<snip> I was chasing the wrong issue it would seem.
I would venture a guess here and say that 90% of all beginner's attempts at debugging code start and head in the wrong direction......I know, I was once there.
For the relative paths.....could you show us the exact structure of the paths for the drawing & xrefs?
Well using a Network drive to generalize it so to speak:
X:\Alphabetical\Project#\CADD\XREF\ contains the xrefs of the project
X:\Alphabetical\Project#\CADD\ARCH\ contains architects files to create xref files
X:\Alphabetical\Project#\CADD\ELEC\ discipline specific drawings
X:\Alphabetical\Project#\CADD\MECH\ discipline specific drawings
X:\Alphabetical\Project#\CADD\PLUM\ discipline specific drawings
X:\Alphabetical\Project#\CADD\TELE\ discipline specific drawings
X:\Alphabetical\Project#\CADD\DEMO\ discipline specific drawings
Mainly if the cadd folder is zipped up all of the xref's will be relative for outside clients.
Trying to help things along with a National CAD Standard so to speak making things lower maintenance in the initial set up.
Also breaking this up for multiple states partner firms to access and browse through the intranet by keeping less files per folder for each browse to refresh on the screen.