Pretty sure it’s 64-bit. VM on Parallels on my MacBook with the default license and settings. Can’t imagine why it would matter anyway.
I’m stumped. I’d suggest you post this on the Anki forums at https://forums.ankiweb.net since it’s an Anki issue at this point. On Friday, November 13, 2020 at 9:42:30 AM UTC-6 si wrote: > Hi Soren. > > >>> Do other links to websites work in Anki? Perhaps your default browser > is configured wrong and Anki can't figure out what to do with links. > > I have no problem with Anki opening websites. Anything with the prefix > "https://"; will open in the browser, but when I use "file://" nothing > happens. > > I also tried this on a totally different Windows 10 machine with an almost > fresh install and still it wouldn't work. It also didn't work when I tried > clicking the link from AnkiWeb. This was all with me creating the link > exactly as you describe above (the file opens if I copy the path directly > into the browser). > > Did you try it on a 64 bit Windows 10, or some earlier version (no idea if > that would matter)? > > On Friday, 13 November 2020 at 13:20:43 UTC soren.b...@gmail.com wrote: > >> I just tried it on Windows and it works fine for me. Downloaded an HTML >> to my desktop and added to the card: >> >> <a href="file://C:/Users/soren/Desktop/test.html">link</a> >> >> Click the link and test.html opens in the browser. >> >> I'm on Anki 2.1.34 (a couple versions behind, but can't think of anything >> that would have changed here). >> >> Do other links to websites work in Anki? Perhaps your default browser is >> configured wrong and Anki can't figure out what to do with links. >> >> On Friday, November 13, 2020 at 6:18:22 AM UTC-6 si wrote: >> >>> Hi Soren thanks for your reply. >>> >>> >>> The URL you list is not a valid file: URL, however -- it needs to >>> use forward slashes even on Windows. >>> >>> Thanks, I wasn't sure which to use here but I had tried every >>> combination and it still didn't work. >>> >>> >>> It does appear that the permalink generation in TiddlyRemember >>> applied during the sync is incorrectly putting a backslash at the end of >>> URLs that can't accept one there. >>> >>> I had noticed this, but I have tested with the correct permalink and it >>> still won't work. I've also tried putting the HTML directly into the card >>> (<a >>> href="file:///C:/Users/Si/Desktop/file.html">link</a> using >>> Ctrl+Shift+X), but again when I click the link while viewing the card >>> nothing happens. >>> >>> I've noticed that there is an add-on >>> <https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/879473266> for opening files in an >>> external program. I got it to work with an HTML file, but because it looks >>> for a specific extension at the end of the path, it doesn't work with >>> permalinks that end in "#tiddler". >>> >>> Is it possible that Anki just can't open external HTML files on Windows? >>> On Friday, 13 November 2020 at 00:08:42 UTC soren.b...@gmail.com wrote: >>> >>>> Si, >>>> >>>> It works for me when I just paste an <a href> tag into the HTML editor >>>> directly on a card (Ctrl-Shift-X while you have a field selected). The URL >>>> you list is not a valid file: URL, however -- it needs to use forward >>>> slashes even on Windows. It's possible that is the issue, but I don't have >>>> a Windows machine handy at the moment to test on and see if that breaks >>>> something. >>>> >>>> It does appear that the permalink generation in TiddlyRemember applied >>>> during the sync is incorrectly putting a backslash at the end of URLs that >>>> can't accept one there. On my first try I ended up with >>>> "/home/soren/test.html/#TiddlerName" as the permalink, which is invalid >>>> since an HTML file is not a directory, and this resulted in nothing >>>> happening when I clicked the link. I opened an issue >>>> <https://github.com/sobjornstad/TiddlyRemember/issues/31> for that. To >>>> see if this is what's causing your problem, you can try manually changing >>>> the text in the Permalink field of a card and removing that extra slash. >>>> >>>> On Thursday, November 12, 2020 at 3:55:47 PM UTC-6 si wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi Soren. >>>>> >>>>> This might be more of an Anki question, but I have been unable to get >>>>> permalinks to work in the way that you describe here >>>>> <https://sobjornstad.github.io/TiddlyRemember/#Configuring%20the%20Anki%20add-on> >>>>> . >>>>> >>>>> It seems to me that Anki won't open files that are outside of the >>>>> "collection.media" folder. I've been trying all sorts of permutations of >>>>> <a >>>>> href="file:///C:\path\to\file.html">link</a> but when I click the >>>>> link nothing happens. >>>>> >>>>> Is there some trick to get this to work that I'm not aware of? >>>>> >>>>> On Saturday, 30 May 2020 at 14:13:39 UTC+1 soren.b...@gmail.com wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> It's a thought. A simple SR algorithm is not particularly hard, so >>>>>> that would be doable. But recently I've been seeing sites pop up that >>>>>> all >>>>>> do their own spaced-repetition implementation, and the result is if you >>>>>> use >>>>>> more than one of them, pretty soon you have 8 places to go every day to >>>>>> review flashcards. I'd rather not be responsible for a fifteenth >>>>>> competing standard <https://xkcd.com/927/>. >>>>>> >>>>>> Anki also has a really nice mobile app, which is something TW still >>>>>> struggles with. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Saturday, May 30, 2020 at 5:07:12 AM UTC-5, TonyM wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Build the whole solution in tiddlywiki would do it. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Tony >>>>>>> >>>>>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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