includesvg for files with the same name in different folders/directories

Question

I have two separate files, in different folders/directories, but with the same file name.

\begin{figure}[htp]
\includesvg[width = \textwidth]{/home/con/identify.target/A/svg/msa.svg}
\caption{}
\label{fig:1}
\end{figure} \FloatBarrier
\begin{figure}[htp]
\includesvg[width = \textwidth]{/home/con/identify.target/B/svg/msa.svg}
\caption{}
\label{fig:2}
\end{figure} \FloatBarrier

which is what I did originally, which doesn't work, as both images show identically

I have tried the solution from: \graphicspath : Images with duplicate filenames, different folder locations

which makes my code into

    \graphicspath{{/home/con/identify.target/A/}}
    \begin{figure}[htp]
    \includesvg[width = \textwidth]{msa.svg}
    \caption{}
    \label{fig:1}
    \end{figure} \FloatBarrier
\graphicspath{{/home/con/identify.target/B/}}
    \begin{figure}[htp]
    \includesvg[width = \textwidth]{msa.svg}
    \caption{}
    \label{fig:2}
    \end{figure} \FloatBarrier

which unfortunately produces the same result, the images are still treated identically

I have also tried extractpath and extractname from the manual https://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/CTAN/graphics/svg/doc/svg.pdf

Renaming the files should work,but I don't want to have to rename thousands of files.

Answer 1

This is a (unfortunately long standing) known issue. See https://github.com/mrpiggi/svg/issues/11. As a workaround, you should use inkscapepath=svgsubdir.