# Does the database have to have full absolute paths?

**URL:** <https://discourse.beets.io/t/does-the-database-have-to-have-full-absolute-paths/963>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [October 14, 2019, 3:48pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/does-the-database-have-to-have-full-absolute-paths/963 "2019-10-14T15:48:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![jackwilsdon](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.beets.io/jackwilsdon/32/10_2.png) [@jackwilsdon](https://discourse.beets.io/u/jackwilsdon)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2019, 5:06pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/does-the-database-have-to-have-full-absolute-paths/963/2 "2019-10-14T17:06:16Z")

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Sadly it looks like we don’t support this right now. See [this](https://discourse.beets.io/t/syncing-databases-across-computers/220) related Discourse post and [this](https://github.com/beetbox/beets/issues/133) issue about using relative paths for music (also linked in the aforementioned Discourse post).

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