From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brian van den Broek Subject: Re: Attachments and refiling Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 20:14:06 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87ei1rrdzd.fsf@gnu.org> <4e21b345.c74cec0a.7e49.3340@mx.google.com> <87mxg3v32m.fsf@altern.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:33271) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ql8os-0002Nt-Fq for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jul 2011 20:14:51 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ql8op-000895-Cs for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jul 2011 20:14:50 -0400 Received: from mail-yi0-f41.google.com ([209.85.218.41]:35500) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ql8op-000890-AN for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jul 2011 20:14:47 -0400 Received: by yia13 with SMTP id 13so2235420yia.0 for ; Sun, 24 Jul 2011 17:14:46 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87mxg3v32m.fsf@altern.org> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org 2011/7/24 Bastien : > Hi Gustav and Darlan, > > one solution I can think of is to set `org-attach-directory' > to an absolute path instead of "data/" (the current default > value). > > This way, refiling an entry will not lose attachments. > > I'm considering using "~/.org-data/" as the default value. > > What do you think? > > -- > =A0Bastien I don't make much use of attachments, but I would think something like (setq org-attach-dir (concat org-directory ".data")) would make more sense. I, at least, prefer to have all of my org related data living in one directory tree. Best, Brian vdB