[GNC] Linked location

[Adrien Monteleone]

Ah, thanks. I get it now.

Regards,
Adrien

On 2/2/26 11:31 PM, R Losey wrote:
> A good question... it goes back to the fact that I have GnuCash install on
> Windows, Mac, and Linux (Ubuntu); I primarily use Mac and Windows for my
> finances, but I do use Linux once in a while.
> 
> So, if I use an absolute path, the linked document will (probably) only
> work on the platform that did the linking. (I'm guessing that Mac and
> Ubuntu will probably work, but if the receipts are on a mounted drive, the
> mount points are different on the Mac than on Ubuntu).
> 
> So, originally, I was wondering if I created a "Receipts" directory on the
> NAS and put all of the receipts there, then I could linke each one as a
> relative path (with no path separators), would it work?
> 
> The answers I received seemed to indicate "yes", because even though the
> paths are different, the location is installed in the preferences file
> locally for each machine.
> 
> (It is precisely because I know of issues with path separators and  mount
> points that I have not been using linked documents; I was explaining the
> features of GnuCash to someone and mentioned linked documents, and I
> started wondering if there was a way that I could use them).