How link to any local file with markdown syntax

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I have a local markdown file containing several links and I want that links head to local file like pdf   I use the following syntax    my link  file    C  my file pdf    But when I open my markdown file into a Firefox page and click on the link  nothing happens   What exactly have I missed  Is it possible to open local file

User · Accepted Answer

How are you opening the rendered Markdown?

If you host it over HTTP, i.e. you access it via http:// or https://, most modern browsers will refuse to open local links, e.g. with file://. This is a security feature:

For security purposes, Mozilla applications block links to local files (and directories) from remote files. This includes linking to files on your hard drive, on mapped network drives, and accessible via Uniform Naming Convention (UNC) paths. This prevents a number of unpleasant possibilities, including:

Allowing sites to detect your operating system by checking default installation paths

Allowing sites to exploit system vulnerabilities (e.g., C:\con\con in Windows 95/98)

Allowing sites to detect browser preferences or read sensitive data

There are some workarounds listed on that page, but my recommendation is to avoid doing this if you can.

User · Answer

You link to a local file the same way you link to local images   Here is an example to link to file start caQtDM 7id sh in the same directory as the markdown source     start caQtDM 7id sh    start caQtDM 7id sh

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This is a old question  but to me it still doesn t seem to have a complete answer to the OP s question  The chosen answer about security being the possible issue is actually often not the problem when using the Firefox  Markdown Viewer  plug-in in my experience  Also  the OP seems to be using MS-Windows  so there is the added issue of specifying different drives    So  here is a little more complete yet simple answer for the  Markdown Viewer  plug-in on Windows  and other Markdown renderers I ve seen   just enter the local path as you would normally  and if it is an absolute path make sure to start it with a slash  So    a relative link        some dir filename md   Link to file in another dir on same drive   another dir filename md   Link to file in another dir on a different drive   D  dir filename md    That last one was probably what the OP was looking for given their example  Note this can also be used to display directories rather than files   Though late  I hope this helps

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Thank you drifty0pine   The first solution  it  s works   a relative link        some dir filename md   Link to file in another dir on same drive   another dir filename md   Link to file in another dir on a different drive   D  dir filename md   but I had need put  more     until the folder where was my file  like this   FileToOpen              folderW folderX folderY folderZ FileToOpen txt

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If you have spaces in the filename  try these    file    file 20with 20spaces md   file   lt   file with spaces md gt     First one seems more reliable

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After messing around with  BringBackCommodore64 answer I figured it out   link  file    d  absolute md       absolute filesystem path  link    relative1 md               relative to opened file  link   relativeToProject md        relative to opened project   All of them tested in Visual Studio Code and working   Note  The absolute path works in editor but doesn t work in markdown preview mode

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If the file is in the same directory as the one where the  md is  then just putting  Click here  MY-FILE md  should work   Otherwise  can create a path from the root directory of the project  So if the entire project git-repo root directory is called  my-app   and one wants to point to my-app client read-me md  then try  My hyperlink   client read-me md    At least works from Chrome

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None of the answers worked for me  But inspired in BarryPye s answer I found out it works when using relative paths      Contents from the   media user README 1 md  markdown file   Read more  here    README 2 md    It works  Read more  here  file    media user README 2 md    Doesn t work Read more  here   media user README 2 md    Doesn t work

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