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What I’m trying to do
After I updated the desktop both my iPad and iPhone are in a index, crash, index crash loop. I removed the app from both, restarted both devices reinstalled both and tried to sync and again, on both devices no joy. As both of my devices auto update apps I suspect if there is a new Apple version of Obsidian I have it.
Things I have tried
I tried a sync with just PDF, images and notes as most of my notes have these. No change, again deleted everything repowered both devices and now I’m trying just notes. If that works that’s no answer. I also noted that, for the first time and on both devices, the first time I try to connect to my remote vault it fails, the second time, requiring me to login yet again, it does connect and start to sync on both iPad and iPhone. The iPad is 17.7 and the iPhone is 18.
I find nothing in the Forum newer than January for this problem so I started a new case.
More on this - The images display that Obsidian opens after the sync to my remote vault was complete shows it needs to index, crashes and restarts and repeats. It is syncing notes and images only. I did this on my iPhone 12 Pro running IOS 18 and it took about 3 hours of this to finish though I noticed the index was making progress. Here the iPad has been doing this for a day and a half, no progress. iPad 6th running 17.7. From prior issues in the forum I know not to try .PDF files on either device for awhile whenever there’s an update to Obsidian. Everything else though works on the iPhone and syncs. I’ve just now removed Obsidian for the 6th time, reset it to sync, this time only notes and I’ll add what’s happened and also try to get a debug log, though as it’s looping, I haven’t had time to even get to the sync menu.
The remote vault isn’t small it’s just under 300Mb but before the recent updates all these devices synced and indexed fine. I use no Community plugins on either the iPhone or iPad.
Thought I’d do an update here. On Mac, iPhone and Windows all the “loops” stopped. I’m awaiting an iPad version update as that one still starts a sync, restarts and syncs never incrementing from “0/1 Synced”.
