Allow files to be excluded when you use autocomplete to select a link

[phil_1337]

Thanks a lot for the help! Unfortunately, It does not work. I have tried some variations as well (see image below). But still, wenn entering [[randomfilename.docx]], then also temporary office files are included like ~$ndomfilename.docx.

But I did not want to hijack a 2 year old thread. This was by accident, sorry. We could continue in my active help thread here:

Hiding temporary MS Office files (~$xyz) in file explorer (CSS? regex?)

What I’m trying to do I’m using MS office files within my vault have them settled just next to my notes. When opening the files with MS Word or MS Excel there are usually temporary files created. As these additional files make the list view in file explorer quite cluttered and are additinally popping up when searching, I need a way to exclude them from showing in Obsidian. I thought about filtering these files by the inital “~” or “~$”. [grafik] For example the following files should be exclud…

There I had a similar issue when someone suggested me a solution via CSS snippets. Although the code worked for the helper, it did not in my case. Therefore I guess a plugin is changing the way filenames are indexed.