Attachment editor

Attachment editor is a tool intended to maintain list of files assigned to tasks, notes or contacts. Picture below shows windowed attachment editor, but same functionality can be found in editor embedded in Task and Contact properties.

attachments

There are three types of attachments.

Linked attachment

It's described by full path to the file that must be present on file system. If database file is shared between different computers, you should make sure that path doesn't change (i.e. add files from shared network folders instead from local hard disk). On the other hand, in this case size of database does not suffer from attachment size.

Embedded attachment

Whole file content is written into the database (compressed). After adding it's safe to delete original file from hard disk and you don't need to think about access from different computers. However, you should be careful as extensive use can lead to large database (.aao) file. Size column shows size of embedded attachment. Note that actual space taken is smaller than indicated here as embedded content is compressed.

Folder attachment

Basically, it's same as linked attachment, instead it points to a folder - same guidelines apply.

Menu and toolbar options

	Add Linked	Add linked attachment
	Add Embedded	Add embedded attachment
	Add Folder	Add link to a folder
	Delete	Delete selected attachment
	Open	Open selected attachment in default editor. If it's embedded, it is saved to a temporary file first. If file is edited and saved (Modified time is changed), you can choose to update database with new content
	Save	Save selected attachment
	Convert to Embedded	Convert attachment to embedded
	Convert to Linked	Convert attachment to linked (you will need to choose path to save a file)