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     Assignee: (unassigned) => Michael J Salmons (salmons-mike)

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/423948

Title:
  Moving a project folder looses thumbnails

Status in OpenShot Video Editor:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  When a project is moved to another location (subfolder thumbnails
  included), the snapshot images point to the original location. Thus in
  the project screen, the movies are shown with no snapshot. Everything
  is functional, but this is not as it supposed to work. Apparently is
  the loaction of the thumbnails stored in a absolute way, so not
  relative. As long as the project folder is not moved, everything
  works.

  Steps to reproduce:
  - Create a folder, say '~/OpenShot'
  - Create a folder, say '~/OpenShot/Project1'
  - Create a new project
  - Import some movies
  - Save the project under 'Project1.osp' in '~/OpenShot/Project1'
  - Close the project
  - Check the automatically created folder 'thumbnails' (and contents) under '~/OpenShot/Project1'
  - Copy '~/OpenShot/Project1' to '~/OpenShot/Project2'
  - Open '~/OpenShot/Project2/Project1.osp'
  - Check the images (thumbnails) to appear in the movie tracks
  - Close OpenShot
  - Rename the folder ~/OpenShot/Project1' to ~/OpenShot/Project1_'
  - Open '~/OpenShot/Project2/Project1.osp'
  - Check the images (thumbnails): they do not appear anymore in the movie tracks
  - Close OpenShot
  - Revert the renaming: rename the folder ~/OpenShot/Project1_' back to '~/OpenShot/Project1'
  - Open '~/OpenShot/Project2/Project1.osp'
  - Check the images (thumbnails) to re-appear in the movie tracks

  This proves that the location of the thumbnails which shows in the
  movie tracks, are stored absolutely, so not relative to the project
  folder. Despite the existence of the thumbnail sub folder, images in
  that folder do not play any role when the project is copied from
  another location. The copied thumbnail sub folder could be deleted any
  time, without loosing any data.

  To prove this, a final test:
  - Rename the folder ~/OpenShot/Project1/thumbnails' to './thumbnails_'
  - Open '~/OpenShot/Project2/Project1.osp'
  - Check the images (thumbnails): they do not appear anymore in the movie tracks

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