>I'm not sure whether there is smart solution for this matter. Maybe there should be an "auto" folder at every .tex file location instead of only in the master location, I imagine this could solve a few of the issues. The path to the .el file would have to be constructed using "../", then the path to the included file, then "auto/" and finally the filename. In my example, the paths to the .el files in the master's .el file would end up as follows: "../auto/preamble0", "../auto/prea mble1" "../../../auto/preamble2" "../auto/preamble3" "../folder/auto/preamble4" "../../auto/preamble5"