Any news on this bug? With v0.15.9 the bug is still there. Maybe someone can explain me why this bug is so difficult to fix!?
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Just wanted to confirm that this problem still persists in 0.15.9. As others have pointed out, a fix to this is essential to make Obsidian notes truly portable to any other markdown-based system.
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I recently reorganized my Obsidian folder without knowing about this bug and disabled dozens of internal links.
You seem to have let this bug go unchecked for 2 years, do you have any plans for improvement?
I use Obsidian to create Markdown Wikiās and the relative linking feature is a big reason why I use this tool.
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Hope this feature/ bug is implemented/ fixed soon. Its been more than 2 years since this was reported (now we are at v1.1.15) and not sure is this even on the list of things to be implemented/ fixed.
As a interim solution it would be great if Obsidian would show some sort of warning which indicated that when using relative path it is possible for the links to break sometimes.
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I was wondering if there was an update on plans to fix this bug? Thanks!
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While I appreciate that this is a not-intuitive, valuable, feature request from the dev teamās perspective, and I understand that implementing this will take time and from what I can read here, it is not a priority. This is all understandable, even when itās not ideal for me.
But I would urge and appreciate if the team could 
add a warning or notes directly inside the software so users are aware of the current limitation when they configure their Obsidian, where important notes are created with effort and time. This will certainly take some time of the dev team, but presumably much less than actually implementing this feature.
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I donāt want to be rude, sound criticizing, or nag ā but you have also suggested adding some warning since two years ago. Adding the warning will really do good for many of your users. I am curious if thereās any concern that I have overlooked about adding the warning. If so, it would be helpful if you wouldnāt mind sharing so we know why this warning message has yet to be added.
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At the very, very least it should be mentioned in the help docs. Currently the docs donāt even mention the relevant option.
The help docs have a GitHub where issues can be posted, and even pull requests if you feel up to it (but definitely read the README before doing that). Thereās a link to it in the āContributingā section at the bottom of the help homepage. GitHub - obsidianmd/obsidian-help: Help documentation for Obsidian.
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I just discovered the existence of this bug after spending the weekend reorganizing my vault.
As @CawlinTeffid notes, it should at āvery leastā be mentioned in the documentation. That would have spared me a lot of time and effort.
Guess I will revert back to my old vault structure (thankfully I save my work religiously) until this bug is dealt with. I donāt have the time nor the inclination to review every single work-related link.
Itās disappointing as Obsidian is my workhouse, and as time evolves so does my workflow and my ideas of how it should be implemented. It seems as if Iām now stuck with a vault structure that is no longer to my liking nor as efficient as I would like it to be.
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Iām still having this problem on ubuntu 22.04 obsidian 1.5.3v
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Unfortunately, i am still struggle with that issue. Please give some love to markdown links. 
Deleted my post, as it is non-contributory. (I misunderstood the cause of an issue I had to be relevant to this bug.)
Watching this. This would be SO beneficial. I agree with the non-intuitive tag if it means that it is not intuitive to have a setting saying āAutomatically update internal linksā that only updates relative path links when the linked-to file moves and not if the file containing the link moves.
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I just wanna know how it is going now. Still unable to update my relative links when move the file that is linkedā¦ Four years passedā¦
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Plugin GitHub - dy-sh/obsidian-consistent-attachments-and-links: Obsidian plugin. Move note with attachments. solves the mentioned issues