Ignore folders and files with `Permission denied`

[jdorel]

Use case or problem

My documents contains some folders that can’t be read from my users. It would be nice if obsidian would just ignore those files.

The reason I have those files in my vault is the following :

• I moved all of my projects documents in obsidian. This includes my dev projects.
• For some dev projects, I use docker volumes with relative paths (to mount config files for exemple)
• The owner of those files/folders is root

Proposed solution

• Skip files with permission issues
• Skip files inside folders with a .obsidianignore file

Current workaround (optional)

Had to delete those folder, but I am not actively developing at the moment. If I really needed to keep them, I would have chmod 666, but this might not be a correct workaround for all files.

Related feature requests (optional)

Config to ignore files/folders

Would be useful in some cases to be able to have Obsidian ignore specified files/directories, optionally at different scopes too. for example I use Obsidian to manage content on a Jekyll-generated website. This means that in my Vault I have all the templates, assets, plugins, includes as well as the generated site’s files. I can imagine editing .obsidian/config “ignore” directives such as "ignore": { "scopes": { "file_viewer" : ( "_site","_includes","_layouts","_assets","_data" …

Ignore a folder of temporary notes

Hey team, I am wondering if there is any way we can ignore folders in graph views and backlinking? Essentially, I have a folder for fleeting notes as per the Zettelkasten method. I want some degree of seperation here from the main Zettelkasten. The problem is files in that folder show up in the graphs and backlinks. The alternative is to create a new vault. But am wondering if there is anyway to add a .gitignore of some sort

EDIT : Add proposed solution

[WhiteNoise]

I get the config to ingnore files/folder FR.

I am not sure I understand your request. If it’s a matter of FS permissions, if obsidian can read the files whoever can open obsidian can read the files.

[jdorel]

The current issue is that if obsidian can’t open some files in the vault, obsidian won’t open at all
Also, I forgot to write the proposed solution, this is edited