Automatically refresh images when the image file changes

[intijk]

Can we refresh the document when image changes? I found only external change to the md will trigger ob to re render the page, but corresponding related file change within the doc will not, I have edited some jpg and svg with some other editor, I want those changes also immediately see change when I click the save on my svg editor.

[rigmarole]

Pardon me, I renamed the title to be a bit more specific.

I didn’t notice until now that images don’t refresh automatically.

[obsequious]

This bothers me too.

Anyone know of a workaround to force a manual refresh?

[CawlinTeffid]

In Command Palette there’s “Reload without saving”. On Mac in the menu bar menu there’s View > Force Reload (No hotkey associated). I haven’t tested either for the subject of this thread.

[obsequious]

These 2 reload commands are a bit too heavy-handed for me: they reload the entire app, cache (maybe just the Force Reload command does this one?), and plugins, which for me takes quite a while.

[jason721b]

My workaround is to change the image name slight and then undo.

![[Image.png]]

For example, you can change the above to below and then undo

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You can probably automate this via templater

[deathstyx]

There’s a post on how to refresh an active leaf vs reloading the whole app:

Creating command to reload page

I added this as the QuickAdd: Rebuild current view command, and accompanied it with a button in one particular note like the following: ```button name Rebuild view type command action QuickAdd: Rebuild current view ``` ^button-rebuild This has then allowed me to in a random note with a Dataview query to do: `button-rebuild` ```dataview ... ``` And I get the output like this: [image] Extremely practical and so far the most efficient way I’ve found to reload the Dataview queries. (Now if o…

Ran into this trying to get a workflow for export/import Concepts app drawings. Works alright, when you bind it to ctrl-r (newer versions of obsidian doesn’t bind to reloading app anymore).

At some point I’ll make a plugin that just watches active leaves for file changes and auto refresh (…hopefully not the whole leaf…maybe I’ll just do the change/undo in code lol). But this works well enough for now.

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