Foam Treating Links to Images as Nonexistent Notes

[micharris42]

Describe the bug

I updated a note with a link to an image today, and after saving the file, the link to the image turned yellow (to signify a nonexistent note) and hovering over it brought up the popup to create a new note. Likewise, clicking on the link now creates a new note, rather then taking me to the image file. The file name will show up in the Placeholders section of the sidebar.

The image is still showing up in the preview, so the image link is recognized by VSCodium, just not Foam.

This is new behavior, so it seems most likely to be a bug introduced with the latest version of Foam.

Thank you.

Small Reproducible Example

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Steps to Reproduce the Bug or Issue

1. Create a link to an image file.
2. Save the document.
3. Foam will treat the link as a nonexistent note.

Expected behavior

That upon creating a link to an image file, Foam does not treat it as a nonexistent note.

Screenshots or Videos

The link to the image file, colored yellow:

The image file listed in the Placeholders section of the sidebar:

The image displayed in the preview:

Operating System Version

Windows 10

Visual Studio Code Version

VSCodium 1.77.3

Additional context

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[riccardoferretti]

Hi @micharris42 - I tried to reproduce it, but without success. I notice the file is in a .foam dir?
I literally today pushed a commit to explicitly ignore anything under .foam.

1. could this be the cause of your issue?
2. is it on purpose that you are using that folder?
3. if so, why?

[micharris42]

@riccardoferretti, yes, have just tried moving the image file to another folder, and that has solved the issue! Thank you.

Yes, I was intentionally keeping my image files saved in .foam. No in-depth reason. Just wanted all of my files in one place, and putting them in the .foam dir just got them out of the way. Can—and have—solved this by creating an assets folder for image files.

I do believe this issue may be considered Closed.

One thing I would like to add. Also gave putting my image files into a .assets folder a go as well, and that ended up with the same result as when the files were saved to .foam. Not sure if this is intentional, but at the moment Foam seems to ignore all "dot" folders, not just .foam.

Best.

[micharris42]

@riccardoferretti, sorry for the re-open, close, re-open, but I think I have found an additional issue.

I do not like to include my image files in my graph, so for both .foam and assets, I added the folders to the "foam.files.ignore" setting.

After doing so, my image file links are back to being treated as nonexistent notes:

Is this a bug, or is this the intended behavior?

Thank you.

[riccardoferretti]

That setting will completely hide a file from Foam, so from its point of view the file doesn't exist.
What you want should be achievable with Note Filters, but it has not been integrated in the graph command yet

[riccardoferretti]

Also, by default attachments, including images are not shown in the graph, isn't that right?

[micharris42]

@riccardoferretti, thank you for the clarification, as well as your patience with me in getting this sorted out.

Removing the folder(s) from the Foam ignore list has resolved the issue. I do apologize; I had misread the directions and thought the setting only ignored files for the purpose of the Graph view. A second reading proved that this was not the case.

This has been a good push to do a clean up of the non-Markdown assets in my Foam workspace.

Putting this issue down as Closed. Thank you again.

Best.