Portable project

Portable project

The original version of this document is located at at https://docs.qfield.org/how-to/movable-project

Portable project

To manually synchronise your QGIS project, you will need a portable version of your .qgs file. Portable means that all paths are relative and datasets are reachable from the device.

Configure a portable project

:material-monitor: Desktop preparation

Check that Project > Project Properties > General > Save paths is set to Relative and that all required data files are in the same folder like the .qgs file or in a subfolder.

For increased productivity, we suggest having a look at qfieldcloud and qfieldsync

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