[chimerax-users] Relative paths to source files in saved sessions

[Tom Goddard]

Hi Christophe,

  ChimeraX sessions use a relative path to image data if the session file is in the same directory or a parent directory from where the image data is.  So if you save the session in the same directory as the image data or in a parent directory and then copy the containing directory with both session (.cxs) file and images to a new computer then it will open without asking you where the data is.

  Another option is you can include the image data in the session file.  This can of course make a huge session file.  The option to include maps is "includeMaps true"

	save mysession.cxs includeMaps true

  I'll make ticket to improve the behavior when ChimeraX does have to ask where the missing file is so that it leaves you in the same directory if you need to replace multiple missing data files instead of always starting in some default directory.

	Tom


> On Dec 4, 2019, at 12:35 PM, Christophe Leterrier <christophe.leterrier at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm working on multiple Chimera sessions on different computers, syncing the content of the folders and cxs files. However when opening a cxs file on a different computer, I have to manually relocate all the source files every time (in my case tif stacks, and even navigate for each of them from the cxs folder to the source files folder because the folder is reset at every source file selection).
> 
> Would it be possible to somehow store the relative path between the cxs file and the source files in the cxs file, or try relative if absolute paths fail? I have no idea how this is done currently, so sorry if this is an unrealistic/undesirable proposal.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Christophe
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