If I understand your question correctly yes. I initially set this up as a vault on an older version of Obsidian. I had no issues until I installed a fresh copy of Obsidian (the update feature wasn’t letting me update for some reason) and I tried using that same vault.
Okay, so I have no issues editing and saving the help vault. My vault lives in my Documents folder, and when I try to create another vault within the Documents folder, it doesn’t work. It seems with this latest installation I’m having trouble getting permissions to write to my Documents folder.
I’m not sure why it wasn’t letting me update. My assumption was that the version I was on before was too old. I hadn’t updated in a while.
When I create a vault on C:\Test I have no issues with it. I don’t use symbolic links here (although I do have some mapped network drives elsewhere on my computer) and I’m not syncing this folder with OneDrive, although I am pushing it to a git repository occasionally.
Honestly, I’m at least happy to know that I can just move these files to my C:\ and then get it working again.
I think you ran into some sort of permission issue. I don’t know if there is something odd in your documents folder or if there is something odd with obsidian installation. You can try to uninstall obsidian and also delete %appdata%\obsidian