Actual and relative file paths - CS4(mac)

Question

Is there a way to save your file so that it ALWAYS looks for the relative paths of all its content?
My issue is that when i xfer the prproj file to another computer it asks me to reconnect everything. The other computer has exactly the same folder structure as the one i'm copying from minus a different harddrive name. (I just copied and pasted the whole project from computer to computer).
Its really getting to become a huge hassle....any work around and whatnot would be great....thanks!

Answer 1

I deal with this often (yesterday in fact). Things get ugly when you try to re-link a project that has media placed in multiple folders within the main project folder. Even worse when there are a hundred cryptically named P2 mxf files.
Try this:
Open the *.prproj file in Notepad and do an "Edit" "Find" for the word: filepath
Keep searching down till you get a drive letter.
This will show the original drive letter the project was last saved with.
To save time, and avoid relinking everything, do one of the following two... your choice:
1.) Do a find and replace in Notepad of a short "phrase" of code containing the original drive letter, in the document. Replace it with the identical phrase containing the currently assigned drive letter.
For Example:
Find: <FilePath>E:\
Replace With: <FilePath>G:\
OR:
2.) After noting the original drive letter in the *.prproj file by doing the "filepath" search in Notepad, simply assign the original drive letter back to the drive in "Computer Management"/"Storage"/Disk Management.
*WARNING: Premiere is unforgiving of even the slightest error in a *.prproj file.
ALWAYS EDIT A COPY OF YOUR PROJECT IN NOTEPAD