[Gramps-devel] Media manager convert absolute to relative paths

[Gerald B. <ger...@gm...>]

HI -- I've got a question about how the media manager converts
absolute to relative paths.  Here's what I did:

1. change to directory d:\home\shared\gramps  (on windows, obviously)
2. Open a grdb in d:\home\shared\gramps\
3. add a media object: d:\home\shared\gramps\media\test\test.jpg
4. using media manager, convert the absolute to relative path.
5. The modified path is:

d:\home\shared\gramps\media\test\test.jpg

In other words, no change.  Shouldn't it change to media\test\test.jpg ?

Next, in the same session I did this:

1. using media manager, replace "d:" with ""

my test case is now \home\shared\gramps\media\test\test.jpg

2. using media manager, convert absolute to relative.  The resulting path is:

..\..\..\..\home\shared\gramps\media\test\test.jpg

This works, but the leading "..\..\..\.." is not needed, since "\home"
starts at root (for the drive)

This sure looks odd to me.  I suppose the problem may be that the full
path to the grdb begins with "d:", but I'm not sure.