I’m using 0.12.9 for Mac as well. Both builds are recent and everything seems up to date. I also did the sys prefs - iCloud Drive - options thing where I toggled Obsidian. I still can’t write to my Obsidian subfolders in Finder.
I expect I just need to wait longer, but I thought I’d check in just in case my feedback helps.
Sorry, playing bug report musical chairs. The other thread was focused on an iOS issue that is fixed. This thread is for the macOS issue that persists.
This is still happening to me today, August 9, 2021. Is there any date when this will be fixed or should we wait an hour or so after creating the Vault in the Mobile application to start the copying process?
I encourage you to double check exactly which directory you picked. Perhaps you picked a subdirectory.
The settings are saved alongside your files in the .obsidian directory. We have never had a loss of settings in this scenario. But if it happened, I am sorry. If you have a backup you can copy the .obsidian directory back.
I think you should be more specific and detailed in the instructions. Perhaps have them in a web page that one can follow on a desktop and not only in the narrow iPhone small screen … maybe thinking more in the end user will make the transition less prone to error and easy
the instructions are part of the obsidian help which is distributed alongside obsidian, the ? icon in the ribbon. They are also available at https://help.obsidian.md/Index
It is really cumbersome to force users to adapt to the path naming that’s easier for you rather than work the other way around and make end users life easy. Moving files around and re creating vaults just because you hard coded a path …