[GNC] Linked location

[R Losey]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2026 at 7:20 PM Jim DeLaHunt <list+gnucash at jdlh.com> 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.




> 2. The platforms store some accented characters e.g. é and ü,
> differently. If some of your directory or file names include those
> particular characters, what one platform writes might not be legible to
> the other platforms.
>

And I very much try to avoid these because of this issue precisely.



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