This issue is the same in Mac Obsidian. Version 1.4.16 (Installer 1.4.13).
[Bug]: Relative path to notes notes issue when clicking. “Folder already exists” error and no file created.
Overview
The default behaviour in Obsidian is when there is a link created either in Wikilink or Markdown mode, and the note is still not present, Obsidian will try and create a new note under that name. There is no need to worry about the spaces as spaces are allowed.
This behaviour works fine when there is a
- File present in the relative path or
- There is a file or not in the absolute path.
Issue
However, when there is no file in the relative path, I get an error “Folder already exists” and Obsidian fail to create the file in the specified location.
This issue happens for both the Wikilinks and Markdown links.
Expected behaviour
When there is no file in the relative path that is linked by either Wikilink or Markdown, Obsidian should create the blank file and let the user edit it as it does for the other times.
Hope this can be solved soon. Relative paths are quite important as the notes move between vaults for re-organisation purposes. Please team, fix this. Thank you.