If we compare how path is resolved with other similar file properties, the resolution is really weird. No absolute full path can be set as it is resolved using bin folder: So: 1/ if you jmeter is in /Users/supportULP/test/jmeter-install/4.0 2/ Your saveservice properties file is in /data/ubik/ulp/demo/saveservice.properties You need to set: /Users/supportULP/test/jmeter-install/4.0/../../../../../data/ubik/ulp/demo/saveservice.properties This makes it very hard to set correctly this property.
Author: pmouawad Date: Tue Jun 19 20:20:15 2018 New Revision: 1833873 URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1833873&view=rev Log: Bug 62473 - Setting "saveservice_properties" has counter intuitive behaviour Bugzilla Id: 62473 Modified: jmeter/trunk/src/core/org/apache/jmeter/save/SaveService.java jmeter/trunk/xdocs/changes.xml
This issue has been migrated to GitHub: https://github.com/apache/jmeter/issues/4802