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shoose
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April 2, 2015
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Frame 12 converting relative paths to absolute paths

  • April 2, 2015
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Hi all,

We recently upgraded to Frame 12 and now have a persistent issue with relative paths to referenced images becoming absolute.  These paths do not traverse a drive and so I believe Frame should be maintaining a relative path for these. In most cases -- perhaps in all, although I have not done exhaustive testing --  the problem paths are for images on a master page.

Any idea why this might be occurring and what we can do to fix it?  Our docs team shares files checked out from a server, and each time one of us opens a document, it has an absolute path to a location on another writer's computer.  We each maintain the exact same directory structure for all Frame/image files, and again, the path to the problem images is local and does not traverse the C drive.

Thanks in advance,

Shelley

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    Bob_Niland
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    Bob_NilandCommunity Expert
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    April 2, 2015

    May or may not be relevant, but do the affected relative paths need to traverse the root directory of the logical drive?

    I seem to recall, in experiments some years ago on FM7.1, that the final /../ needed to be at least one level down.

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    shooseAuthor
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    April 2, 2015

    Bob -- The paths don't traverse a root directory.  However, the image is not below the Frame docs; it is above -- but it does not cross the root, and my understanding is that a relative path does not require that the target file be in a sub-directory.

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