On Fri, Jan 30, 2026 at 4:38 PM Jim DeLaHunt <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2026-01-30 09:47, R Losey wrote: > > > > 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. > > 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. > I'd like to have them separated by year... perhaps, however, you could put the documents in yearly sub-folders and create links for them in the upper folder??? I'm not sure that having a link to a link would work. If, however, you are on Linux, you could create a hard link to the file - thus the file would only take up space once, but you could have multiple references to it. Sadly, I don't think Linux hard links translate well to other OSs... probably the same file with any kind of "link" created. Oh well... -- _________________________________ 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.
