Steps to reproduce
Create a note mostly consisting of tables with longish content (multiple sentences in a cell).
Example: pastebin
Scroll up and down, close and open the note, click into multiple tables and change the contents, paste the contents of one cell into another…interact with the note normally over a long period of time. I can’t determine the exact trigger, but I was able to corrupt two notes.
- Copying and pasting between table cells seems to cause more problems than other operations.
- The more content you paste into a single table cell, the more you see the effects listed below.
- The effects appear to accumulate over time until the note is extremely corrupted.
Did you follow the troubleshooting guide? Yes
Expected result
The note continues to work normally; tables stay separate and their contents are not changed.
Actual result
You can observe most of the following bugs in this note, which is already showing a few signs of corruption: pastebin. The note is buggiest right after you open it.
- Whenever you type in one of the tables, the scroll bar jumps around and changes size unpredictably. This is just a visual glitch and not experience-breaking, but could be relevant.
- As you scroll up and down in the note, you can see flashes of unrendered tables in raw Markdown before they render. Sometimes the Markdown jumps back and forth quite a lot before rendering. I assume this is an optimization thing, only rendering tables that are in the viewport, but mentioning in case it’s relevant. (A couple of times I saw raw Markdown that never rendered itself as a table; I had to scroll or click around to get it to catch up.)
- Sometimes when you scroll, a section of the note fails to load altogether. You see an indeterminate loading bar and empty content. When you click somewhere to move your cursor, this often fixes itself.
- There’s a noticeable lag on each keystroke when you’re editing a table with a large amount of content in any one cell, even if you’re not editing that cell. (Try editing any cell in the second table under “Section 5” in the note above.)
- For one of my notes, a large portion of the note got absorbed into a single table cell, with line breaks becoming
<br>and Markdown table dividers|getting escaped\|. This had to be tediously fixed by hand in a code editor, I couldn’t fix it in Obsidian. - For another note, which I created specifically to reproduce this issue, several rows of a table got corrupted (see the 2nd table under “Section 1” in the note above—I pasted some content into the second column of row 2, but everything else that looks strange was caused by Obsidian). Depending on the row, content was deleted, a bunch of empty space was added, or content was moved from the second column to the first column.
Environment
I use Obsidian on an M1 Macbook Air with 16GB RAM.
SYSTEM INFO:
Obsidian version: v1.5.10
Installer version: v1.4.13
Operating system: Darwin Kernel Version 23.3.0: Wed Dec 20 21:30:27 PST 2023; root:xnu-10002.81.5~7/RELEASE_ARM64_T8103 23.3.0
Login status: logged in
Catalyst license: insider
Insider build toggle: on
Live preview: on
Base theme: dark
Community theme: none
Snippets enabled: 0
Restricted mode: on
RECOMMENDATIONS:
none
Additional information
The dev console is full of the following messages:
Viewport failed to stabilize
Measure loop restarted more than 5 times
[Violation] 'requestIdleCallback' handler took 52ms
