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[Jim DeLaHunt]

On 2026-01-30 09:47, R Losey wrote:

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> On Thu, Jan 29, 2026 at 7:20 PM Jim DeLaHunt <list+gnucash at jdlh.com 
> <mailto:list%2Bgnucash at jdlh.com>> wrote:
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>     On 2026-01-29 17:10, R Losey wrote:
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>     > ...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?...
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>     The two complications I can imagine might be:
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>     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.
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> 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.
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>     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.
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>
> And I very much try to avoid these because of this issue precisely.

Good! This situation indicates that you were correct to be cautious. :-)

—Jim DeLaHunt