#1

Steps to reproduce

This is happening only for a single note, rest of the notes are fine. And, I doubt whether it will be reproducible at your end.

I have just opened the note as usual and I see red dots in edit mode and nothing in preview, when in fact yesterday I have created the note and added hundreds of lines of data (comprising text, URLs and images) copy pasted from various websites. Around an hour ago, I had to force shut-down my laptop while the Obsidian app (and that note) was still open and after the laptop restart when I opened that note, this problem appeared.

Expected result

Actual result

Environment

  • Operating system: Windows 8.1
  • Obsidian version: 0.9.17

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Help recovering note after a crash
Red dots?
#2

Are you able to open that .md file with another app? If not, I’m afraid your note may have become irrecoverably corrupted.

I hope you have backups. If you don’t, do yourself a favour and try this plugin, a cloud backup solution or, at the very least, regular manual backups.

#3

We believe that the file got corrupted due to the abrupt shutdown. If this happens again, please let us know.

#4

No, I am not able to open that file in any other program (I have tried opening in Notepad, MS Word and in Adobe Reader). I mean the file opens but everything is blank, in MS Word, an 11 page document opens, but then it’s completely blank. Alright, I will try the plugin suggested by you. Thank you.

#5

Yes, even I think the same. Just for your information, my laptop has undergone forced shutdown many a times since the time I have started using your app, but this is the first time something like this has happened. And, your app is always open on my laptop as I add new notes to it almost everyday.
Sure, I will let you know in case this happens again. Thank you.

#6

It happened to me just now, Straight up came to this site. unable to fix it.

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#7

I see you are using 0.11.9. See if the file recovery plugin can help you with this. Settings->File Recovery->View-> Search your note water.

Did you also have an unexpected shutdown or something like that?

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#8

Oh, Yeah it worked. Spent 4 hours making the notes.
Thank you!.

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#9

By the way, yes. i also had an unexpected Shutdown while i was using the obsidian.

#10

Hit this problem with a file today.
Minor issue since I have versions and backups.
But I can’t remember the last time I’ve hit a similar problem using other programs.

#11

Had the same issue, but this method did not work. the snapshot was also in the same state.

#12

Look at older snapshots if you have any

#13

There was only one, strangely. It looked like a backup was taken every 5 minutes, so it might have taken it while i was looking for a way to solve the issue. I just set it to be taken at longer intervals (30 minutes) for future issues.

#14

If you are afraid of issues you should decrease the interval not increase it.

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