How to Link file from anywhere outside Obsidian Vault

[ariehen]

Their syntax looks good and the %20 will take care of the space though.

Something else is going on

Lots of examples here:

Linking to external files & folders

Linking to external files is mentioned in the drag and drop help documentation Hold Ctrl on Windows/Linux or Option on macOS to create file:/// absolute links to those files instead of importing a copy. but there aren’t any examples of the options available. I’ll write up a request to add some examples to the official help documentation, but for the time being, here’s a list I’ve collected. Windows UPDATE: from Obsidian v1.5.11 on, use forward slashes in paths external link to file (Windo…