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From: "Jim Dell" <>
Subject: Re: [BK] Wish for the new year
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 08:51:08 -0500
In-Reply-To: <45995EE5.3070500@tds.net>


Bruce,
That's what I was looking for, but I thought I could use the variable
%username% like I do in BAT files, but that didn't work.

Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: [mailto:] On Behalf Of
Bruce Casner
Sent: Monday, January 01, 2007 2:20 PM
To:
Subject: Re: [BK] Wish for the new year

I have one in My Documents\BKdata, but the My Documents is in a different
absolute path on two different computers. I also have one on E:\BKdata.

Is this what you were asking?

Jim Dell wrote:
> Bruce,
> Get me an example of where one of your other databases is located and
> I'll test it.
> Jim
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [mailto:] On
> Behalf Of Bruce Casner
> Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2006 12:28 PM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [BK] Wish for the new year
>
> Jim,
>
> You are correct, and I have tried that in the past. The difficulty I
> have had with that method was that the ".\" was the <program> folder,
> not the <database> folder.
>
> The suggested method works if the database folder is always the same
> location relative to the program folder. I can do that for my main
> tree, but what about other trees in separate database folders? That's
> where my request would be useful.
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> Bruce
>
> Jim Dell wrote:
>> Bruce,
>> >From my notes
>> "
>> Make sure all your data files (txt & pictures) have relative paths
>> versus a hard path (i.e. .\BK6\DATA\PICTURE\Me.jpg [notice the single
>> dot in place of the drive letter & colon]) versus a hard path (i.e
>> C:\BK6\DATA\PICTURE\Me.jpg). This can be accomplished using BK6's
>> global find and replace utility."
>>
>> Jim
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [mailto:] On
>> Behalf Of Bruce Casner
>> Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2006 11:04 AM
>> To: John Steed;
>> Subject: [BK] Wish for the new year
>>
>> Best wishes for the New Year, John!
>>
>>
>> I have a small (hopefully) thing that has bothered me since BK3.
>> (Maybe it isn't small?) The paths contained in the database for
>> pictures, text files and media are all absolute pathnames. A few
>> revisions ago the Media, Pictures and Text subfolders were created
>> for BK. Before that files could be scattered anywhere on the disk.
>> With the new layout, it would seem simpler to make the pathnames
>> relative to the BK Data directory, or at least allow the possibility.
>> I know the default directory for Windows programs is the executable
>> directory. But there is a call to change the default directory, and
>> once a database is opened, the default could be set and paths could
>> then
> be relative to that.
>> This would be a big help for using BK on different drives, or thumb
>> drives, etc. Of course, there are people who do have fixed locations
>> for the files and don't use the new subdirectory structure. Absolute
>> pathnames are required for them.
>>
>> Bruce Casner
>> BK user since the floppy disk days
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