Entirely lost my vault

[ariehen]

@mallorie

I figured this was a simple issue of not being logged into my account, but none of my normal passwords are working with my email, and there appears to be no “forgot my password” button, for starters.

Unless you use Obsidian Sync or Obsidian Publish (both paid services), you probably won’t have an account to login to. Obsidian keep all its files and folders local on your computer (your “vault”).

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• Can you remember your vault name or any note titles that you can use the mac Finder to search for? The notes will be .md files, like 2023-09-10.md, etc.

• Do you use any online services like One Drive or iCloud? Could your vault have been in one of their folders? Sometimes those folders/files are removed from your computer automatically to save space.

• If you open the Obsidian vault switcher →

Can you see anything in this list that might give you a clue of the path / location of your vault on your computer?

That should get us started.