[GNC] Linked location

[R Losey]

Ah, okay.

Having subfolders by years is what the other guy does; presumably with many
years of data, it keeps them separated more easily, but using linked
documents wouldn't work with subdirectories, since Windows & Linux use
different path markers.

Your point is, I gather, that there is no problem with one big directory,
and that creating separate folders (directories) for various years isn't
really needed -- is that it?


On Fri, Jan 30, 2026 at 9:26 PM Doug <lemans4 at internode.on.net> wrote:

> 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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