On 2026-01-28 20:38, R Losey wrote:
I have thought about making use of linking things (pictures, emails) to
GnuCash transactions.
I'm not sure I can use it with my setup: I have GnuCash installed an Win10,
an a Mac, and on Linux (Ubuntu LTS). I run GruCash from all of these, but
mostly the Windows and the Mac computer. The GnuCash file is stored on our
local network, and it might be helpful to also have a folder there where I
can put receipts, etc.
However, the local network storage is accessed differently from Mac to
Windows to Linux.
Is the file location stored in the GnuCash file? If it is, then an
attachment I add in Windows may not be able to be seen on the Mac, right?
Maybe if the default location is stored in my preferences file (???), AND
the attachment is relative to that location, then I may be able to make
this work.
Thoughts?
[Yes, I know I could try it, but (1) perhaps someone on the list has
already been down this path, and (2) I'm afraid that if the path is not
valid on a different platform, it may cause problems (crash?) GnuCash].
You might want to start by reading a similar thread in December:
[GNC] GnuCash SQLite: file attachments not recognized across platforms.
<https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2025-December/118983.html>
I wrote at the time:
I don't know if the GnuCash app makes promises that attachment paths
work across platforms. I do know:
* Absolute paths are unlikely to work, because the roots of absolute
paths are different on Windows and Linux (e.g. "C:\Users" and
"/usr/". So, using relative paths to attachments is more likely to
work.
* Windows and Linux use different path separator characters ("\" and
"/").
* Windows and Linux use different character code conventions to store
path names (16-bit UTF-16LE and 8-bit UTF-8).
It is possible that GnuCash code makes an effort to smooth over these
differences. It is also possible that it makes no particular effort. If
you are comfortable reading software source code, you could read the
GnuCash source code to try and find out.
I believe that the GnuCash setting (preference) "Path head for Linked
Files Relative Paths" is stored within GSettings, not in the book file.
See <https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations#GSettings>
for where GSettings stores data on your platform.
I hope this helps,
—Jim DeLaHunt
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