Hello, I am a GnuCash user and I use GnuCash on two machines: Linux and Windows.
I switched to the SQLite file format in order to use a Python library and be able to test and parse the SQLite database.
One issue I am facing concerns the use of *absolute paths on Windows*. When I started using GnuCash on Windows, I attached files using absolute paths. After some time, I realized that Windows paths could cause problems: when I open my book on another machine, the linked files are not recognized.
For this year, after resetting all the accounts, I want to start a new year with a more flexible method, since I use GnuCash from both Linux and Windows.
I used to use GitHub to synchronize the files. The GnuCash version on Windows is 5.5, while on my Ubuntu 25 system I use version 5.15. The book opens correctly without issues on both systems. However, one thing I tested was updating the Windows version of GnuCash to the latest release to match my Linux machine. I noticed that when I open the book with the latest Windows version, some strange characters appear. I reinstalled the 5.5 version since it works good.
If you have any recommendations to help resolve the issue with linked file paths, I would be very grateful.
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