# WikiLink - sometimes portion of the title gets appended after the closing \]\]'s **URL:** \ **Category:** Bug graveyard\ **Tags:** tracked\ **Created:** [March 17, 2021, 10:29pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/wikilink-sometimes-portion-of-the-title-gets-appended-after-the-closing-s/14847 "2021-03-17T22:29:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![luckman212](https://forum.obsidian.md/user_avatar/forum.obsidian.md/luckman212/32/3445_2.png) [@luckman212](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/luckman212)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2021, 10:29pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/wikilink-sometimes-portion-of-the-title-gets-appended-after-the-closing-s/14847/1 "2021-03-17T22:29:52Z")
- macOS 11.2.3 - Obsidian 0.11.7 - Vault is on iCloud Drive Not sure how to properly repro this yet (sorry) but wanted to start a thread in case anyone else has seen this and maybe wants to chime in. This has happened to me several times now. I’ll be editing a group of related notes, and after inserting a wikilink `[[foo]]` and jumping to it, upon jumping back to the original note, I’ll find that a chunk of unwanted text has glommed on to the right edge of the link. It will be some substring of the original title (but never all of it). A sample screenshot of this that I snapped earlier today is below. ![image](https://forum.obsidian.md/uploads/default/original/2X/2/22c22debd25d39f7f9484173e7b22a550690b9af.png) As of now I believe that this may have something to do with: a) the note having some bad markdown in it (unclosed tags, etc) b) the title having some combination of dashes `---` spaces or other chars in it c) corrupt internal index (?) d) bug in underlying storage e.g. iCloud - (least likely imo) ---
**Author:** ![pmbauer](https://forum.obsidian.md/user_avatar/forum.obsidian.md/pmbauer/32/10201_2.png) [@pmbauer](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/pmbauer)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2021, 4:22am UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/wikilink-sometimes-portion-of-the-title-gets-appended-after-the-closing-s/14847/2 "2021-03-18T04:22:53Z")
I may have seen this one yesterday. The glommed on text was just a visual artifact and couldn’t be selected. It went away after a `dd` (vim mode) on the line, only happened once, and haven’t reproduced it. ---
**Author:** ![luckman212](https://forum.obsidian.md/user_avatar/forum.obsidian.md/luckman212/32/3445_2.png) [@luckman212](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/luckman212)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2021, 12:20pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/wikilink-sometimes-portion-of-the-title-gets-appended-after-the-closing-s/14847/3 "2021-03-18T12:20:19Z")
@pmbauer In my case it wasn’t just a visual artifact. I opened the file in VSCode to confirm that the contents were actually modified. This is a tough one to reproduce for sure. On Discord @Licat said it was probably a 3rd party plugin but I have only what I consider to be a pretty widely-used set installed now after the last [data loss scare](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/data-loss-zero-byte-md-file-in-vault/13538), so I’m not sure. Here’s what I’m running: - Advanced Tables - Footnote - Hotkeys for starred files - Recent files - Show current note in window title - Show whitespace - Templater My latest theory is that this is happening because of some outside (or _perceived_ outside) process modifying the files while it’s being edited. I have seen this type of popup appearing lately and pretty sure I did see it the last time this happened: ![image](https://forum.obsidian.md/uploads/default/original/2X/0/07a946e3f84c9aa251ea87b79ac0259fd1962629.png) I _never_ edit my notes in 2 editors at the same time, so I’m not sure what is causing these popups to appear. I store my vault on iCloud Drive so that’s the only thing I can think of—somehow macOS could be doing this. Maybe adjusting timestamps or adding some metadata?? In any case, **is there a way to tell Obsidian to be more conservative about auto-merging these changes?** _(separate question [here](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/xxx-has-been-modified-externally-merging-changes-automatically/14874))_ How about a prompt, or better yet an option to disable this behavior? This is how Sublime does it for example: ![image](https://forum.obsidian.md/uploads/default/original/2X/2/2ac08d71d121391ecc3d12b4aa5162fb5a1eac7c.png) ---
**Author:** ![WhiteNoise](https://forum.obsidian.md/user_avatar/forum.obsidian.md/whitenoise/32/11_2.png) [@WhiteNoise](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/WhiteNoise)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2021, 4:21pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/wikilink-sometimes-portion-of-the-title-gets-appended-after-the-closing-s/14847/4 "2021-03-18T16:21:35Z")
Can you repro this with no third-party plugins enabled? ---
**Author:** ![luckman212](https://forum.obsidian.md/user_avatar/forum.obsidian.md/luckman212/32/3445_2.png) [@luckman212](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/luckman212)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2021, 6:07pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/wikilink-sometimes-portion-of-the-title-gets-appended-after-the-closing-s/14847/5 "2021-03-18T18:07:23Z")
@WhiteNoise I can’t even repro it _with_ the plugins enabled. It’s elusive but definitely happens to me daily. I will try running for a bit without any plugins… ---
**Author:** ![WhiteNoise](https://forum.obsidian.md/user_avatar/forum.obsidian.md/whitenoise/32/11_2.png) [@WhiteNoise](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/WhiteNoise)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2022, 4:10pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/wikilink-sometimes-portion-of-the-title-gets-appended-after-the-closing-s/14847/6 "2022-10-13T16:10:59Z")
Archived on October 13, 2022, 4:10pm UTC