[GNC] Linked location

[Doug]

On Fri, 30 Jan 2026 18:16:11 -0600
R Losey <rlosey at gmail.com> wrote:

Oh, how much easier to have just one file! Mine goes back 20+years. 
If I need yearly info, I merely generate a report. I can also search 
easily for old data/information. (Like where did I buy the gadget from?)
 Of course one needs to add the invoice info in a form to be searched: 
I do this on the second description line (usually not seen) eg xxxlaptop, 
warr till xx/20xx ser #xxx. : all easily searchable.

Not criticizing your method, but why make everything harder! To my mind 
you are trying to impose commercial program methods to an o/s program 
that is designed to work efficiently in another way.



> 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:
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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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