On Fri, 30 Jan 2026 18:16:11 -0600 R Losey <[email protected]> wrote: Oh, how much easier to have just one file! Mine goes back 20+years. If I need yearly info, I merely generate a report. I can also search easily for old data/information. (Like where did I buy the gadget from?) Of course one needs to add the invoice info in a form to be searched: I do this on the second description line (usually not seen) eg xxxlaptop, warr till xx/20xx ser #xxx. : all easily searchable.
Not criticizing your method, but why make everything harder! To my mind you are trying to impose commercial program methods to an o/s program that is designed to work efficiently in another way. > 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. _______________________________________________ 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.
