Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> file:path >> >> is a valid file link type in Org. Therefore, [...] > But that's exactly the problem: producing a file name from a file:// > URL requires to remove the "file://" prefix. It is invalid to leave > the 2 extra slashes and remove only "file:". Why does Org do that?
Presumably because Org decided to use "file:" rather than standard "file://" URI, hence leading to exactly this confusion.
