[GNC] Linked location

[Doug]

but there was discussion about subdirectories for different years.

On Fri, 30 Jan 2026 20:59:47 -0600
R Losey <rlosey at gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't understand what you are talking about: I was having a discussion
> about using linked documents across different platforms... this has nothing
> to do with searching a year, so I don't understand what you are trying to
> communicate.
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jan 30, 2026 at 7:54 PM Doug <lemans4 at internode.on.net> wrote:
> 
> > 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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