I don't understand what you are talking about: I was having a discussion about using linked documents across different platforms... this has nothing to do with searching a year, so I don't understand what you are trying to communicate.
On Fri, Jan 30, 2026 at 7:54 PM Doug <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > -- _________________________________ 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.
