Went to open obsidian and after updating it the last 2 months of notes was deleted. Syncthing is saving me cause it’s recovering my notes from the other nodes.
Did I do something wrong?
EDIT: this happend on macos 14.5
This has happened to me as well, I didn’t realise if it was my mistake for not saving the vault. I did not have sync enabled unfortunately.
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Obsidian does not or shouldn’t mass delete files.
- You could have manually deleted those files internally or externally of obsidian.
- Some third-party plugin that you use or external program that you use might have done the deed.
- Another option is that you use a third party sync solution and that software has deleted the files. Moreover, sometimes third-party sync solution only “pretend” to keep the files on your computer, so to some programs like Obsidian, it may appear that the files were deleted.
This is an excerpt from the troubleshooting instructions:
Make sure your files stored locally. If you are using a third-party sync system, like iCloud or OneDrive, you need make sure that they are configured so that they keep a complete local copy of your vault. For iClould on MacOS it means having “Optimize Mac Storage” DISABLED.
Remember, always have a backup and sync apps are not backups.
I was working in Obsidian when I encountered an issue. I tried to switch between notes, but the program wouldn’t open the selected one.
To provide more context, I was specifically making changes in Excalidraw, but unfortunately, the edits weren’t saved. When I attempted to return to the previously opened note, I received this error message. While I have a backup, I’m quite concerned about what caused this sudden problem.
Well, what comes to mind IN A BIG WAY… sounds like a bug has entered your system. REALLY! Keep your other vaults AWAY from what you’re doing FOR NOW. STop using the s/w and begin testing with a series of test files. I do that when I get into a FIX like THIS!
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no file is open – i know that one…
when something is indexing or acting up in the background (my candidates: dataview and obsidian query language plugins), the editor is frozen and if you were to go to a new previously opened tab, it will have even overwritten the contents of the file on that tab you’ve switched to…
it may have something to do with some race conditions or asyncronous js bs and even with obsidian’s internal save-file mechanism
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You’re absolutely right، Thanks for clarifying that.
I was mistaken about changing file size directly.
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