[quote user="david price2"]with a workspace at C:\Users\abcdef\workspace_v5_5 (on Win7)
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In which directory does the project reside? Do you open a workspace at the above directory, then import the project?
[quote user="david price2"]If I build the project using different length paths [/quote]
Not sure I understand what you mean here. Which path are you adjusting? The location of your workspace? If you can elaborate on exactly what you did, I will try to see if I can reproduce the behavior.