[GNC] "Path Head for Linked Files Relative Paths" - per file setting?

tuuranton at tutanota.de tuuranton at tutanota.de
Fri Dec 23 12:17:33 EST 2022


Hello

First, the *question*: Currently it appears the "Path Head for Linked Files Relative Paths" is a global setting applied to *all* .gnucash files. Is there a way to turn it into a *per file* setting?

Here is why I want to do this:

I have many .gnucash files on my system located at various places:

/home/user/Documents/personal-accounting/pers.gnucash
/home/user/Documents/business1-accounting/business1.gnucash
/home/user/Documents/business2-accounting/business2.gnucash

(I put them into separate folders to make sure the automatic backups - tons of files - don't pollute the rest of my regular Documents files)

But now I want to have "attachments" folders for each:

/home/user/Documents/personal-accounting/attachments/
/home/user/Documents/business1-accounting/attachments//home/user/Documents/business2-accounting/attachments/

I want each .gnucash file to use *the correct relative path* (so the path would be e.g. "attachments/receipt.pdf") in each case. This is important because then I could ship the *entire folder*, e.g. /home/user/Documents/business2-accounting/ to my Business2 accountant or taxman (for audit), and they'll be able to open it in GnuCash and have *working links to all the attached files*.

Regards
TA


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