Creating a note/folder with a title that starts with '.' displays differently in different OSs

mitzimbj · 2020-06-03T22:58:37.344Z

On macOS, I created a folder with a title .inbox to keep it sorted at the top. I could interact with that folder normally inside the Obsidian application.

When I tried to access that Vault from a Windows version of Obsidian, that folder was hidden from view. I checked the underlying file system and it did exist, but the Windows app wouldn’t see it.

I get that . folders are supposed to be hidden on *nix systems, but why can I see it on macOS and not Windows?

ksandvik · 2020-06-04T00:18:19.837Z

I think that’s also a setting in Finder/MacOSX to show and hide .extensions.
_ is your friend.

Silver · 2020-06-04T02:10:05.625Z

. folders are hidden from the file explorer because of the convention. I understand it’s visible in the Windows file explorer, but things like .git and .sync have caused issues with the file explorer, and so we started hiding them starting 0.5.0.

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mitzimbj · 2020-06-04T14:23:39.879Z

I wanted _ to be my friend, but then backlinks are italicized. So maybe that’s the bug report. Italicization (or bolding) should take effect until the matching token is typed.

AlexanderSavenkov · 2020-06-06T11:02:58.215Z

Safer to go with a ! or number 0 as a leading character I guess.