8. Files and Folders ↑

8.4 File Links

You may use a Link field to store a link to a local file or folder.

You may use the Set Local Link command, beneath the Note menu, to select a file or folder to be linked using the Link field.

You may also drag a file (other than a text file) from the Finder to the List tab of a Collection, and then drop it after an existing row (but not on it), in order to create a new Note pointing to the dragged file, with a Title based on the name of the file.

If you would rather have such a file stored as an attachment, you could then use the Convert Local Link to Attachment command – again beneath the Note menu – to convert the file link to a File Attachment.

The local file or folder may be internal to the Collection (i.e., stored somewhere within or beneath the Collection folder), or external to the Collection.

If it is external to the Collection, then such a link would start with file:// and would contain a complete path to the file or folder.

If it is internal to the Collection, then such a link will be stored as a relative link (relative to the Collection folder itself), so that such links should be preserved if the Collection as a whole is moved to a different location.