Issue with files missing in Obisidian and unable to open from finder

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Hi I am finding a few oddities when I am using Obisidian.
1- Some files will show in finder but don’t show in Obsidian
2-when I go to open a file from finder it will pull up Obsidian but not open the file. This is true of files that show up in Obsidian and those that don.t’. IE no files will open in Obsidian from finder. I can still open it in text editor
3-created some new folders and when I go to move files into those folders using cmd-click and selecting move file from the menu that comes up. When the command palette comes up it doesn’t have any of the recently created folders listed.

I have tried uninstalling Obsidian. Updated all plug-ins. Removed all but one theme which is updated.

Thanks for any help

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First off, where do you keep your vault on disk? Is it in iCloud Drive or a similar sync service folder or somewhere watched by a sync service?

Also, could you post your debug info (run the command Show debug info)? It will give folks an idea of your setup.

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I have the vault on my disk it is also synched to google drive and this was the debug info… thanks so much

SYSTEM INFO:
Obsidian version: v1.6.3
Installer version: v1.6.3
Operating system: Darwin Kernel Version 23.5.0: Wed May 1 20:16:51 PDT 2024; root:xnu-10063.121.3~5/RELEASE_ARM64_T8103 23.5.0
Login status: not logged in
Insider build toggle: off
Live preview: on
Base theme: adapt to system
Community theme: none
Snippets enabled: 0
Restricted mode: off
Plugins installed: 12
Plugins enabled: 12
1: Dataview v0.5.66
2: Recent Files v1.4.1
3: Spreadsheets v1.0.1
4: Markdown Table Editor v0.3.1
5: Advanced Tables v0.21.0
6: Natural Language Dates v0.6.2
7: Sheets Extended v1.2.10
8: Workbooks v1.0.1
9: Janitor v1.0.7
10: Tag Wrangler v0.6.1
11: Hover Editor v0.11.20
12: DB Folder v3.5.1

RECOMMENDATIONS:
Community plugins: for bugs, please first try updating all your plugins to latest. If still not fixed, please try to make the issue happen in the Sandbox Vault or disable community plugins.

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Okay!

Make sure Google Drive or the vault folder, at least, is set to “mirroring” (vs. “streaming”) so files stay local on that device.

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just set it to mirroring and restarted Obsidian and bug still there
thx :grinning:

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Hmm. Not sure then.

One last thing I’ll mention though: Obsidian works on files (notes) in a vault within Obsidian. Last I checked you can’t (and shouldn’t set) Obsidian to be the handler of .md files.

Depending on what you have installed and set, when double-clicking on a .md file in the macOS Finder, a Markdown app (MarkText, Typora, etc.) or text editor (TextMate, Sublime Text, VSCode, etc.) should open the individual file, not Obsidian. Maybe the default on macOS is the built-in TextEdit app? I can’t remember.

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Thanks anyway. When I re-installed Obsidian because of this I found that Obsidian sets itself as default app for opening .md files. It didn’t do this before the last update.
Thanks

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