I am trying make a page with instructions on how to find a particular file
Bing images are stored on my computer at C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Microsoft\BingWallpaperApp\WPImages
The way that line appears above is how I want it to appear in Obsidian, but it shows up like this:
CUsersUSERNAMEAppDataLocalMicrosoftBingWallpaperAppWPImages
Things I have tried
![text]C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Microsoft\BingWallpaperApp\WPImages)
which results in the broken image emoji plus the word “text”.
![text] C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Microsoft\BingWallpaperApp\WPImages)
which just adds the space between the ] and the C, otherwise, like the original result.
Either change to using forward slashes, or double up on the slashes, \\, to produce a single backslash in the text \. This is due to the backslash being used to escape various other characters, to escape their ordinary meaning, but it does lead to the need to escape itself when you actually want the backslash.
In some contexts, you could also consider doing:
<code>c:\user\some\thing</code>
or
`c:\user\some\thing`
Which achieves similar effects, but also styles the text slightly different.