[Gvsig_english] Re: Opening a gvSIG project on another

[Benjamin Ducke]

If you are on a Windows system, just search for the string "C:\" and you'll
quickly find the file paths. It should be easy to make sense of them.
Do yourself a favour and download PsPad. Window's notepad is just a toy,
not a useful text editor.

If you want to relocate the whole project structure, you need to remember,
that the absolute paths start at the root, which on Windows is a drive letter.
So if your files were on C: then they have to be placed on the C: drive
on the other computer, as well and you need to duplicate the ENTIRE folder
structure. If you move things to another folder, the paths will break!

Ben

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sal Garfi" <sal.garfi at btinternet.com>
To: "Users and Developers mailing list" <gvsig_internacional at runas.cap.gva.es>
Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 6:18:35 PM GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal
Subject: Re: [Gvsig_english] Re: Opening a gvSIG project on another



Hello Ernesto and Antonio, 

I take on board, Ernesto, what you say about editing the gvp file in, for instance, notepad. But I've opened it up and I have absolutely no idea where to start, so for the time being, I shall try to copy the 'absolute' file path of the project. 

Now, I did not take the shape files and the gvp file out of their folder and put them into a new folder. I copied the folder as it was on the first computer's C drive and placed it within another folder on the other computers. So, Antonio, what do I have to do to preserve the project's 'absolute' file path? Do I have to copy the very first file, on the C drive, that the project file is in? 

I'm sorry if I sound a bit confused, but I'm still unsure as to what I ought to do to remedy the situation. 

Kind regards, 

Sal 


----- Original Message ----- 
From: ernesto sferlazza 
To: Gvsig_internacional at runas.cap.gva.es 
Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 9:36 AM 
Subject: [Gvsig_english] Re: Opening a gvSIG project on another 


Hi Sal, 
If You cannot copy exactly the same folder structure (e.g., using windows O.S., in the other computer the drive could be "D:" instead of "C:"), an alternative choice to that suggested by A. Falciano is to edit directly the gvp file with a text editor, replacing the new paths to the old paths. 
Best regards 
Ernesto 

>Sal Garfi wrote: 
> Dear All, 
> 
> I've recently completed some work on a project on gvSIG. All of the 
> shape files and the gvSIG (.GVP) file were kept in a single 
> project folder on the C drive. I've copied the folder onto my data stick 
> with the intention of loading the project on to another computer which 
> also has the same version of gvSIG as I have. I created a folder on the 
> second computer's C drive and I copied the original project folder into 
> it. However, when I opened gvSIG on the second computer, and browsed for 
> my project folder, and opened the GVP file, the information console came 
> up with the message "User Error", and after I managed to close the 
> information console, my layers were in the table of contents, but they 
> couldn't be opened - their file paths were apparently broken. 
> 
> I tried this on another computer. I did not get the Information Console 
> with the 'User Error' message, but again, I had to reload all of the 
> layer files. 
> 
> Can anyone please tell me how I can prevent this from happening in the 
> future, since I will want to give completed gvSIG projects to colleagues 
> of mine without them having to reinstall every layer file. 
> 
> I look forward to some enlightenment. 
Antonio Falciano answered 
>Hi Sal, 
>this error is due to the fact that data in gvSIG are stored with 
>absolute path, so you have to copy exacty with the same folder structure. 
>Regards, 
>Antonio 


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