Data loss - 0 byte files (revisited)

[pmbauer]

curious if this might be relevant

iCloud Drive files being "optimized" on Mac and need to be re-downloaded from cloud

A week ago or so I moved my vault to iCloud Drive in order to sync with the iOS mobile app. This morning when searching my vault I was not turning up files I knew were in there. I opened the finder and saw that many markdown files in my vault had the little “download” icon, suggesting that they had been deleted locally and needed to be downloaded from the cloud again. This is frustrating because these files were created on the Mac and the hard drive has ample space, so they should not have been …