I changed a folder in Obsidian from “PROJECTS” to “Projects”, and ever since, Obsidian has been deleting all the sub-folder (they are only two deep) and associated files. I have restored using the Sync bulk restore (which is tedious); I now restore by using git on my desktop and discarding the changes. But Mobile keeps on deleting. I have therefore had to remove Obsidian from my mobile, which is a real shame as having obsidian mobile was a long-awaited feature for me. Does anyone else have similar experiences - I’d love to re-install mobile?
Tried to reproduce it. If I renamed a folder “TEST” to “Test” on Android, it gave an error notification “Destination file already exists”.
When I renamed it on Windows, it first deleted the files and folder on Mobile and then recreated them under the new folder name.
To reiterate, to most sync services, a “rename” operation doesn’t actually exist.
When you rename something on device 1 and then sync, your other devices think you’ve deleted the file, and meanwhile, you created another file with the new name. So, you would see device 2 deleting files, but if you waited for the sync to complete, you’d also see device 2 download the newly-named files.
However, if you stopped this process before it’s finished, bad things might happen. Follow @WhiteNoise’s advice above to avoid trouble.