id=646972015-10-18T06:49:56ZJürgen Fischerjef@norbit.de
<ul></ul><p>Can you provide sample data? Seems to work fine here. Eg. a project once saved with relative paths and once with absolute paths.</p> QGIS Application - Bug report #13627: relative paths broken in 2.8.3https://issues.qgis.org/issues/13627?journal_id=647062015-10-18T22:27:56ZGavin Fleminggavin@kartoza.com
<ul></ul><p>My QGIS writes this, with the path going back down to my home dir:</p>
<p><code><datasource>../../../../Documents/kartoza/Projects/2015/AgriTechnovation/repo/work/PPM/Bladspringer_week_18.tif</datasource></code></p>
<p>when it should be writing this:</p>
<p><code><datasource>../../work/PPM/Bladspringer_week_18.tif</datasource></code></p>
<p>2.8.3 local build from source.</p> QGIS Application - Bug report #13627: relative paths broken in 2.8.3https://issues.qgis.org/issues/13627?journal_id=647172015-10-19T00:39:12ZJürgen Fischerjef@norbit.de
<ul><li><strong>Status</strong> changed from <i>Open</i> to <i>Feedback</i></li></ul><p>Not reproducable here:</p>
<pre>
$ egrep "<qgis|datasource" Documents/kartoza/Projects/2015/AgriTechnovation/repo/1/2/*.qgs
Documents/kartoza/Projects/2015/AgriTechnovation/repo/1/2/abs.qgs:<qgis projectname="" version="2.8.3-Wien">
Documents/kartoza/Projects/2015/AgriTechnovation/repo/1/2/abs.qgs: <datasource>/home/fischer/Documents/kartoza/Projects/2015/AgriTechnovation/repo/work/PPM/Bladspringer_week_18.tif</datasource>
Documents/kartoza/Projects/2015/AgriTechnovation/repo/1/2/rel.qgs:<qgis projectname="" version="2.8.3-Wien">
Documents/kartoza/Projects/2015/AgriTechnovation/repo/1/2/rel.qgs: <datasource>../../work/PPM/Bladspringer_week_18.tif</datasource>
$ apt-cache policy qgis
qgis:
Installed: 1:2.8.3+git20151014+011109a+99unstable
Candidate: 1:2.8.3+git20151014+011109a+99unstable
Version table:
*** 1:2.8.3+git20151014+011109a+99unstable 0
500 http://qgis.org/debian-nightly-ltr/ unstable/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
2.8.3+dfsg-3 0
500 http://approx:9999/debian/ unstable/main amd64 Packages
</pre> QGIS Application - Bug report #13627: relative paths broken in 2.8.3https://issues.qgis.org/issues/13627?journal_id=664152015-12-19T09:40:37ZGiovanni Manghigiovanni.manghi@gmail.com
<ul><li><strong>Resolution</strong> set to <i>worksforme</i></li><li><strong>Status</strong> changed from <i>Feedback</i> to <i>Closed</i></li></ul><p>closing for lack of feedback.</p> QGIS Application - Bug report #13627: relative paths broken in 2.8.3https://issues.qgis.org/issues/13627?journal_id=680942016-02-10T22:32:39ZGavin Fleminggavin@kartoza.com
<ul></ul><p>the issue was that the layer was in a soft-linked directory. QGIS was following the link and storing the absolute path to the actual file and not the relative path to the link. I'm not sure if that is intended behaviour.</p>