[GNC] Transaction Linked Document - acceptable Linked Location values

[Kalpesh Patel]

Indeed you can for specifying a 'Linked File'. To keep those links "portable", I simply set it to just plain root of the drive. But I don’t think this permits specifying a folder.

So this question was pertaining to the other one -- using 'Linked Location' -- rather than 'Linked File' where (I hope!) that setting is a NOP. I wasn't sure if 'Linked Location' would accept any other scheme other than 'http(s)://' but looks like it permits 'file:///' scheme as well, thus makes it fair to link anything rather than limited to just a single file.

-----Original Message-----
From: Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> 
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2026 8:36 PM
To: gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org
Subject: Re: [GNC] Transaction Linked Document - acceptable Linked Location values

You can also set the default path under:

Preferences > General > Linked Files

Regards,
Adrien

On 1/27/26 2:10 PM, Sherlock wrote:
> We may use file URI to reference a folder (or directory).
> 
> See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_URI_scheme
> 
> 
> For example
> 
> file:///path/to/the/folder