Symlinks are not followed when loading a Graph/Directory

[Dietr1ch]

What happened?

I have a few notes that are physically outside my graph's directory, and they do not show up. This setup works fine when using emacs and org-roam.

Reproduce the Bug

mkdir -p /tmp/TestDocuments/Org/
echo "* TODO fix logseq symlinks" > /tmp/TestDocuments/Org/TODO.org

mkdir /tmp/TestDocuments/Org/Roam
echo "* Boring note" > /tmp/TestDocuments/Org/Roam/Boring.org
ln -s /tmp/TestDocuments/Org/TODO.org /tmp/TestDocuments/Org/Roam/

Now, when loading the graph /tmp/TestDocuments/Org/Roam I'd expect to find those 2 files, but I can only find the one that's not behind a symlink.

Expected Behavior

The file behind the symlink should be loaded too

Screenshots

Desktop Platform Information

• OS :: Linux 5.17.9 #1-NixOS SMP PREEMPT
• Logseq :: v0.6.9

Mobile Platform Information

No response

Additional Context

I sync some notes outside my Zettelkasten, so a few programs/use cases can access just a few of them (orgzly, syncthing, files that belong to a project), I can't use a symlink in the other direction as things like sync and backups would break.

[Dietr1ch]

Oddly enough, after creating a git directory and tracking the files logseq seems to recognize them. But it was not the case when I took the screenshot.

cd /tmp/TestDocuments/Org/   # Recall that logseq only sees /tmp/TestDocuments/Org/Roam
git init .
git add TODO.org Roam/Boring.org
git commit -m 'Init'

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[Bad3r]

Thank you for the report. This issue has been resolved in the latest release

[GabrielBena]

Hello, I'm experiencing the same issue here, any updates ? I'm using myst markdown and github actions to automatically compile a md file in pdf and latex, but would like to edit it in logseq through a symlink. However, even after I create the symlink in logseq/pages it's not detected. Best, Gabriel

[rampaq]

The issue still persists in 0.9.4 on Linux.

For this directory structure, file.md and symlink.md (being a symlink of any file) are detected correctly:

/pages/
|- file.md
|- symlink.md

However, in this directory structure, the file.md is detected correctly but symlink.md is not:

/pages/
|- dir/
  |- file.md
  |- symlink.md

Please, reopen this issue.

[zazuone]

still not solved in windows, logseq 0.9.10

[cnrpman]

Investigation is welcome.

[rampaq]

Any hints on where this functionality might be burried in the code? I might try to pinpoint the issue there.

[andelf]

@rampaq

Other parts of the filesystem handling might be also related to this.

https://github.com/logseq/logseq/blob/8f5b1da36f29c21b0be95e726c312ca540de7e0b/deps/common/src/logseq/common/graph.cljs#L19-L39

[rampaq]

I'm not very familiar with Clojure but as long as I understood it correctly, simply removing the removing the following line should suffice, no? https://github.com/logseq/logseq/blob/8f5b1da36f29c21b0be95e726c312ca540de7e0b/deps/common/src/logseq/common/graph.cljs#L30

Although I'm not sure why were the symlinks explicitly removed in the first case...

[pihentagy]

I have the pages directory as a symlink. Logseq does not detect any of the files inside it, so it is not searchable.

[subacoustic]

Symlinks were working for me, but they just stopped... Very mysterious...

[gerroon]

I have the same issue on windows, symlinks/junctions dont work with the journal pages. The only solution I found is to share them over SMB driver over linux and enable symlinks resolution in Samba.

[p7u]

+1

[J-Schaefer]

I have a possibly related issue. I am using the Zotero integration and have all my PDFs in a Nextcloud which I recently moved from my home directory to another drive. I created a symlink to it inside my home directory. I didn't change any settings in Logseq or Zotero since I assumed both should just follow the symlink. Zotero does, but Logseq shows an error when opening PDF attachments in Zotero pages that says "Error: Missing PDF "file:///correct/path/to/my/pdf". Is this the correct path?". I tested this with newly imported Zotero pages. I also tried moving this part of my Nextcloud back to my home directory which allows Logseq to find it again. So I think this issue might still persist in version 0.10.14.