Ah, okay. Having subfolders by years is what the other guy does; presumably with many years of data, it keeps them separated more easily, but using linked documents wouldn't work with subdirectories, since Windows & Linux use different path markers.
Your point is, I gather, that there is no problem with one big directory, and that creating separate folders (directories) for various years isn't really needed -- is that it? On Fri, Jan 30, 2026 at 9:26 PM Doug <[email protected]> wrote: > but there was discussion about subdirectories for different years. > > On Fri, 30 Jan 2026 20:59:47 -0600 > R Losey <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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 > -- _________________________________ 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.
