Import of markdown directory only adds linked images

[ghost]

When importing Markdown from a directory I can successfully import linked images such as ![image](/uploads/c9e3d083363999c2486dfdc97d642bc6/image.png). These get transformed into something like ![image](:/ac0125f1effe4bd19ed096d6135fcec8). However, other files such as pdfs or pptx cannot be successfully imported. The link remains as is and the file cannot be opened from within Joplin.

Environment

Joplin version: 1.4.19
Platform: Windows

Steps to reproduce

1. Create a directory with a markdown file refering to a non-image file within this directory.
2. Import this directory into Joplin

Describe what you expected to happen

The non-image file does not get imported.

[stale]

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[ghost]

The issue still persists and should be fixed/implemented.

[mightomi]

I looked into this issue, I found that ![some pdf](some.pdf) won't work since markdown doesn't support PDF.
And also something like <embed src="some.pdf" type="application/pdf"> wont work because of directory issue.
@ab791520b4 can you share how you were adding the .pdf to the markdown.

[roman-r-m]

@ab791520b4 can you share how you were adding the .pdf to the markdown.

Just a guess but probably something like [](file://path/to/file.pdf)

[ghost]

I am trying to import Markdown files as I get them via the Gitlab API [1]. I am trying to import Gitlab issue comments I exported to a local directory tree. The way gitlab stores links to attached files is

[something](/uploads/subdir/filename.extension)

I store the files analogously in the directory I am trying to import into Joplin. Meaning there exists a top-level uploads directory in the directory to import. This should work imho as it does for images.

[1] https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/notes.html#list-project-issue-notes

[ron-debajyoti]

Perhaps this issue is similar and can resolve the current issue.

[ghost]

I created a small example directory for importing:

joplin-import-test.zip