Images won't load after Vault was moved

Hi everyone, I’ve got a problem !
All my attachments (images, pdfs, etc…) don’t load in Obsidian anymore, either in edit or reading view. Earlier this year I moved to Linux (a steamdeck more specifically). At first I enabled Obsidian Sync, and also moved the location of my main vault, as it used to reside in my icloud folder.

It’s now living on a micro sd-card on my steamdeck. Everything else, all the notes, plugins, css snippets, preferences… works just like before, but I can’t see any attachments.

They are in my vault, and I can open them with the default app just fine, but I can’t see them in Obsidian. Same thing when I import new images.

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I’ve seen one topic from @frostyfriday discussing this, but it was from three years ago and his problem was solved by just updating obsidian.

If anybody has any ideas, that’d be awesome, thanks !

Hasn’t anybody had this problem before ?
I can’t seem to find a fix and it is quite troublesome.

Any hemp is appreciated

Did you have your image paths set to absolute? Or file:/// format maybe? Absolute should still work, since it is absolute to the vault’s root.

Can you paste a code-formatted example of a link to one of your images? The source mode Markdown itself.

Oh but you said new images too.

Have you tested without plugins? Test with default theme. CSS snippets turned off. Update all plugins and themes.

What is your installer version?

But maybe it just won’t work from a card like that. I don’t know.

Hi, thanks for the reply !

I’ve tested with both CSS and default theme, didn’t change anything.
Didn’t try without plugins, but I can’t see why that would mess with things ?

My obsidian is up to date and the installer is 1.9.12
All my plugins are up to date.

And a link looks like that : ![[PIÈCES JOINTES/Pasted image 20260117174722.png]]

What if you try an image that doesn’t have an accent/diacritic? (Although you said all attachments, so I doubt you have accents in every single filename. That’s likely not it.)

The limits of our imagination would be why it’s worth a test. :slight_smile:

Anyway, I have zero experience trying to load Obsidian on an SD card. Maybe that’s the issue. Did you search the forum for discussions about sd cards? I know there are a few.

https://forum.obsidian.md/search?q=sd%20card%20order%3Alatest

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I read “Linux” and “accent/diacritic” and remembered this topic:

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Ah, and that translates to “attachments”, so it is the folder where all the attachments are stored that has the accent in the folder name!

Oh my god, that solved it ! Incredible, thanks a lot guys ! Should have thought of it !

Cheers