Hi, I’ve been using obsidian for over a year now and I am experiencing these issues:
I can’t copy and paste an image, nothing happens when I try to do this (nothing gets pasted).
I can’t use a to-do list plugin correctly, whenever I try to insert the square nothing happens.
I can’t create new notes using the designated buttons, I have to create them with a really silly approach.
I have tried my best to search for solutions, I uninstalled and installed again and nothing seems to change. I use obsidian for my work and the last couple of months have been so frustrating that I’m considering migrating to notion.
What can I do to reset everything and reinstall my plugins?
If we ask you to copy here your debug info (Command Palette → Show Debug Info), can you do that?
Also, state which platform you are on if more than one.
You don’t have it in the command palette?! That’s rather strange, are you running on a very old variant on your PC? Do you have an About Obsidian option in your menu somewhere?
SYSTEM INFO:
Obsidian version: v1.8.7
Installer version: v1.8.7
Operating system: Windows 10 Enterprise 10.0.19045
Login status: logged in
Language: en
Catalyst license: none
Insider build toggle: off
Live preview: on
Base theme: adapt to system
Community theme: none
Snippets enabled: 0
Restricted mode: off
Plugins installed: 11
Plugins enabled: 9
1: MAKE.md v0.9.7
2: Heatmap Calendar v0.6.0
3: Table of Contents v0.2.0
4: Excel to Markdown Table v0.4.0
5: Dataview v0.5.66
6: Editing Toolbar v2.4.6
7: @ Symbol Linking v1.6.2
8: Tag Wrangler v0.6.1
9: Tasks v6.2.0
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.
As I normally would say, I don’t know half your plugins, but…
MAKE.md – I’ve heard and seen problems from users who had it.
Editing Toolbar had performance issues: update it.
Tasks is way behind the latest version: update it.
Basically update all your plugins. And if you still face problems, turn off all of them, check the state of things and try turning them on one by one. Try to say goodbye to MAKE.md, probably.
With Editing Toolbar (which just raises CPU usage), if you prepared to fix that, you need to add that main.js subsitution file from the link with Obsidian closed.
Just to answer this specifically, you don’t need to reinstall the plugins.
In Settings → Community plugins → Current plugins → Check for updates
When you click that it will look for updates for them all. And then you can update them one by one, or all at once. I recommend backing up your vault before making big updates, just to be safe. (And backup always as well.)
After you click “Check for updates” you should see the button turn to “Update All”:
