On Thu, Jan 29, 2026 at 7:20 PM Jim DeLaHunt <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2026-01-29 17:10, R Losey wrote: > > > ...If I understood what you said and what was implied on the thread, if > I have > > each version point to the same folder as the root folder for files, and > > then ensure that I just select the file in that folder, I should be > fine?... > > The two complications I can imagine might be: > > 1. The path separator character is '/' on macOS and Linux, but '\' on > Windows. That might mean that the path which one of those two writes > might be unusable by the other. > I don't understand; if the path is stored in my preferences file separately on each machine, and the I use a relative path (just filename with no path separators -- for example "Invoice_TLT_32711.pdf", there is no separator involved, right? Hopefully, that will be fine. > 2. The platforms store some accented characters e.g. é and ü, > differently. If some of your directory or file names include those > particular characters, what one platform writes might not be legible to > the other platforms. > And I very much try to avoid these because of this issue precisely. -- _________________________________ Richard Losey [email protected] Micah 6:8 _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
