[BUG} Zotlit Plugin Black Screens Obsidian

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When Zotlit is enabled. It black screens Obsidian. This happened after installing the latest SQL3 Lite which was auto installed by Zotlit.

To make Obsidian function again. I had to disable Zotlit, but because of the black screen, I had to delete the plugin from the Obsidian plugins folder instead.

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Install OB Zotlit plugin and enable.
  2. Have the latest version of SQL Lite 3 either by…
    • following the instructions of Zotlit prompt window
    • automatically via the Zotlit prompt windows
    • manually by going through the docs.
  3. Black screen occurs.

System:
OS: Windows 11 [64-bit]
OS build: 26120.1252
Version: 24H2
OB Version: v1.4.13
Zotlit Version: 1.1.6

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we don’t take bug reports involving third party plugins. Moved to the help section.

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Same problem, same cause (updated ZotLit by aidenlx, let the plugin install better-sqlite3 in its preferred way, now Obsidian launches with a black screen and is unresponsive so I can’t disable the offending plugin).

It’d be great if there was a way to disable all plugins and do a “safe-mode” Obsidian launch.

MacOS 14.5
Obsidian v1.6.7

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With that vault closed, you could try moving or renaming the VAULT_NAME/.obsidian/community-plugins.json file. That would be the smallest possible impact and simply disable community plugins.

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thanks. ended up replacing the plugin’s source code with an earlier release, which allowed Obsidian to launch. Glad to know this trick, though.

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