Error message while creating a new Daily Note

[d2s]

When running command Foam: Open Daily Note via VS Code command palette (on a Windows 10 machine), getting an error message with the following text:

Command 'Foam: Open Daily Note' resulted in an error (cannot open c:%5CUsers%5Cusername%5CDocuments%5Cnotes%5C2020-07-26.md. Detail: Unable to resolve resource c:%5CUsers%5Cusername%5CDocuments%5Cnotes%5C2020-07-26.md)

Issue seems to be that for some reason, the file path handling isn't working properly on a Windows machine. It is taking \ character and replacing it with %5C urlencoded character code.

File path urlencoded:

c:%5CUsers%5Cusername%5CDocuments%5Cnotes%5C2020-07-26.md

Working path would be (in this example):

c:\Users\username\Documents\notes\2020-07-26.md

Haven't looked at the Foam code to figure out what could be done to fix this. If someone who has a Windows machine could check if they get the same error message while trying to use the feature, it could help to verify if this is happening on a multiple computers.

Edit: File 2020-07-26.md got created, but it couldn't get opened automatically. So part of the code works.

Related to:

• Add 'Open Daily Note' Command · Issue #54 · foambubble/foam
• Add open daily note base feature by francishamel · Pull Request #79 · foambubble/foam

[jevakallio]

@d2s thanks for reporting this! It's already been reported as #160, so I'm going to close this as a duplicate and track the issue there.

Looks like a potential Windows issue. I don't have a Windows box available right now, but let me look through the source code and see if I can see anything suspicious!