Hey all! I’m trying to link scrivener files to AeonTimeline, but when I use the link from ‘Copy Document Link’ it doesn’t register. I tried copying the URL into my Finder address bar and it can’t the file either, so kind of at a loss at this point.
We recently had another report on this, so it’s something we’re looking into. I believe the trigger is spaces in the file path, so if it’s possible for you to avoid that—e.g. if the project name is “My Masterpiece” change it to “MyMasterpiece”—that may be all you need to get the external links working for now.
If there are spaces but they’re further up the path, e.g. in your user home folder, that will be a little trickier. It’s possible to make a symlink for the project folder and link to it that way, by replacing the initial part of the original link with the path to the symlink, but that’s a bit more work.
No-spaces symlink workaround
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Run the command prompt with administrator privileges.
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Create a new folder (here called “aliases”) at the root level (or whatever level is necessary to avoid spaces in the path), e.g.:
mkdir C:\aliases -
Create a symbolic link with no spaces “MyProject.scriv” directory inside that, which points to the real one in the its original directory:
mklink /D C:\aliases\MyProject.scriv "C:\User Name With Spaces\Scrivener Projects\My Project.scriv" -
Edit the external document link (wherever you’ve pasted it) to change the initial part of the path to the symlink, so it reads, for example,
x-scrivener-item://C:/aliases/MyProject.scriv?id=5ED8761E-ECFE-49B0-A162-0B96D2FE4156(made up UUID, but you get the idea)
That can be done for any projects you want to link to (once you’ve created the “aliases” folder, you can skip that step and just create additional symlinks within that); once the symlink is created, then its path can be used to replace the initial project path in any external document links. If you want to take this route, I suggest copying the symlink path somewhere easy to access in the Scrivener project (a project note or a file at the top of the binder?) so it’s easy to copy and paste that replacement path.
Of course, if you have no spaces in your original path, then something else is going on, and additional details would help. What is the example path, and what happens when you click it? And is that identical path working from Word and LO? (Also, not sure this matters, but Win10 or Win11?)
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Well, the good news is taking out all the spaces worked in fixing it for File Explorer/URLs, but for some reason it’s still not working for AeonTimeline, but that might just be a software issue on their side. Whenever I upload the link to AeonTimeline, it just says ‘There is no file at the path specified’.
My problem is at least partially solved though, thank you!
I tried forcing it through the File Address, but now it says ‘You can’t open this location using this program.’ which might be related to the link length not playing nice with AeonTimeline, or folder permission levels.