On 2026-01-30 09:47, R Losey wrote:
On Thu, Jan 29, 2026 at 7:20 PM Jim DeLaHunt <[email protected]
<mailto:list%[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.
Ah! If all of your attachments are within a single directory which is
the root of the attachments, then yes, you have no directory separators
to worry about. I do not have that simplification; I put my attachments
in per-year subdirectories, so my relative paths include directory
separators.
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.
Good! This situation indicates that you were correct to be cautious. :-)
—Jim DeLaHunt
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