I am facing problem with embedding images within notes.
When I copy and paste images from the net (the URL is pasted) tentatively I can see the image in preview mode. But after a few hours I can only see the thumbnail icon. I have no dots or other characters in the file or folder name whatsoever.
The main problem that I’m facing, is that if I download the images in a local folder on my PC and try embedding that in any note, it doesn’t happen. When I drag and drop the image in the note, nothing happens. When I copy the image and try to paste it in the note by left clicking, the paste option is disabled
However, the images do get embedded in any note in the ‘Obsidian Help’ Vault. But that doesn’t work for any other vault.
I’m using a Windows 10 laptop and I recently updated from version 0.11.3 to 0.11.5 but in both versions, the issue persisted. I’ve tried creating new vaults and tried embedding images but to no avail. The images that I was trying to embed were jpegs and pngs. Dunno whether it’s a bug or what.
It brings you to a “Access Denied, Request Access” page. I requested access, but I don’t use Windows, so I might not be of great help.
It seems like it might be some kind of a permissions problem.
What is the path to your vault?
In the settings there is “Default location for new attachments”. What do you have set in this setting? If you chose a path, is it a valid path that exists that you can write files to?
Tentatively, changing the attachments folder path has solved this problem. By setting a separate folder for attachments within the vault, I can attach the images by linking to the attachment using double brackets. Copy paste and drag and drop still don’t work, but at least I’ve found a way around it. Thanks a ton!
That still sounds problematic, and worth investigating and solving. Being able to copy/paste and drag is very convenient, and should work.
When you chose an “Attachment folder path”, does that folder already exist? Did you make the folder first? If not, if you DO add the folder, does it begin working?
What is the path to your vault? If there is no private information in your path, can you paste it as it is, exactly?
If you can’t paste it, are there any non-alphanumeric characters in your path? (language accents for example).
I don’t really know how to use the developer tools. In the menu View → Developer Tools. Inside there, if you click on “Console” there may be a chance you see some errors or warnings about why it is failing. (Maybe not.)
One other question, just in case: What installer version of Obsidian did you use? If you look in “About” you’ll see “Current version:” and “Installer version:”
There were some releases a long time ago, where it was necessary to reinstall with a more recent installer to enable new features.
@abcake_69 It seems like there are a few people who may be experiencing trouble by using their Documents folder as their vault. (Super not recommended!)
Did you use C:/UserName/Documents as your vault?
Or did you make a folder inside C:/UserName/Documents/YourVaultName as your vault?
If you are using “Documents” or “My Documents” directly, that might be the cause of your problem.
Hi, I am having the same issue. Did you find a solution? I only have one folder on a shared drive as vault, and it’s specifically images that are giving me the trouble.
Hi, yes, sure, I was hoping that’s a bug that everybody knows Thanks for looking into this.
My configuration is (overly complex): hard drive of a desktop computer which is shared on home network. Obsidian vault is one of the subfolders. Two laptops have Obsidian installation that uses this vault. One more laptop has a local vault which syncs with shared drive folder via SyncThing. All computers are Windows 10.
Error: Failed to load resource:net::ERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND.
This only happens with images, regardless of vault subfolder. Eg. PDFs located in the same place open within Obsidian without issues. I am able to open these images from Windows Explorer from the same computer that Obsidian is installed on.
I don’t have this issue on a laptop that has a local vault (synced to the shared drive vault).
On all laptops the Obsidian version is 0.13.31, installer 0.11.13, and OS is Windows 10.
So… personally I don’t know, and can’t help really.
But silly question: When specifying your attachments settings: What are your settings? And if you specify a folder, did you use the auto-complete, or type it manually? When typing the path, you should see a dropdown of matches, and then you can select the match to make absolute sure you don’t have a typo.
But I doubt that’s the issue. This seems more like a permissions problem of some kind. …probably?
In the latest Obsidian, if you hold Alt while dragging an image into Obsidian, it pastes a full path file:/// link to the image on your filesystem. If you drag the image from the vault folder where it is failing, does that work? (Not as a solution, but as a test.)
It might be worth updating Obsidian to the latest installer. There may have been some major updates to CodeMirror. I haven’t kept close track of that.
Thanks for looking into this.