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| Subject: | RE: [gislist] changing the source of data |
| Date: |
06/09/2004 06:00:02 AM |
| From: |
Richard Nicoll |
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An alternative to using this option is to zip up all your data and map
files, ensuring you have checked the 'save full path info'. You can
then turn the .zip into .exe (self extractor) and with a double-click it
will unpack on the host machine to the same location (it will make the
folders for them).
A nice feature of this method is that you can even include a shortcut to
the MXD to appear on the desktop, making it a very easy process for your
host.
Rich
-----Original Message-----
From: gislist-bounces@lists.geocomm.com
[mailto:gislist-bounces@lists.geocomm.com]On Behalf Of Analisa Gunnell
Sent: 04 June 2004 19:27
To: Tina Brister: michele@wildapache.net: gislist@lists.thinkburst.com
Subject: RE: [gislist] changing the source of data
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
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Portland, Oregon
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-----Original Message-----
From: Tina Brister [mailto:TBRISTER@HARGIS.COM]
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?
Thank you.
Michele
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