Jupyter Notebook: pictures from up directories are not shown

Expected/actual behavior

I work with Jupyter Notebook in VS Code and insert picture in Markdown field. If picture is in the same folder as .ipynb file or directory down - everything is working fine. But pictures from up directories are not shown. Browser version of Jupyter Notebook works fine. And if I run python script in VSC and try to open file from up directories it’s working too. Is it a bug? I changed paths & slashes, terminal paths, notebook (Python > Data Science) settings, swithed between conda and “usual” python and it doesn’t help.

Steps to cause the bug to occur

For example I have project in D:/Project folder. Notebook is inside “./scriptFolder” and I’m inserting several images. Pics from notebook folder and directories down are shown, other not. With tree it looks like this:

Project
|----dataFolder
|    |----data.txt
|    |----vsData.jpg (this pic is not shown)
|----scriptFolder
|    |----pic
|    |    |----vsDown.jpg (this pic is shown)
|    |----jNotebook.ipynb (our notebook)
|    |----vs.jpg (this pic is also shown)
|----vsUp.jpg (this pic is not shown)

I run this scripts:

# %% [markdown]
<img src="./vs.jpg" /> (shown)
<img src="./pic/vsDown.jpg" /> (shown)
<img src="./../vsUp.jpg" /> (not shown)
<img src="./../dataFolder/vsData.jpg" /> (not shown)

# %%
f = open("./../dataFolder/data.txt","r")
print(f.read()) 

GIF version

Jupyter and/or Python environment

• Jupyter server running: Local
• Extension version: Python 2020.3.71659
• VS Code version: 1.44
• Python/Anaconda version: 3.7.6(+3.8.2)/2020.02
• OS: Windows
• Virtual environment: N/A

Microsoft Data Science for VS Code Engineering Team: @rchiodo, @IanMatthewHuff, @DavidKutu, @DonJayamanne, @greazer

[rchiodo]

Validated. Should be in our released bits.

[dsidov]

Wow, thanks a lot! You’re doing a great job!