New Obsidian v. 1.8.4 is incompatible with my ancient macOS 10.15.7. How do I rollback installation to a previous version?

The title says it all. New Obsidian v. 1.8.4 is incompatible with my ancient macOS 10.15.7. How do I rollback the attempted installation? If this version doesn’t work, I‘d like to rollback to one that does, but I don’t see older versions available on the web site.

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Hello.

Previous versions are available on GH:

Also, before you do try to install the older version:

  1. Turn auto-updates off. (Well maybe you can’t since you can’t run the app? But turn wi-fi off while you install, maybe?)

  2. You might also have to go into this folder:
    ~/Library/Application Support/obsidian

And delete the obsidian-1.8.4.asar file (or move, or rename obsidian-1.8.4.asarBACKUP or something), otherwise, it might just auto-update or persist anyway. (And you might want to backup that folder, just in case.)

I’m also on that ancient version of macOS, so I’m going to run into similar problems. However, there is another option available too, and that is to run Docker locally, and then start up the obsidian - LinuxServer.io within that. Then you’re not limited by the macOS anymore, but more a different limit related to Docker.

However, if you install Docker version 4.15.0 (93002) it seems to run just fine on this mac version (although it do complain every now and then that it can’t upgrade to a newer version due to the OS. But it runs just fine!

I’m currently actually running both Obsidian 1.7.7 (installer 1.7.7) on my macOS 10.15.7 on a given folder, and then I’ve setup the Docker instance which uses 1.8.4 to pull its configuration from .obsidian.docker and pointed to the same folder. I’ve not had any problem with this setup (other than a minor case of forgetting to not press ESC directly, so as not to quit the web browser fullscreen I’m running the container in… :stuck_out_tongue: )

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It would be nice if the changelog could link to the corresponding release on github.

I hear that, but here’s a tip that might help? The releases are tagged with a corresponding version number. Tags · obsidianmd/obsidian-releases · GitHub

Each tag has corresponding downloads. It would be nice for a link, but you can find the download that way. I imagine they don’t want to make it too easy for beginners to grab the wrong version, and end up with confusing support conflicts. And then when you know you need a specific version, you can go find it in the Tags list.

You can also see the tags by clicking on “master” and switching from Branches to Tags.

I appreciate the effort to help! I think the issue is not finding the releases once one knows they are on github but rather learning that they are available on github in the first place. From what I saw the only ways of finding out are:

  1. Stumbling upon the github link in the footer of the homepage and suspecting that releases are there. But this only works for people with a programming background.
  2. Searching the forum for it and finding this topic.

If there is a better way that I missed, the fact that I did miss it is (weak) evidence that is not actually that good.

If linking the change-log entries to the relevant release is considered too confusing, at least mentioning the possibility of downloading old versions via github would be much appreciated. In fact, I would do both. And probably add a link on the downloads page as well.

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Instead to roll back I’d suggest to move on, abandon commercial Os and install Linux, choose the popular distros.

Get an USB stick minimum 20 gb to install boot images and have a first look around and see what Linux distros can actually be and do. Example: