Nick, it's a custom script... however, it looks like I was using the wrong format. Instead of escaping the space chars, I should uri-encode them it seems. I'll try that. Thanks! On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 11:03 PM, Nick Dokos wrote: > Marcelo de Moraes Serpa wrote: > > > I have several links that use the file protocol to open files indexed in > > org entries. They work fine for entries that point to file whose > filenames > > do *not* contain space, but for entries with space in them, it just fails > > silently. I.e: > > > > [[file:/Volumes/ext-hd/pdfs/Name\ Of\ The-\ 4th\ file.pdf]] > > > > I even escaped the filename using the (shell-quote-argument) function > when > > indexing, but no luck. > > > > This is a link to a directory. I grabbed it with C-c l and inserted it > with C-c C-l. It seems to work fine: > > [[file:lib/music/Arnold%20Schoenberg/Moses%20und%20Aron/][Moses und Aron] > > Nick >