Hi this may apply to platforms/wikis outside of xwiki, but I am trying the embed a file by doing the following
[[myfile>>file://C:/users/myfile.txt]]
where clicking on the newly created link does nothing.
I have tried with backslashed file path too but no difference and three slashes infront of "file:"
this should be pretty straightforward....
There should be three slashes in a URI like file:///C:/.
After the "protocol" part, the file URI scheme takes first a host name (which can be omitted in your case, because you are trying to access a local resource), then the path. Between host and path there is a slash. (This holds for other URI schemes, as well...)
The slash has to remain, even if the host part is omitted.