Photos, videos, and gifs bug in files bar

I am using an outdated third party community plugin, called “Attachment Name Formatting” and that plugin is causing a bug to occur. Here’s the bug:

When inserting images, gifs, or videos into a file, the names of those attachments pop up in the Files tab. I created a special folder for those attachments, putting them all in the folder that I named: “_Images, GIF’s, and Videos”.

Sometimes, when exiting out of files with those attachments, the names of those attachments will randomly pop up in the Files tab - escaping the “_Images, GIF’s, and Videos” folder I created for them to stay in.

Is there a fix for this issue?

What I’m trying to do

I’m trying to have all photos, videos, and gifs in a neat folder in the files tab.

Things I have tried

  1. Checked the plugin’s settings: If “custom subfolders per attachment type” is enabled, disable it. Also, I set the “one-to-many” handling to “NoChange”.

  2. My folder name: “_Images, GIF’s, and Videos” has a comma and apostrophe - special characters can sometimes trip up plugins or file systems. Renamed it to something plain like “_Images_GIFs_Videos”, but that did not work.

  3. Searched for temp files, but found none: The plugin mentions creating “tmp_xxx” files for conflicts.

  4. Updated Obsidian to the latest version.

The best thing to do is likely to file an issue on the plugin’s Github page. (or see if it’s already discussed there.)

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It’s been outdated for quite some time, and no one over there mentioned anything pertaining to my issue - that’s why I brought it up over here to see if anyone had a workaround >…<

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