Referenced layers do not use relative paths if set in project properties

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Author Name: Andreas Neumann (@andreasneumann)
Original Redmine Issue: 4096

Redmine category:project_loading/saving
Assignee: Marco Hugentobler

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When saving referenced layers in a project and the project setting is set to relative paths, QGIS still writes the referenced project as absolute.

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Author Name: Andreas Neumann (@andreasneumann)

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• assigned_to_id was configured as Marco Hugentobler

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Author Name: Marco Hugentobler (@mhugent)

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Seems to work as expected

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• status_id was changed from Open to Closed

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Author Name: Gavin Fleming (@gubuntu)

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This does happen inconsistently and unexpectedly. Here is an example: This shapefile should have no path as it is in the same directory as the project file yet QGIS writes it as

<datasource>../../../../../Documents and Settings/Gavin/Documents/EdTechConf/data/rivers.shp</datasource>

...which of course will not open on another system.

In this case the project and data are on an NTFS mounted drive on a dual-boot system. Could it be something to do with the spaces in the path or referencing symbolic links vs actual paths?

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• os_version was changed from to 11.04
• operating_system was changed from all to linux