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| Subject: | RE: [gislist] changing the source of data |
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06/04/2004 01:30:01 PM |
| From: |
Analisa Gunnell |
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Also, at the very start of making a new map you can make sure to set relative path names. You do this by opening a new ArcMap session, go into Files-->Map properties, click the Data Source Options button and then voila! Once you save your map, it will now only look to the immediate folders for the data:
Instead of this F:/Data/polit/citylim.shp it will store it like this .../polit/citylim.shp
I hope this helps!
Analisa Noel Gunnell GIS Technician II/Cartographer Ecotrust=20 721 NW Ninth Avenue, Suite 200=20 Portland, Oregon=20 97209=20 503.467.0750 analisa@ecotrust.org www.ecotrust.org www.inforain.org www.tidepool.org =20 CONSERVATION ECONOMY ECOLOGY-ECONOMY-EQUITY
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-----Original Message----- From: Tina Brister [mailto:TBRISTER@HARGIS.COM]=20 Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 11:03 AM To: michele@wildapache.net: gislist@lists.thinkburst.com Subject: RE: [gislist] changing the source of data
To begin, make sure all the files/folders for the project are contained in one project folder.
>From the Toolbar, Click on: >File >Map Properties >Data Source Options >Store Relative Path Names
Save Your Project. Copy that project folder to the other computer. All your data will source correctly.
-----Original Message----- From: Michele Mattix [mailto:michele@wildapache.net] Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 10:48 AM To: gislist@lists.thinkburst.com Subject: [gislist] changing the source of data
Hi Again List --
I have a question about sending (via email or ftp) an ArcGIS 8.3 map with all the files to someone who will be using a different computer. When I've done this in the past, I've had to go thru and tell the program, file by file, where the data are actually located, as opposed to where they were when the map was created. That is, if the data are all sitting on my hard drive under a folder called "data", then ArcGIS is going to look there for my files. If I were to email my project to someone, then ArcGIS will still continue to look on my hard-drive under the 'data' folder and I know of no other way than to go thru the properties for each file in my layer and change the source. Is there a quicker, better way? =20
Thank you.
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