Obsidian URL in Windows shortcut does not open Vault [update]

[Norbert]

What I’m trying to do

I want to create a Windows Shortcut which opens a vault. But it alway opens the obsidian vault selector instead.

Things I have tried

I tried an Internet shortcut with an URI to the vault itself

[{000214A0-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}]
Prop3=19,0
[InternetShortcut]
IDList=
URL=obsidian://open?vault=Norbert&file=Vault%2F_index

And an URI to a file (lifted from here Obsidian URI - Obsidian Help )

[{000214A0-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}]
Prop3=19,0
[InternetShortcut]
IDList=
URL=obsidian://open?vault=Norbert&file=Vault%2F_index

In both cases The vault is not opened, but the vault sleector instead.

UPDATE

same with

[{000214A0-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}]
Prop3=19,0
[InternetShortcut]
IDList=
URL=obsidian://open?vault=Norbert

Presumably something trivial … can anyone help here ?

[dawni]

spaces are %20
your %2 is missing a zero

[Norbert]

@dawni No, this is no space but a slash … and that may be the problem The path is “Vault/_index”.

[dawni]

Ah, then I too suspect that’s the cause. OSs tend to view slashes as marking the end of a directory (folder).

The rest of your shortcut looks right from here. You could quickly test by making a vault without a slash and creating a shortcut to that, just to confirm that nothing else is amiss.

[Norbert]

@dawni

You could quickly test by making a vault without a slash and creating a shortcut to that, just to confirm that nothing else is amiss.

This doesn’t work too, seee my update in the original post

[dawni]

Hmm, I made a “Norbert” vault and copy-pasted your URI into a shortcut and it worked (on Windows).

What about when you use this link instead, which also worked for me just now:

obsidian://vault/Norbert