# V1.5.11 Broke all my links to files stored on a network shared drive

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**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [March 22, 2024, 4:15pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/v1-5-11-broke-all-my-links-to-files-stored-on-a-network-shared-drive/79077 "2024-03-22T16:15:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![marwun01](https://forum.obsidian.md/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/7993a0/32.png) [@marwun01](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/marwun01)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2024, 4:15pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/v1-5-11-broke-all-my-links-to-files-stored-on-a-network-shared-drive/79077/1 "2024-03-22T16:15:24Z")

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I’m putting this in the help section as I’m not convinced yet that this is a bug.

Here’s my issue:  
I have many links in my notes to various documents & media files that I keep stored on a shared network attached storage drive. I work in a Windows desktop environment. These links are all in the form [doc name](\<file:///\\device name\folder\sub folder\doc name.pdf\>) and these all worked flawlessly until Obsidian self updated itself to v1.5.11. I have been using Obsidian since 2019/2020 so these links have built up over time and have always worked fine.

Now, none of them work. Two things happen when I click the link:

1. I immediately get a “Remote file warning” pop-up telling me the file is located on a remote server and may not be safe.  
 ![Obsidian_k9ZjmHCJ0y](https://forum.obsidian.md/uploads/default/original/3X/7/9/79fc6a2319fc23c213240c57912bfadc953388a3.png)

2. Clicking the link from 1 immediately gives me this error msg:  
 ![Obsidian_MWVlxEoiw1](https://forum.obsidian.md/uploads/default/original/3X/f/0/f0cf1eb973445ec4d846fc90e2dd1806c9539a65.png)

ALL of these links worked fine until the v1.5.11 update then I began seeing msgs 1&2 above.

Resolution:  
I did see from this [post](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/linking-to-external-files-folders/70121) that replacing “\\” in the link path with “%5C%5” will resolve the error in image 2 above and actually open the linked file, but I still get the annoying overly protective nag screen in image 1.

My questions:

1. Why now? what changed in v1.5.11 to produce this unexpected behavior. Don’t see anything mentioned in the [changelog](https://obsidian.md/changelog/).
2. Do I really need to change ALL my links to use “%5C%5” from “\\” ?? That’s a terrible user experience if so and would require much work. …which would naturally bring up questions like: what other nasty surprises might I encounter later on? How much do I want to invest in this platform?? etc.
3. How do I suppress the nag warning in image 1? I haven’t yet found that as an option anywhere in the settings. These files are on my servers - I don’t need to see this msg for each instance I happen to click a link to my remote servers.

Thanks for reading this far!!

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**Author:** ![ilMoro](https://forum.obsidian.md/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/e9a140/32.png) [@ilMoro](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/ilMoro)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2024, 7:23am UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/v1-5-11-broke-all-my-links-to-files-stored-on-a-network-shared-drive/79077/2 "2024-04-23T07:23:34Z")

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I have the exact same problem (which is reported also [here](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/local-file-link-to-network-locations-not-working-after-update-to-1-5-11/79067)).

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**Author:** ![system](https://forum.obsidian.md/uploads/default/original/3X/b/e/bec35fbd23ab28909bb6bfe62cb32eb82dd34019.png) [@system](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2024, 7:24am UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/v1-5-11-broke-all-my-links-to-files-stored-on-a-network-shared-drive/79077/3 "2024-07-22T07:24:01Z")

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Closed on July 22, 2024, 7:24am UTC

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