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| Subject: | Re: GISList: Relative Pathing/"Portable" Projects |
| Date: |
08/29/2001 10:01:41 AM |
| From: |
Pete Earls |
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Amin,
I have been pretty annoyed by this problem in the past because I would
work on the same project on different computers and thus had to work on
different drives and directories. I tried all the available scripts on
ESRI's ArcScripts web page a year or two ago and found the best option was
to use Project.Save at
http://gis.esri.com/arcscripts/details.cfm?CFGRIDKEY=-137862090
It's an Avenue script that replaces the absolute paths with relative
paths. It works great as long as all shapefiles and grids are in the same
directory as the project directory or in a subdirectory below the project
directory. It also backs up the full path version of the project into a
.abs file. After loading and compiling the script, change the name to
"Project.Save" to make it active when you click the Save icon on the
Arcview toolbar.
If your project uses extensions that do not come with ArcView, you can put
these in the project's directory and remove the path to the ArcView Ext32
directory at the top of the .apr file. I do this after I've initially
loaded the extension from the Ext32 directory to get the extension's name
into the .apr file.
Kudos to Joshua Lieberman for providing this script.
- Pete
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Peter Earls
Oklahoma State University
Stillwater, Oklahoma
earlsp@okstate.edu
phone: 405.744.8974
fax: 405.744.7841
On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Davis, Amin wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I posted this same question to another list-serve a couple of days ago
> but haven't received a response yet. I am using AV 3.1 and was wondering if
> there is a "relative pathing" option like w/ ACAD that allows AV
> projects(.apr) and associated files to be used on another network or
> stand-alone computer with AV installed. If not, what is the best way to set
> up my file directory structure so that I can deliver my project to an
> outside user without running into file referencing issues?
>
> Thank You,
>
> Amin D
> Raleigh, NC
> 919-782-5511
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