I would expect ../blah as valid relative file... Bo
Index: src/frontends/qt4/qt_helpers.cpp =================================================================== --- src/frontends/qt4/qt_helpers.cpp (revision 22448) +++ src/frontends/qt4/qt_helpers.cpp (working copy) @@ -244,10 +244,7 @@ docstring const outname = browseFile(fname, title, filters, save, label1, dir1, label2, dir2); docstring const reloutname = makeRelPath(outname, refpath); - if (prefixIs(reloutname, from_ascii("../"))) - return outname; - else - return reloutname; + return reloutname; }