Saving projects with relative paths

[gislab]

qgis works great on opening projects with relative paths to datasources, thanks to  https://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/1211 but then saving the project it converts links back to absolute, even the checkbox "save absolute paths" is turned off. Data (shapefiles) and project are in the same folder. Folder name contains spaces and Cyrillic characters.

[homann]

Fixed in r11360.

[lutra]

Sorry to have to reopen this ticket, but saving with relative paths seems not work any more, at least under Linux (testing under Ubuntu 9.04) with both qgis 1.3 from repos and 1.4 trunk compiled.

Made simple tests with shapefiles and when the "save absolute paths" is not checked the resulting project file has the paths in the form

./path/to/shape.shp

instead of

path/to/shape.shp

so when you try to open the project it misses to find the layers and ask you for the new layer location.

[jef]

Replying to lutra:

Sorry to have to reopen this ticket, but saving with relative paths seems not work any more, at least under Linux (testing under Ubuntu 9.04) with both qgis 1.3 from repos and 1.4 trunk compiled.

I wonder when this happend. Apparently that never worked on Linux.

Made simple tests with shapefiles and when the "save absolute paths" is not checked

if you can check "save absolute paths" you are using something < r11729. Which should have fixed this issue. Feel free to reopen, if it didn't.

./path/to/shape.shp instead of path/to/shape.shp

the ./ is perfectly fine. . is the current directory.

[lutra]

right, I didn't compiled in the last days and I tought it was already solved. Thanks.