Setting to block users from naming files and folders with characters reserved for / conflict with linking

Feature requests
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Use case or problem

Obsidian allows you to rename your files and folders with reserved link syntax. I thought this was a bug at first, but actually this is part of the design:

The issue is that if a top level folder or highly linked note is changed to have a link syntax character like #, [, ], ^ then all links would update and break, since links will not be detectable anymore. So, now any future renaming of the file or folder will not update links.

Proposed solution

Allow a setting that a user can toggle, that would ban them from using link syntax characters in their folders or files.

Perhaps this new setting I am proposing, should be turned on when a new user downloads obsidian. And only when they know what they are doing, can they manually go into the settings and turn it off

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I strongly super this feature request.

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renamed for clarity

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I also noticed that when I download images they sometimes created with forbidden characters like * which causes some issues.

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This plugin works quite well:

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This FR is not about OS level forbidden characters (which should not even be possible). This FR is for the characters that obsidian uses for linking, like [ and |