#1

In short, Quick Switcher can not work well with the folder / article whose name includes pound key.

This bug can engender several situations:

  1. The pound key is at the front of the folder / article name, etc # reproduction. In this situation, it will turn to create an Untitled one when you try to navigate to the file.
  2. The pound key is in the end of the folder / article name, etc reproduction #. In this situation, it will turn to create a file named without pound key when you try to navigate to the file, etc reproduction.

In both this situations, Quick Switcher can located the file and display them as usual.

#2

This symbol isn’t compatible with actual file names on some operating systems and therefore isn’t recognized by Obsidian, either. If I recall correctly, they show up when you’ve imported a note. You can’t actually create one within Obsidian.

Best bet is to not use them in note titles (ergo file names) at all.

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#3

On macOS 10.15.6, it could be created successful. But, you’re right, I should avoid to use this symbol

#4

I’m on macOS as well, and yes, our superior operating system can handle things like “#” in filenames.

Sadly this kind of futuristic advanced computing capability is not available to our friends on Windows, and because Obsidian is cross-platform, the app only recognizes a restricted character set to accommodate our anachronistic peers.

Not that I’m bitter…

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#5

I’ve got it. It can be really disappointed if Obsidian make a different rule for different OS that engender some OS depended bugs. And the best way, of course, is to accommodate the incompatible one. I’ve make a feature request to ask for a Sticky Folder function which could help me do the same thing but without using pound key.

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