diff --git a/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.core/Editor/UnifiedRayTracing/UnifiedRTShaderImporter.cs b/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.core/Editor/UnifiedRayTracing/UnifiedRTShaderImporter.cs
index 7c82be5e528..116a2125d89 100644
--- a/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.core/Editor/UnifiedRayTracing/UnifiedRTShaderImporter.cs
+++ b/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.core/Editor/UnifiedRayTracing/UnifiedRTShaderImporter.cs
@@ -8,7 +8,11 @@ internal class UnifiedRTShaderImporter : ScriptedImporter
     {
         public override void OnImportAsset(AssetImportContext ctx)
         {
+#if UNITY_6000_5_OR_NEWER
+            string source = File.ReadAllText(FileUtil.PathToAbsolutePath(ctx.assetPath));
+#else
             string source = File.ReadAllText(ctx.assetPath);
+#endif
 
             var com = ShaderUtil.CreateComputeShaderAsset(ctx, computeShaderTemplate.Replace("SHADERCODE", source));
             var rt = ShaderUtil.CreateRayTracingShaderAsset(ctx,
diff --git a/Packages/com.unity.shadergraph/Editor/Generation/Processors/Generator.cs b/Packages/com.unity.shadergraph/Editor/Generation/Processors/Generator.cs
index 06afc60c5ce..22af3e159eb 100644
--- a/Packages/com.unity.shadergraph/Editor/Generation/Processors/Generator.cs
+++ b/Packages/com.unity.shadergraph/Editor/Generation/Processors/Generator.cs
@@ -1241,7 +1241,7 @@ void ProcessStackForPass(ContextData contextData, BlockFieldDescriptor[] passBlo
             // Shared Templates
             string[] sharedTemplateDirectories = pass.sharedTemplateDirectories;
 
-            if (!File.Exists(passTemplatePath))
+            if (!File.Exists(FileUtilities.PathToAbsolutePath(passTemplatePath)))
             {
                 UnityEngine.Profiling.Profiler.EndSample(); // GenerateShaderPass
                 return;
diff --git a/Packages/com.unity.shadergraph/Editor/Generation/Processors/ShaderSpliceUtil.cs b/Packages/com.unity.shadergraph/Editor/Generation/Processors/ShaderSpliceUtil.cs
index e193eb18680..065c80f297c 100644
--- a/Packages/com.unity.shadergraph/Editor/Generation/Processors/ShaderSpliceUtil.cs
+++ b/Packages/com.unity.shadergraph/Editor/Generation/Processors/ShaderSpliceUtil.cs
@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ private void ProcessIncludeCommand(Token includeCommand, int lineEnd)
                             string templatePath = templatePaths[i];
                             includeLocation = Path.Combine(templatePath, param.GetString());
                             bool cacheHit = includeCache.ContainsKey(includeLocation);
-                            if (cacheHit ||  File.Exists(includeLocation))                            {
+                            if (cacheHit ||  File.Exists(FileUtilities.PathToAbsolutePath(includeLocation)))                            {
                                 found = true;
                                 break;
                             }
diff --git a/Packages/com.unity.shadergraph/Editor/Util/FileUtilities.cs b/Packages/com.unity.shadergraph/Editor/Util/FileUtilities.cs
index 545f9764679..b667636180b 100644
--- a/Packages/com.unity.shadergraph/Editor/Util/FileUtilities.cs
+++ b/Packages/com.unity.shadergraph/Editor/Util/FileUtilities.cs
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ public static bool WriteToDisk(string path, string text)
             {
                 try
                 {
-                    File.WriteAllText(path, text);
+                    File.WriteAllText(PathToAbsolutePath(path), text);
                 }
                 catch (Exception e)
                 {
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ public static string SafeReadAllText(string assetPath)
             string result = null;
             try
             {
-                result = File.ReadAllText(assetPath, Encoding.UTF8);
+                result = File.ReadAllText(PathToAbsolutePath(assetPath), Encoding.UTF8);
             }
             catch
             {
@@ -83,11 +83,20 @@ public static string SafeReadAllText(string assetPath)
             return result;
         }
 
+        public static string PathToAbsolutePath(string path)
+        {
+#if UNITY_6000_5_OR_NEWER
+            return FileUtil.PathToAbsolutePath(path);
+#else
+            return Path.GetFullPath(path);
+#endif
+        }
+        
         internal static bool TryReadGraphDataFromDisk(string path, out GraphData graph)
         {
             try
             {
-                var textGraph = File.ReadAllText(path, Encoding.UTF8);
+                var textGraph = File.ReadAllText(PathToAbsolutePath(path), Encoding.UTF8);
                 graph = new GraphData
                 {
                     messageManager = new Graphing.Util.MessageManager(),