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This has happened to me at least twice now (two times that I have identified), both after subscribing to Obsidian Sync.
The notes themselves do not disappear, they still exist in the graph with the same titles - however, their content gets removed entirely.
In one case, I had a note that had a title of “Focus.” When I viewed this note on the iOS app, it was empty. However, there was another note that had been automatically created called “Focus 2.” This note had all the content that had previously been in “Focus.”
Recently, I noticed that there was a new note called “Focus 3” and that the prior two notes “Focus” and “Focus 2” were no longer there (I had not deleted them). The only issue is that “Focus 3” was completely empty, and the content previously there was apparently not backed up on another item.
I found another note that was also emptied, though this note did not go through the same pattern as the one above - the content in it was simply removed during a sync process, I assume.
CONCLUSION: Obsidian Sync is randomly removing my notes, and deleting all of their content. The fact that this is possible is rather disturbing, as I have been using Obsidian for all of my note-taking for many months, and subscribed to Obsidian Sync mainly to support the project.
This bug could be silently destroying people’s notes that they NEED to keep for many years to come.