Steps to reproduce
- Backlink to the active page by clicking “Link” in the Backlinks-Sidepanel
- On some occasions it happens, sometimes it doesn’t
Expected result
- It should just simply link the page name like normal
Actual result
- Sometimes it moves the linking-portion a couple characters infront, creating a garbled character-mess
- In this example, I am in the page called “CRP”, but when clicking on “Link” in the sidebar it didn’t place the backlink on the characters “CRP” in the other page, but instead a couple letters infront
Environment
- Operating system: Windows 10
- Obsidian version: v0.12.3
Additional information
This is a really annoying issue, as I regularly end up having to fix the garbled mess by hand. Any help is greatly appreciated!
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I am not sure I understand you problem. I can’t repro it.
Can you post some reproduceble steps with actual text that couses this?
It is inconsistent unfortunately. Sometimes it works just fine, then when I try the same linking again it acts like described.
I tried disabling all plugins, snippets and themes, removed my .obsidian folder and even reinstalled Obsidian alltogether. That did not fix it, unfortunately. Any ideas?
Trying to describe my steps a bit better:
- I have a page called “Untersuchung”. Another page, let’s call it “Page B” has the word “Untersuchung” in it and I want to link back to the Untersuchung-Page from the backlinks-sidebar (by clicking on the link-button)
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Expected behaviour: Orientierende [[Untersuchung]]
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Actual behaviour: Orientierende[[Untersuchung|nde Untersuchung]]chung
This happens about every tenth time, I try this. I have a feeling, it happens more frequently, when I backlink a lot in a row.
Ok, I understand your problem. Unfortunately, I have tried some variations and I couldn’t repro.
If you find reproducible steps, especially something that can be reproduced in the help vault, please let me know.
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Just want to add that I have experienced this exact bug as well. I also tried to figure out a reliable way to reproduce it and failed to do so. Since I’m on a Mac and the OP is using Windows, it’s doubtful this is an OS/platform bug. I haven’t seen this one for a while but since I’m pretty focused on these data loss bugs these days and seem to be quite “lucky” to hit all of these edge cases, I will try again to repro it.
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Steps to reproduce
I clicked to “link this file” under the outgoing link tab.
Expected result
I expected it to link the word in the present file to the proper link.
Actual result
The words were jumbled up and the link was created where the cursor was?
Environment
- Operating system: Windows10
- Obsidian version: 12.5
Additional information
If you are willing to share, could you DM me or @Licat on discord Matthew.md and Knox_Mathew_1.md so we can reproduce this problem?
Sure, it seems random though. If I “undo” and click it again it will be normal.
This is the most annoying bug in the world. I posted about it here too… It seems like Obsidian doesn’t catch up to the page’s changes before trying to add a link. The worst part is that “undo” undoes more than just the last thing that was linked via the outgoing links page (so not just the garbled link, but also the links that were fine). So, gotta manually go in and fix the last messed up link.
Outgoing links suggestion clicking needs more checks in place to make sure it’s not linking in the wrong place. It needs to see that the page has been changed and doesn’t match what it thinks is there. I’m guessing it gets set to replace at a specific line/character from-to and then the page changes (because the change was pending) and then it doesn’t even notice and still replaces at the spot that it was set on.
