[GNC] Linked location

[R Losey]

On Fri, Jan 30, 2026 at 4:38 PM Jim DeLaHunt <list+gnucash at jdlh.com> wrote:

> 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>
> 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?...
>>
>> 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.
>


I'd like to have them separated by year... perhaps, however, you could put
the documents in yearly sub-folders and create links for them in the upper
folder??? I'm not sure that having a link to a link would work.  If,
however, you are on Linux, you could create a hard link to the file - thus
the file would only take up space once, but you could have multiple
references to it.  Sadly, I don't think Linux hard links translate well to
other OSs... probably the same file with any kind of "link" created. Oh
well...



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