I was editing a meeting note, and I clicked on the Calendar to open my Daily Note (Periodic Notes plugin). The entire contents of the daily note was replaced with the contents of the meeting note. My daily note completely disappeared. Now when I open the file called “2025-07-11.md”, I see the conte…

I want to report this issue too. It happened to me on July 18th (last time the notes were edited), but I realized about it today. Some notes were completely replaced by the content of other notes, super weird :thinking:. Fortunately I could recover those affected notes. I want to provide a possible…

[image] katieliisabet: It’s a bit of a messy workaround—the Automator app is triggered by a recurring Calendar even Do you not have a general backup system setup, or is this just extra insurance? If you don’t, I recommend setting up Time Machine and checking Back up your Obsidian files - Obsi…

I’m seeing this bug as well, using obsidian vault on a single machine but placing the vault in google drive to get a backup. On latest obsidian 1.9.12 Mac OS 15.7 Apple Silicon. Latest google drive as well (114.0.1.0). No community plugins. I’ve noticed a few things on my system trying to find out …

For the affected files ls -l does not show anything unusual (“mode 600” in most cases) but xattr shows an additional attribute of “com.google.drivefs.item-id#S” which does in fact mean the file was created by google drive (“created” via the renames I think).

I’m experiencing this bug as well with Macos 15.6.1 and Obsidian 1.10.3. My vault is on local storage. This is a critical, breaking bug. It undermines the primary purpose of the tool. I’ve stopped using Obsidian until it is resolved.

We recently (1.10.2) fixed a bug that could cause this when editing dates in properties and then navigating tab history. Under which circumstances does it happen to you? do you have reproducible steps?

This isn’t super-useful but might give context. I’ve used the same vault for many months with no problem. A few days ago I moved the vault to a very slow filestore - SMB to a cheap Azure Files share - and this problem has happened 3 times already. It makes me suspect there’s a race condition when a…

Further info, and a short-term workaround: By forcing links to open in a new tag (e.g. with obsidian://show-plugin?id=opener) the problem doesn’t manifest itself. Presumably this is because any async operations to finish writing changes to the previous file can still happen, while the new note load…

hello Riscy. I agree with you that there is some rare race condition at play here. Out of curiosity, does downloading and reinstall Obsidian from the website help in your case or not?

Hi @WhiteNoise - yes, it’s a fresh installation of Obsidian from the website. I downloaded it in December 2025. Thanks.

Content of a Note totally Replaced/overwritten with content of another note

Bug reports

Sunnaq445 February 2, 2026, 4:06pm 36