Broken Image and pdf display on Obsidian

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Description of the problem

The Images and PDFs in my vault are not displayed when I try to embed them in notes. Images and PDFs are not visible even when I open them in a separate tab/window within Obsidian
The images in my notes that were visible until very recently are no longer displayed. Furthermore, new images that I add to my vault are not displayed as well. However, thankfully, the images have not been corrupted and are properly displayed when I use an external application to view them.

The problem persists even in other vaults that I have created. This led me to think that this is some problem that relates the the app’s config files. However, images are properly rendered in new vaults that I created after the problem began

What the Problem looks like

This is what happens when I embed a note in a note.
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Console Output

This is the output when I try to embed an image
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This is the output when I try to open a pdf
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Things I have tried without success

I have tried uninstalling Obsidian, deleting the config files at /.config/obsidian, and reinstalling the app.

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Have you tried to activate save mode, basically, to deactivate all community plugins?

Maybe you’ve some old plugins conflicting with Obsidian

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I have tried to see if the problem persists in “restricted mode” and it does.

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Or try this, from Obsidian open new vault, remove this vault, then open system file manager, rename the vault folder, add it as a new vault.
This way Obsidian should refresh any cache or index of vault files.

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@nahi Hi, thank you for the reply. I have tried what you suggested but it didn’t resolve the problem

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This is the output in the “Elements” section. Not sure if this will be of help but I am posting this for reference.

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Edit 1: The problem with PDFs not loading has somehow been resolved on its own by the looks of it. I am able to manually resolve the problem with images simply by renaming them. However, I would appreciate a better solution since I have over a thousand images in my vault and it would be quite cumbersome to rename all the images.

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Yeah, looking at your last screenshot we can see how you use some illegal characters, Slash /
Computer keyboards allow us to type anything, but file / folder paths don’t allow any characters.
I mean, obviously you can but this will trigger errors

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