Drag and drop png images

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Bhavik Nathwani

May 18, 2020 12:57

Drag and drop images works fine, if the image is already present in the notebook (folder). 

Does not work, if the image is in a different folder. 

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  Fletcher Penney

  May 18, 2020 13:42

  I'm not sure I'm following you.  What specifically are you doing, and what is not working properly?  What do you expect to happen that is not happening?

   

  I *think* you are trying to drag an image from somewhere else on your drive, and expect it to show up in the preview.  That won't work -- only files within the folder that is open in nvUltra are available in the preview.  But I might be misunderstanding what you mean.

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  Bhavik Nathwani

  May 18, 2020 14:03

  You understood it right. That's exactly what I meant. I tried dragging an image from somewhere else on my drive, and expected it to show up in the preview. And it didn't. 

  Following your response, I understand that this capability is not currently available. Is there are design philosophy specific reason why this has not been implemented? If not, I will go ahead and copy-paste my post in the feature request section. 

  To provide context, I am trying to use nvultra as a desktop wiki. If non-text assets, such as figures, could be linked from anywhere in the drive, it would make life significantly easier in terms of using nvultra as a desktop wiki. I could of course change "notebook"/folder and make a note in the new location but that just translates the problem from difficulty linking non-text assets to then a difficulty of linking notes as wikilinks from a different location. 

   

   

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  Fletcher Penney

  May 18, 2020 14:45

  Between macOS sandboxing and the inability of WKWebView to reliably handle local images (and printing), preview functionality is limited to files within the nvUltra folder.  There are other posts here that discuss it further if you are interested in details.

   

  However, if you want a wiki with images, simply use:

   

  /folder

  /folder/text1.md

  /folder/text2.md

  /folder/images/image1.png

  /folder/images/image2.png

  etc...

   

  where /folder is the folder you open in nvUltra.  You can then use images within your Wiki just fine.

   

  Don't bother opening a feature request -- this is a limitation of macOS, not nvUltra.  When Apple fixes their issues, we will make things as flexible as we can.

   

  Hope this explains things!

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  Bhavik Nathwani

  May 18, 2020 14:48

  That clarifies everything. Thanks for the prompt responses! 

   

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  Fletcher Penney

  May 18, 2020 14:52

  No worries!!

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