How the heck do I delete a vault on the Mac?

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I want to delete a vault from Obsidian but leave the folders intact on Finder. How do I do that? I’ve searched for the answer on my own and can’t find it.

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Try to check invisible folders - on mac “shift + cmd + .”, there will be invisible “.obsidian” folder in the root folder of your vault (If you want simply remove vault from obsidian without deleting files you could use the vault menu

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The vault menu is in the downleft corner
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Thanks, but once I have opened the “vault” menu in Obsidian, then what?

Your screenshot is exactly what I see. I see a list of vault on the left side. If I click on a vault, it opens. If I right-click on it, nothing happens.

On the right side I see options for open folder, create new vault, open help vault, choosing language – but no option for deleting a vault.

How do I delete a vault from within Obsidian? Is there a way to do that?

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Click the x near the vault you want to delete in the vault menu!

Edit: I’m not actually sure if that deletes Obsidian’s hidden files in the root of the folder, but I imagine it does.

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AHA! THANK YOU RYAN!

I did not see the tiny, tiny X against the black background until you alerted me to look out for it.

I seem to be the only person in the universe who has had this problem, so I’m reluctant to suggest any change.

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I will encourage the devs to make it tinier and more black!

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