Comment 6 for bug 513083

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Max Gaukler (mgmax) wrote :

Looking at the source reveals the problem:

The images are referenced and not embedded. The SVG file only contains the path to the image as "file:///D:/inkscape_test_case/Layer2.png", and because the drive letter is not the same on your other machine, inkscape cannot find the images. It would be better if you embedded them (the newer inkscape version now asks). Embedding means that the whole image content is copied into the SVG file and the original image file is no longer needed.

It seems you included images that were not embedded, but referenced. Inkscape then could not load the images because they were not at the position.

The real problem is that inkscape does not silently fail when accessing files on windows, but raises this annoying "reinsert disk" error.
We have a similar problem in #950781, although the cause there is something else.