This started just last night. Every time I go to click on the search button, Obsidian freezes and I am forced to shut down and restart the application. I have turned off all Community Plugins and the problem continues. Interestingly, it does not happen in the Sandbox.
Maybe coincidental - This did not happen until I signed up for the beta access.
SYSTEM INFO:
Obsidian version: v1.9.1
Installer version: v1.8.10
Operating system: Darwin Kernel Version 24.5.0: Tue Apr 22 19:54:29 PDT 2025; root:xnu-11417.121.6~2/RELEASE_ARM64_T6030 24.5.0
Login status: logged in
Language: en
Catalyst license: insider
Insider build toggle: on
Live preview: on
Base theme: adapt to system
Community theme: none
Snippets enabled: 0
Restricted mode: off
Plugins installed: 13
Plugins enabled: 13
1: Better Word Count v0.10.1
2: File Hider v1.1.1
3: Folder notes v1.7.35
4: Hider v1.5.1
5: Iconize v2.14.7
6: Lapel v0.1.5
7: Minimal Theme Settings v8.1.1
8: Recent Files v1.7.4
9: Smart Typography v1.0.18
10: Waypoint v2.1.0
11: Text Transporter v1.0.12
12: Tag Wrangler v0.6.4
13: Trim Whitespace v0.3.0
When you turn off all community plugins, do you restart Obsidian before doing the test? Some plugins might keep some things loaded until you restart or reload.
Also, have you updated all your plugins?
Yes. I did this. All updated. Turn off everything. Close Obsidian. Restart. Click on Magnifying Glass. Instant Freeze.
Then my next guess might be that it is related to some files which have strange characters in the files. Emoji, or complex accents or punctuation?
Where is your vault stored, if that seems relevant?
This makes sense. I have been copying and pasting text from other note systems (Notion, Mem) into new notes on Obsidian. While I don’t use emojis or anything eccentric something must have triggered this issue.
If you have the patience to do some investigation, maybe you could make a test vault. And copy all files over. If it happens there, delete half. And keep deleting half until you narrow down which note might be causing the issue. (Or maybe adding notes in chunks would be easier.)
Another thing you could try is opening the developer tools (Cmd-Shift-i), and console. See if you can spot any errors that trigger before the app crashes.
Hopefully the cause can be found.