Every once in a while, and I can’t seem to find a pattern to this behavior, when I attempt to make an internal link, the resulting link is using the relative path [[…/…/path-to-file]] and then I into the preferences and see that it’s set to “Relative Path to File”. So, I update it to “Shortest Path when Possible” and it works again.
Everything will work fine for some time and then again, randomly, I go to make a link and it’s back to “Relative”. There seems to be reason to it.
Things I have tried
I have uninstalled and re-installed. Not sure what else to try.
My app currently shows v0.13.7 with installer version 0.12.19.
Hmm I don’t think so. This vault resides on a computer with no other vaults. And the Sync plugin is not even turned on for this vault. I do use git to push these to github every once in a while, but I don’t make changes to this vault anywhere else.
Just to be sure, I checked, and the .obsidian/app.json hasn’t changed in github for 21 days so I don’t think anything is changing the file outside of Obsidian.
Interestingly, I just closed Obsidian and launched it and the setting had reverted back to Relative. I changed it, closed it, and relaunched and it stayed. I wonder if it’s possible that one of my plugins is making that change?
Hmm, that is a couple of plugins… To be honest, I don’t use most of the plugins from your list, so I really don’t have any idea… Does one of your plugins maybe (directly or indirectly) influence the way links are created/altered?
EDIT: So I just turned off all of my community plugins and the setting correctly stayed on Shortest path when possible and did not keep incorrectly changing to Relative path to file. I suggest disabling all your plugins and then re-enabling them one by one to see which one is the culprit.