# I found a way to make org-attach links resilient to refiling

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**Category:** Tips\
**Created:** [March 19, 2026, 11:25am UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/i-found-a-way-to-make-org-attach-links-resilient-to-refiling/3903 "2026-03-19T11:25:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Doojin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9f8e36/32.png) [@Doojin](https://org-roam.discourse.group/u/Doojin)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2026, 11:25am UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/i-found-a-way-to-make-org-attach-links-resilient-to-refiling/3903/1 "2026-03-19T11:25:19Z")

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You can make a separate org-roam node that contains a group of related attachments and insert a link to the attachment node in a different org-roam node.

The link to the attachment container node can be refiled to other org-roam nodes.

You can also set `org-attach-use-inheritance` to `t` if all you want to do is to attach a file to an org-roam node.

This is my org-attach setting.

```auto
(setopt org-attach-id-dir "attachments"
        org-attach-use-inheritance t
        org-attach-auto-tag nil)

```

I just create an org-roam node suitable for a group of related attachments and put them in the node. Since org-atach-auto-tag is nil, ATTACH tag is not going to be attached to my org-roam node.

This is flawed, but I don’t have a better way, yet.

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**Author:** ![Doojin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9f8e36/32.png) [@Doojin](https://org-roam.discourse.group/u/Doojin)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2026, 12:09am UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/i-found-a-way-to-make-org-attach-links-resilient-to-refiling/3903/2 "2026-03-20T00:09:01Z")

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Another way is to create an org-roam node for each attachment file and attach a file to it.

For example, if you want to attach abc.pdf, create an org-roam node named abc.pdf, and attach abc.pdf to it with org-attach.

If multiple attachments have the same name, you can include ${id} in org-roam-node-display-template, and use vertico for displaying completions vertically.

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**Author:** ![Doojin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9f8e36/32.png) [@Doojin](https://org-roam.discourse.group/u/Doojin)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2026, 12:23am UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/i-found-a-way-to-make-org-attach-links-resilient-to-refiling/3903/3 "2026-03-20T00:23:54Z")

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With org 9.8 and denote, you can manage attachments in a separate directory and even have live image previews.