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rouggy 139b4675e3 fix: portable folder — stop storing absolute database paths
Moving the folder (C:\OpsLog → D:\OpsLog, or onto a stick) broke everything:
config.json and each profile's logbook path were absolute, so on the new
machine the pointer named a drive that no longer applied.

The logbook case was the dangerous one. db.Open CREATES what is missing, so if
the stale C: path happened to be creatable, the operator silently got a NEW
EMPTY logbook instead of an error — with their QSOs sitting untouched in the
folder they had just copied.

A path inside the application folder is now stored relative to it and resolved
against the current location at read time. A path OUTSIDE it (a synced folder,
a chosen drive) stays absolute and untouched — that is a deliberate choice; it
is only re-rooted when it has gone missing AND a file of the same name exists in
this install's data folder, i.e. the copied-folder case. With no such twin the
path is left alone so the failure is reported rather than papered over with an
unrelated database. Both rules are pinned by tests.
2026-07-27 13:48:11 +02:00