What I’m trying to do
Want to sync from Mac to iPhone via iCloud
Things I have tried
I don’t need multiple Vaults AFAIK at this point. The Mac app seemed happy having everything in iCloud/Obsidian/, but iOS app seems confused by this and treats each folder within as a Vault and ignores anything at the Obsidian folder level. So is it necessary to create something like this iCloud/Obsidian/Obsidian Vault-Main (which is synonymous with ~/Library/Mobile Documents/iCloud~md~obsidian/Documents/Obsidian Vault-Main/) to make the iOS app happy?
Just getting started with Obsidian.
Yes, if are doing it from the mac end. If you create an iCloud vault from iOS/iPadOS, it will be placed in that folder.
On macOS, you can keep your vault(s) pretty much anywhere, but if you want to use iCloud Drive on iOS/iPadOS, vaults (even if you are only using one) need to be in the iCloud Drive/Obsidian/ folder. iCloud/Obsidian/Obsidian Vault-Main as you suspected.
If you haven’t moved the vault yet, I would
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Open the Sandbox vault (Help > Sandbox vault) or a junk/test vault
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Close your main vault
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Using the Finder create an Obs-Vault-Main (or whatever) folder in iCloud Drive/Obsidian/
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Enable show hidden files/folders in the Finder
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Drag everything including the .obsidian settings folder inside /Obsidian/ into the new vault folder you created.
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Choose Manage vaults… from the Sandbox
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In the vault picker screen, Open folder as vault → Open and point the Finder at the new Obs-Vault-Main folder
Wait a bit for iCloud to sync and for your phone to see the changes. Oh, and right click / long press on the Obsidian folder and make sure it’s set to be Keep Downloaded on macOS and iOS. That should do it.
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