Checks & Home Inventory - Tip for Linking Images

[Retired Coal Miner]

The current thread about Home Invetory in M+, and having to customize the Home
Page to make it show up reminded me that I had a Home inventory list
somewhere, created back in M03 or 02, and hadn't seen it in a while. M+
Deluxe allows a link to an image document, and here's a trick I've used to
make this work seamlessly when moving or reinstalling your Money file to a
different computer.

Say you have images stored in some folder, and you have the full drive and
folder path hard coded in the Inventory entry, such as D:\My Documents\Money
Files\Home Inventory\, but you reinstall Money on a new PC and you copy the
previous image files to D:\Documents & Settings\User Name\Money Files\Home
Inventory\. You'd need to edit the link to each image to change the drive and
beginning of the folder path.

But if you use the DOS SUBST command (the Substitute Command), you enter the
image paths in Money as X:\filename.pdf, and then do SUBST X: "D:\My
Documents\Money Files\Home Inventory" at a DOS prompt, X: will behave as
"D:\My Documents\Money Files\Home Inventory" and you'll never have to edit the
file path in each entry if you ever move Money files or change computers.

You'd have to run the command once in a DOS window and it persists across all
applications until the machine is rebooted. This would also work for
drive/path links to check or file images in any transaction register.

[dutchy999]

Good stuff. As treasurer of my dance club, I have just been asked to
implement the "linked document" feature. The method described below will
ensure that the linked documents will always be always available, even if I
have to install Money on a new machine, and even if the linked documents are
in a physically different folder on the new machine..

Thanks

Dutchy999