Relative links in interactive pdf

Hi. I'm building an interactive pdf that will work as the content of an interactive cd. The main document is saved on the "cd" directory, on the desktop. I created a button that will open an external pdf file. The link to the file is an absolute link:
Macintosh HD:Users:myuser:Desktop:cd:files:file1.pdf
Now, I need this to be a relative link so I can burn the cd and make sure it works, independently of the file's root address. How can I achieve this?
I tried changing the : to / and doing something like ./cd/files/file1.pdf but it didn't work. This probably has a simple solution, I just don't know how to express relative links in InDesign. Any advice? Thanks.

Hi. Honestly I don't remember how I solved this at the time, it was over 3 years ago... The problem was just as described. I had an interactive pdf that I had to burn on a CD. On the CD was another file that could be opened via a button on the interactive pdf. Thing was I didn't know how to create a button with a link for the document on the CD, I could only do it with guaranteed results using a link to the file on my computer. Hence the need to have a relative link.

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