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[Jennifer <538558@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've just run into this.  +1 for relative addressing please :-)

I'm not sure of the progress of battmanux's patch now, but assuming we
don't have actual relative addressing yet, meanwhile I say +1 to Ulrik's
comment #2:  "At the very least, there should be some option to relocate
a file-link that has been broken, by pointing out its new location."
I've only got about a dozen files as part of my current project, so
doing it manually would have worked for me.

= Thoughts on use cases =

My example right now is that I started something on my "usual" computer
but I'm finding this machine isn't powerful enough to run the video
smoothly.  The next bit is going to involve some speech sync-ing which I
shan't be able to check with such choppy video, so I thought I would
move it over to a friend's machine which is faster.

Apparently I can't.  But I also can't finish the project on this
machine.  :-(

Another likely case is backups and archiving:  would I be right in
thinking that at present you'd have to ensure that any future machine
has exactly the same names for its discs as your current one, and same
directory structure, or your old projects become un-openable?

= Documentation =

This limitation is non-obvious until you run into it (and non-trivial to
be caught out by).  Therefore I suggest it justifies flagging in the
manual.

I'd like to suggest adding a line to the "Projects - Create, Open, and
Save" page:  e.g. "Please start your new project on the same computer
you will finish it on, [or on portable storage,] as Projects cannot yet
be moved off one computer and onto another.  The files you import to the
Project will not be stored as part of it, and they must stay in the same
place in their directory system."  (if that's an accurate summary.)

If _I'd_ read that, I'd have either put it on a memory stick in the
first place (if that worked), or at least not continued beyond the point
where I started thinking "I'm going to need a faster machine to finish
this off".  (I did realise from experience of other programs that the
clips might not be saved as part of the project file - but it never
occurred to me that the solution wouldn't simply be to copy them across
together with it.)

I understand that coding new bits can take much more time than lookers-
on might imagine, but the time it takes to warn people in the Help must
surely be small.

Thanks for reading if you got this far :-)

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/538558

Title:
  absolute paths in .osp

Status in OpenShot Video Editor:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Hi,

  I have opened .osp file with text editor and seems like paths to media files in project are absolute.
  It will be great to use relative from .osp file paths to media files.

  It should be much easy to move(send) clip sources and  project file to
  another location

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