I ran into some more sync file corruption this morning, and after discovering the corruption, I went to my git backup and discovered my backups haven’t been working since mid-November. Somehow Obsidian silently disabled my git auto-backups. I guess this might have been due to an upgrade that cleared the git plugin’s settings without telling me?
I know I’m the only one experiencing this corruption so I don’t expect any support for it. I just want some sympathy that I lost a few days of work. Meanwhile I’ll be working on moving off of Obsidian Sync.
About 25 files were corrupted. If you’re relying on Obsidian Sync, be VERY vigilant that your backups are working. I surely can’t be the only one this ever happens to.
I use git with obsidian and obsidian sync together but the git root directory is above the obsidian root directory and none of the git stuff has been interfered with in this configuration. I do occasionally lose data though its been exclusively from the lineage plugin for some reason, and every time obsidian sync has saved me.
I do see a lot of threads of people losing data though, and I wonder what the root cause is. A loss of that size would make me rethink using a tool entirely.
I didn’t use Obsidian Sync to sync the git folder. The backups failed just because I was relying on the git plugin to do the commit & push and it disabled itself somehow.
Obsidian itself is ok (though is very mac-flavored), Obsidian Sync is too unreliable to use for anything of value.
Yeah I’ll have to figure out what my new workflow is going to be. All I know for sure is it’s not going to involve Obsidian Sync. It’s difficult when you use Windows & Android because very few workflows sync seamlessly between those platforms. (The only one I’ve found that does seem to work well is Google Docs). It’s such a shame, Sync seemed perfect but this corruption is unacceptable.