Chris Eller 15 Posted October 11, 2022 Share Posted October 11, 2022 I am using version 10.46.7. After a recent update, Evernote has added "http://" to any link to a local file. Previously, I linked to files on my hard drive and they have a link like /user/NAME/folder/document.docx. I could click on the link and it would open in Word and I could edit. Now, all of my links to local files have "http://" in front of the local ink - "http:///user/NAME/folder/document.docx". This opens the default browser and obviously the file is not found. This has happened to all links to local files throughout Evernote. Link to comment
Evernote Expert agsteele 3,059 Posted October 11, 2022 Evernote Expert Share Posted October 11, 2022 I think this has been an issue since the arrival of Evernote v10 although I don't link to local files so can't be sure of the chronology. I do recall others reporting that they had to create a Windows shortcut and paste that into a note. @Mike P was the Wiz in this area. Perhaps he'll be along soon. Link to comment
Solution Mike P 2,965 Posted October 11, 2022 Solution Share Posted October 11, 2022 @agsteele is correct there was a problem with links to local files in earlier versions of EN. This could be circumvented by attaching a Windows shortcut to the note. I'm happy to say that the previous behaviour was reintroduced some time ago. The correct format for the link in Windows is: file:///C:\Users\Mike\Desktop\plain_text.txt I'm afraid I don't know what the correct format for Mac is Link to comment
Chris Eller 15 Posted October 13, 2022 Author Share Posted October 13, 2022 On 10/11/2022 at 12:49 PM, Mike P said: @agsteele is correct there was a problem with links to local files in earlier versions of EN. This could be circumvented by attaching a Windows shortcut to the note. I'm happy to say that the previous behaviour was reintroduced some time ago. The correct format for the link in Windows is: file:///C:\Users\Mike\Desktop\plain_text.txt I'm afraid I don't know what the correct format for Mac is Thanks for the suggestion, Mike. This does work on Windows and for MacOS your comment reminded me of a utility called Hook that accomplishes a similar task. I replaced the links in Evernote with the Hook URL and it works perfectly. Thanks! 1 Link to comment
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