0.11.3 Using Obsidain+Cryptomator on Windows Fails: Illegal operation on Directory

[Wxll]

Affected version: 0.11.3
This bug was previously fixed in version 0.11.2 but seems to be back at 0.11.3

Steps to reproduce

1. Create cryto vault with Cryptomator in a drop box.
2. Open Obsidian 0.11.3
3. Create a Vault inside the Cryptomator mounted disk and put some notes in it.
4. Close Obsidian OsX, close cryptomator
5. Wait till Dropbox has synced/uploaded your new Cryptomator vault.
6. Boot Windows 10
7. Wait till Dropbox has synced/downloaded your new Cryptomator vault.
8. Mount dropbox-cryptomator vault and assign it to the drive O:
9. Check if all files are available/readable in O: before opening Obsidian
10. start Obsidian and mount the vault at O:

Expected result

Obsidian opens it’s Vault that is stored at O:

Actual result

The following Error/Exception is shown:

And obsidian get stucked at loading the vault.

Environment

Step 1~5

• Operating system: OsX 11.
• Cryptomator OsX: 1.5.13
• Obsidian version: 0.11.3 (OsX)

Step 6~10

• Operating system: Windows 10.0.19041 Build 19041 (with NTFS on SSD)
• Cryptomator OsX: 1.5.12
• Dropbox: v116.4.368
• Obsidian version: 0.11.3 (Windows)

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Additional information

Tried to place the Obsidian vault one level deeper inside another directory:
O:\testdir\ObsidianVault
in the pursuit to have Obsidian watch a directory instead of a root directory \ but that did not solve anything it still reproduced the same exception

Wessel

[WhiteNoise]

can you post a screen recording of creating a vault on windows in O:\ObsidianVault?

[Wxll]

Pinpointed the Bug! it’s not really a bug but an incompatibility with a certain FS type of Cryptomator

• It works fine if you use the Dokany Volume Type in Cryptomator.
• It will fail with the Illegal operation if we use WebDAV Volume Type Cryptomator.

[tin]

Thank you very much! I was worried I wouldn’t be able to use it with Cryptomator, but your post helped me