What I’m trying to do
Move (relocate) my vault from D:\documents\vault\vault to D:\vaults\vault
Things I have tried
In the “Manage Vaults” interface, I chose my vault and clicked on “Move” but failed.
After initial failures, I used that same interface to create a test vault in the new location D:\vaults i.e. D:\vaults\test, with success. Therefore not a permission issue in the new folder. Then I launched Obsidian in that test vault for further tests.
I created another test vault in the old location D:\documents\vault\test2, also with success. Therefore not a permission issue there too.
Then I moved the test2 vault to the new location D:\vaults\test2, suprise, also with success. Therefore the problem is pinned down to files or folders inside my vault.
I closed SublimeText, SumatraPDF and Totalcmd that might have opened handles on files or folders inside those vaults, then I succeeded in moving another vault D:\documents\vault\asmr but still failed on D:\documents\vault\vault.
Finally I restarted Windows File Explorer with task manager (you know, explorer always has hungup opened handles on folders that have already been closed), and succeeded in moving D:\documents\vault\vault, finally!
Yet I still have to say:
- This is probably the same issue as reported in the forum: Can't rename vault: Error: EPERM: Operation not permitted but bro didn’t find out what caused it and how to solve. Hope that people will find my post.
- I recognize it as a bug because the error message could’ve been more precise than just “Failure because permission denied blablabla”. Lots of other softwares I’ve used would notify me like “Files or folders being used by other softwares blablabla”. Users shouldn’t have to guess why this basic feature is broken for some mysterious “permission” issue.