# Cross-Collection WikiLink Abnormalities
**URL:** https://discourse.notenik.app/t/cross-collection-wikilink-abnormalities/653
**Category:** Bug Reports
**Created:** [February 1, 2025, 12:44am UTC](https://discourse.notenik.app/t/cross-collection-wikilink-abnormalities/653 "2025-02-01T00:44:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@ThePrinter](https://discourse.notenik.app/u/ThePrinter)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2025, 12:44am UTC](https://discourse.notenik.app/t/cross-collection-wikilink-abnormalities/653/1 "2025-02-01T00:44:16Z")
I have a Wikilink in my main notes collection (Collection A) that points to a note in a separate collection (Collection B),
e.g., `[[collectionbShortcut/Collection B Title or AKA]]`.
- When I try to use the link in Collection A, **the Collection B note appears in the display window for Collection A**.
- Collection B is launched in it’s own window, but the note that is pointed to from Collection A does not appear as the active note in Collection B’s display window (the last accessed note will appear).
- In both replicants of the respective note in Collection B (i.e., its appearance in the Collection A window and the actual note in Collection B) a Backlink is recorded pointing to the note in Collection A.
**n.b.** I did not observe this behavior in the attached sample collections but you may be able to catch this behavior on a more mature set of notes.
I should mention that the “replicant” of the Collection B Note that appears in Collection A’s Display Window is just that, not a duplicate note, but somehow a copy of the Collection B Note. In other words, a new file isn’t written on the file system as a result of the Collection B Note’s appearance in the Collection A display window. A copy is only made in Collection A if you _edit_ the replicant.
I first observed this behavior when Collection B was a subdirectory of Collection A, but I wasn’t allowing Notenik to register as a dedicated subfolder with the [Folder field](https://notenik.app/kb/folder.html). The described behavior persists after Moving Collection B into the same parent directory as Collection A.
I hope that this is a useful explanation.
## Some things I’ve tried out
- “Normalize Storage”
- “Forget All Shortcuts”
## Sample Collections
- [tmp : Collection A backup on 2025-01-31-12-06-44.zip](https://discourse.notenik.app/uploads/short-url/ba11MbMQutI02ad5KQpNsFLq8qM.zip) (2.9 KB)
- [tmp : Collection B backup on 2025-01-31-12-09-24.zip](https://discourse.notenik.app/uploads/short-url/1BU4qiZVJQ6lEpJl60AaYFYgRzO.zip) (2.2 KB)
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### Author:  [@hbowie](https://discourse.notenik.app/u/hbowie)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2025, 5:46pm UTC](https://discourse.notenik.app/t/cross-collection-wikilink-abnormalities/653/2 "2025-02-02T17:46:02Z")
Thanks for reporting! Let me look into this.
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### Author:  [@hbowie](https://discourse.notenik.app/u/hbowie)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2025, 2:03am UTC](https://discourse.notenik.app/t/cross-collection-wikilink-abnormalities/653/3 "2025-02-03T02:03:42Z")
Try the [latest beta](https://discourse.notenik.app/t/notenik-16-3-2-available-for-beta-testing-on-february-2nd-2025/654) and see if this helps.