diff --git a/src/main/frontend/components/block.cljs b/src/main/frontend/components/block.cljs
index 12ef3900c..a94f4248a 100644
--- a/src/main/frontend/components/block.cljs
+++ b/src/main/frontend/components/block.cljs
@@ -438,10 +438,6 @@
                                 :on-click share-fn}
            title])))))
 
-(defn ar-url->http-url
-  [href]
-  (string/replace href #"^ar://" (str (state/get-arweave-gateway) "/")))
-
 ;; TODO: safe encoding asciis
 ;; TODO: image link to another link
 (defn image-link [config url href label metadata full_text]
@@ -460,9 +456,6 @@
                     (util/starts-with? href "http")
                     href
 
-                    (util/starts-with? href "ar")
-                    (ar-url->http-url href)
-
                     config/publishing?
                     (subs href 1)
 
@@ -1172,9 +1165,6 @@
                  (util/starts-with? href "http")
                  href
 
-                 (util/starts-with? href "ar")
-                 (ar-url->http-url href)
-
                  config/publishing?
                  (subs href 1)
 
@@ -1370,16 +1360,6 @@
           (show-link? config metadata href full_text)
           (media-link config url href label metadata full_text)
 
-          (= protocol "ar")
-          (->elem
-           :a.external-link
-           (cond->
-            {:href (ar-url->http-url href)
-             :target "_blank"}
-             title
-             (assoc :title title))
-           (map-inline config label))
-
           :else
           (->elem
            :a.external-link
diff --git a/src/main/frontend/handler/editor.cljs b/src/main/frontend/handler/editor.cljs
index 2767ef40e..e7b0eb7a1 100644
--- a/src/main/frontend/handler/editor.cljs
+++ b/src/main/frontend/handler/editor.cljs
@@ -1481,23 +1481,27 @@
                     matched-alias]))
                 (p/catch #(js/console.error "Debug: Copy Asset Error#" %))))
 
-          (p/do! (js/console.debug "Debug: Writing Asset #" dir file-rpath)
-                 (cond
-                   (mobile-util/native-platform?)
+          (->
+           (p/do! (js/console.debug "Debug: Writing Asset #" dir file-rpath)
+                  (cond
+                    (mobile-util/native-platform?)
                    ;; capacitor fs accepts Blob, File implements Blob
-                   (p/let [buffer (.arrayBuffer file)
-                           content (base64/encodeByteArray (js/Uint8Array. buffer))
-                           fpath (path/path-join dir file-rpath)]
-                     (capacitor-fs/<write-file-with-base64 fpath content))
+                    (p/let [buffer (.arrayBuffer file)
+                            content (base64/encodeByteArray (js/Uint8Array. buffer))
+                            fpath (path/path-join dir file-rpath)]
+                      (capacitor-fs/<write-file-with-base64 fpath content))
 
-                   (config/db-based-graph? repo) ;; memory-fs
-                   (p/let [buffer (.arrayBuffer file)
-                           content (js/Uint8Array. buffer)]
-                     (fs/write-file! repo dir file-rpath content nil))
+                    (config/db-based-graph? repo) ;; memory-fs
+                    (p/let [buffer (.arrayBuffer file)
+                            content (js/Uint8Array. buffer)]
+                      (fs/write-file! repo dir file-rpath content nil))
 
-                   :else                ; nfs
-                   (fs/write-file! repo dir file-rpath (.stream file) nil))
-                 [file-rpath file (path/path-join dir file-rpath) matched-alias])))))))
+                    :else                ; nfs
+                    (fs/write-file! repo dir file-rpath (.stream file) nil))
+                  [file-rpath file (path/path-join dir file-rpath) matched-alias])
+           (p/catch (fn [error]
+                      (prn :paste-file-error)
+                      (js/console.error error))))))))))
 
 (defn delete-asset-of-block!
   [{:keys [repo href full-text block-id local? delete-local?] :as _opts}]