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From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
Subject: Re: Org links that point to filenames with space do not open
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2012 00:03:26 -0400
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Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <celoserpa@gmail.com> 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