"Link to Desktop Folder" revisited

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Operating system

Linux

Joplin version

3.2.12

What issue do you have?

In 2019 someone raised the question if "Link to Folder on Desktop" was possible. At that time is wasn't possible, but apparently the feature request had already been raised at the time.

Is this possible now? If so, what would be the syntax to use; especially if the folder name contains a blank?

Cheers,
kai.

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Don't know about Linux but maybe it's similar to Windows links ...

[Windows link to local folder](file:///D:\Temp)

Or with a space in the folder

[Windows link to local folder](file:///D:\My%20Folder)

Those work on my Win11 box

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Thanks for the quick reply, but sadly NO, that does not work. But if it works under Win11, then apparently this feature has meanwhile been implemented; so what is wrong with something like

[foo](file:///home/kai/foo)

?

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From what I've read how the file protocol is interpreted can vary by browser, so maybe see if it is different in Linux (maybe slightly different format, for starters on Linux I'd try 2 slashes and not 3).

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Yes, I never noticed that. I've always just done the template bit and my template got the trio somehow. Windows doesn't seem to care whether there are two or three but maybe Linux does.

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Looks like that's all it took; it's working now; thanks for the feedback.

Cheers,
kai.

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I usually open the folder in any browser, and then the URL bar will show the correct file link.

But that is a bit troublesome, so I wrote an Automator script and registered it in Mac's Finder to copy the file URL directly.

Nautilus in Linux should have a similar script.