Gray screen when opening vault

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My vault is stored in iCloud. After opening it on my laptop and closing it, I get a gray screen after the “loading plugins” message when I try to open it on my desktop computer.

What I’m trying to do

Open vault on Mac Studio after closing it on MacBook Pro

Things I have tried

Reopened vault on laptop. Closed all tabs and window on laptop then tried to open on desktop Mac. Made sure iCloud sync had completed.

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One thing you can try that is fairly low impact:

With Obsidian (the vault) closed, move or rename the {VAULT-NAME}/.obsidian/community-plugins.json file. This will keep all your community plugins, but they will be disabled when you open the vault.

Hopefully the vault will open up after that. :crossed_fingers:

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Many thanks! That worked. The weird thing is that I could open the vault on my laptop without any trouble–just the desktop Mac wouldn’t open it any more. Any idea what would have caused this?

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Okay, great!

Something funky about a plugin, I’m guessing.

Now that you are back in, I would:

  1. Update all your community plugins.
  2. Turn one on and close-open the vault.
  3. Work for a bit.
  4. Turn one more on and work for a bit.
  5. Rinse and repeat.

You get it, but turning on one-at-a-time will make it easier for you to guess the culprit if it happens again. Everything may be fine with all your community plugins re-enabled, just a glitch, but you may have to remove that .json file again if things get jammed up.

Good luck!

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