Importing data from phone files no option

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What I’m trying to do

My desktop obsidian files have been rsynced to my phone directory folder, but won’t import into the obsidian phone app

Things I have tried

Read the docs

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What OS are you using on mobile? iOS or Android?

On iOS, Obsidian can only read/recognize vaults in two locations.

I think Android has similar restrictions.

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iOS 18.5.
Considering other processes to move data manually if front end GUI buttons are restricted to protect the proprietary sync business model.

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iOS I can speak on.

Vaults need to be in

On My iPhone/Obsidian/vault1
On My iPhone/Obsidian/vault2

and/or

iCloud Drive/Obsidian/vault1
iCloud Drive/Obsidian/vault2

for Obsidian to read / register them as vaults.

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Thx.
I installed app iSH.
I then run command to rsync my desktop Obsidian data to the iPhone:

rsync -Dlpqrtv --delete --exclude='.git' --progress --timeout=30 [email protected]:/home/rapi5/Documents/'Obsidian Vault'/ '/mnt/On My iPhone/Obsidian/vault/'

However this causes rsync.log error:

~/Desktop $ cat rsync.log 
rsync: [Receiver] mkdir "/mnt/On My iPhone/Obsidian/vault" failed: No such file or directory (2)
rsync error: error in file IO (code 11) at main.c(780) [Receiver=3.2.5]

I’m having trouble with the iSH app finding the path which I understand to be Files/On My iPhone/Obsidian/vault/myObsidianDataIsInDirectoriesHere

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The folder that holds the vault folders is On My iPhone/Obsidian. The vault1 and vault2 are just examples, as if you had 2 vaults and those were their names.

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