Is there a way check for graphics only in the \graphicspath folder?

Question

I used the \graphicspath command to tell my LaTeX document where the various pictures are located. However, I noticed that LaTeX first checks the directory where the TeX file is located and only afterwards looks in the directory specified in \graphicspath.

Is there a way to tell LaTeX to only look for graphics in the \graphicspath directory? Or is the only solution here to clean up the directory of the source file and make sure no graphics are located there?

Answer 1

A way where I suppose you have an image named MyImage.png inside a folder named images

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\let\oldIncludegraphics\includegraphics

\renewcommand{\includegraphics}[2][]{\oldIncludegraphics[#1]{images/#2}}

\begin{document}
\includegraphics[width=0.4\textwidth]{MyImage}
\end{document}