Setting Hyperlinks in PDF Portfolio

Hi all,
I have the following question concering Acrobat Portfolios in Verion X on Windows:
The Portfolio is used for large summaries with lots of documents and folders. I need to set hyperlinks from one document to another, which basically works, but I cannot set the hyperlink to a document in a different folder structure inside the Portfolio.
Am I missing something or does it not work.
Thanks for replies in advance
mannikaltz

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