diff --git a/javascript/tagAutocomplete.js b/javascript/tagAutocomplete.js
index 3096011..7d94c4b 100644
--- a/javascript/tagAutocomplete.js
+++ b/javascript/tagAutocomplete.js
@@ -367,7 +367,6 @@ function updateSelectionStyle(textArea, newIndex, oldIndex) {
 
 var wildcardFiles = [];
 var wildcardExtFiles = [];
-var wildcards = {};
 var embeddings = [];
 var allTags = [];
 var results = [];
@@ -408,12 +407,16 @@ function autocomplete(textArea, prompt, fixedTag = null) {
 
     tagword = tagword.toLowerCase();
 
-    if (acConfig.useWildcards && [...tagword.matchAll(/\b__([^,_ ]+)__([^, ]*)\b/g)].length > 0) {
+    if (acConfig.useWildcards && [...tagword.matchAll(/\b__([^, ]+)__([^, ]*)\b/g)].length > 0) {
         // Show wildcards from a file with that name
-        wcMatch = [...tagword.matchAll(/\b__([^,_ ]+)__([^, ]*)\b/g)]
+        wcMatch = [...tagword.matchAll(/\b__([^, ]+)__([^, ]*)\b/g)]
         let wcFile = wcMatch[0][1];
         let wcWord = wcMatch[0][2];
-        results = wildcards[wcFile].filter(x => (wcWord !== null) ? x.toLowerCase().includes(wcWord) : x) // Filter by tagword
+
+        let wildcards = readFile(`file/extensions/wildcards/wildcards/${wcFile}.txt`).split("\n")
+                        .filter(x => x.trim().length > 0); // Remove empty lines
+
+        results = wildcards.filter(x => (wcWord !== null && wcWord.length > 0) ? x.toLowerCase().includes(wcWord) : x) // Filter by tagword
             .map(x => [wcFile + ": " + x.trim(), "wildcardTag"]); // Mark as wildcard
     } else if (acConfig.useWildcards && (tagword.startsWith("__") && !tagword.endsWith("__") || tagword === "__")) {
         // Show available wildcard files
@@ -607,23 +610,6 @@ onUiUpdate(function () {
             wildcardExtFiles = readFile("file/tags/temp/wce.txt").split("\n")
                 .filter(x => x.trim().length > 0) // Remove empty lines
                 .map(x => x.trim().replace(".txt", "")); // Remove file extension & newlines
-
-            wildcardFiles.forEach(fName => {
-                try {
-                    wildcards[fName] = readFile(`file/scripts/wildcards/${fName}.txt`).split("\n")
-                        .filter(x => x.trim().length > 0); // Remove empty lines
-                } catch (e) {
-                    console.log(`Could not load wildcards for ${fName}`);
-                }
-            });
-            wildcardExtFiles.forEach(fName => {
-                try {
-                    wildcards[fName] = readFile(`file/extensions/wildcards/wildcards/${fName}.txt`).split("\n")
-                        .filter(x => x.trim().length > 0); // Remove empty lines
-                } catch (e) {
-                    console.log(`Could not load wildcards for ${fName}`);
-                }
-            });
         } catch (e) {
             console.error("Error loading wildcards: " + e);
         }
diff --git a/scripts/tag_autocomplete_helper.py b/scripts/tag_autocomplete_helper.py
index 52c9485..80afe3c 100644
--- a/scripts/tag_autocomplete_helper.py
+++ b/scripts/tag_autocomplete_helper.py
@@ -15,13 +15,13 @@ TEMP_PATH = FILE_DIR.joinpath('tags/temp')
 def get_wildcards():
     """Returns a list of all wildcards. Works on nested folders."""
     wildcard_files = list(WILDCARD_PATH.rglob("*.txt"))
-    resolved = [str(w.relative_to(WILDCARD_PATH)) for w in wildcard_files if w.name != "put wildcards here.txt"]
+    resolved = [w.relative_to(WILDCARD_PATH).as_posix() for w in wildcard_files if w.name != "put wildcards here.txt"]
     return resolved
 
 def get_ext_wildcards():
     """Returns a list of all extension wildcards. Works on nested folders."""
     wildcard_files = list(WILDCARD_EXT_PATH.rglob("*.txt"))
-    resolved = [str(w.relative_to(WILDCARD_EXT_PATH)) for w in wildcard_files if w.name != "put wildcards here.txt"]
+    resolved = [w.relative_to(WILDCARD_EXT_PATH).as_posix() for w in wildcard_files if w.name != "put wildcards here.txt"]
     return resolved