[Therion] Symbolic links.

[Stacho Mudrak]

I am sorry, I have wrongly understood original mail.

Obviously it is a bug somewhere in xtherion. I will try to check and fix it.

Thanks, S.

Quoting Philip Balister <philip at balister.org>:

> I'm having trouble figuring out why you need a symbolic link .....
>
> Our survey data is stored something like this
>
> ./cavename  contains svx files
> ./cavename/notes  scans of notes
> ./cavename/segments  scraps cut from notes
>
> Here I am a little unsure what the other Philip has done
> ./cavename/therion  contains files for therion
>
> I believe that the other Philip's problem is that therion does not like
> it when you refer to scraps like this ../segment/file.png, but I am not
> 100% certain of this. So he creates a symbolic link to work around the
> original problem.
>
> Philip
>
> Stacho Mudrak wrote:
> > We would like to keep files portable. If they will refer to images outside
> > current folder, you can not simply pack the folder you want to modify, but
> you
> > need to pack all the time entire project. Then it is also difficult to
> split
> > the work between more people.
> >
> > If you do not like having same images on two places, you can simply use
> symbolic
> > links on unix-like systems.
> >
> > S.
> >
> > Quoting Philip Schuchardt <ohc at vt.edu>:
> >
> >
> >> When I want to insert a new image I get an error message.  Why can't
> therion
> >>open images that follow a symbolic link?
> >>
> >>notes -> ../../notes
> >>
> >>Error Message:
> >>Picture
> >>
> >
> >
>
/home/blitz/documents/clubs/caving/survey/wolf/ElvisGrotto3/notes/trip007-FX1-FX7-0002.png
> >
> >>not in file
> >>path /home/blitz/documents/clubs/survey/wolf/ElvisGrotto3/therion/th2
> >>
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