I rarely post to the message board because most of the questions are answered by someone else, but I am struggling with the newest update concerning the conversion of Wiki-Links to Item Links.
I like to convert my Wiki-Links to markdown links due to it’s stability inside and outside of Devonthink. And up until the recent update, I was able to individually select a wiki-link and right click to convert it to an item link. I can’t remember if this was built into Devonthink or a plugin. But since the update, this option no longer exist, and that would be fine except I am running into more serious issues: mainly, deleting my Wiki-Links and miss-associating other Wiki-Links. This doesn’t always happen, but it 8 times out of 10, I lose Wiki-Links. Also, there is an issue where it requires me to leave the note and come back before the “Convert Wiki-Link to Item Link” option will work.
I’m use to finding work-arounds to problems, and I am currently working on to this problem too, but I thought I would post to the forums about this issue. Systematically speaking, I would ask
Am I doing something wrong? (Since nobody has posted about his issue I can assume it might be something on my end.)
Is this a bug?
Suggestions to fix this issue?
Is there a way to pick and choose which Wiki-Links get converted to Item Links?
I don’t really have much other details to post. Everything was working fairly normal, ( I say fairly normal because before the update, I would sometimes have to try convert a Wiki-Link multiple times before it converted) until the latest update - which is a great update by-the-way.
What kind of documents do you use and which WikiLinks settings (see preferences)? There’s a known issue in case of rich text and WikiLinks based on names & aliases or MashedWords.
Both valid and invalid destinations. But it turns out, with indexing, that relative paths work, but absolute paths are not (chroot-like) constrained to the bounds of the wiki directory-hierarchy, so that absolute paths that worked in the wiki, don’t work here.
[edit] The name and aliases hits were changed to the x-devonthink-link wikilinks, but existing wiki-links were left alone. Turns out that, with indexing done, this is just fine.
The wiki is gitit, which does the web-server style chroot-jail of the directory hierarchy, so that
[biology](/studies/biology.md)
works because the “studies” directory is at the root of the wiki’s directory hierarchy, not the host system’s.
These two:
[escape route 1](/Users/wagle)
and
[escape route 2](../../../..)
both escape into the host system’s file system (and notably from that of the devonthink database).
Paths worked for me once I indexed the directory hierarchy and enabled wikilinks in preferences.
This is essential for me. My (personal) wiki works only in waterfox (the classic version goes away in maybe a year), but not firefox. Porting it to DEVONthink is the solution.