External Links to JoplinPortable no longer work

[Steph]

@Mswelshmi

Now the link opens a second instance of Joplin. I can't tell where this comes from.

It's a new feature of Joplin : the possibility to have two instances. The new one is virgin like was the first one.
At this moment (I use the JoplinPortable version too) there are strange behaviors sometimes...

Linking to a specific note

If you haven't got a version (any version) of Joplin installed on your system it is not so much a "mystery of life" as a serious bug. You are suggesting that the portable version can under unknown conditions store note data in the user account files on the host machine when that version is expressly designed not to do so. The portable version is engineered to store its data in a folder called JoplinProfile located in the same folder as the JoplinPortable.exe file. In your case that is on your …

So : you are not alone ! lol