Download v 12.3 from the website (as recommended, to take advantage of the Electron build), copy to applications
Open Obsidian 12.3
The application will open and ask to select a vault
Select a vault to open
Expected result
The application should open the selected vault.
Actual result
Obsidian crashes (“quits unexpectedly”, as I receive a prompt to report to Apple). Everytime I try to open it again, it simply crashes and does not open. See video:
Environment
Operating system: macOS High Sierra, 10.13.6
Obsidian version: 12.3
Additional notes
The problem seems to be the Electron build, as Obsidian still works fine with installer version v.0.8.4 updated to v.0.12.3.
Yes, but as you can see from the first video, this also happens with vaults that are not in iCloud (I tried opening a backup that was in the Downloads folder and the same thing happened).
Surprisingly yes! However, when I try to open my actual vault it crashes (and then won’t ever open again unless I uninstall and reinstall Obsidian).
I suppose this indicates there might some conflict within my vault? What’s weird to me is that I can open all of it fine on both the installer version 0.8.4 with updates, and on mobile it all works as well.
I moved out the entire .obsidian folder and it opened. I then moved back the plugins, themes and snippets folders to back to the vault, and it is still working. So this is solved! I’ll just make some more notes for documentation purposes because it wasn’t a plugin or css, but perhaps some file that was inherited from older builds.