Obsidian deletes the wrong file

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Steps to reproduce

  1. Right click file “A” → Delete
  2. Confirm “Are you sure you want to delete ‘A’?” → Yes
  3. File B is deleted

Expected result

  1. File A to be deleted

Actual result

  1. File B was deleted

Environment

  • Operating system:

macOS 12.6.1

  • Debug info:

SYSTEM INFO:
Obsidian version: v1.1.16
Installer version: v1.0.3
Operating system: Darwin Kernel Version 21.6.0: Thu Sep 29 20:13:56 PDT 2022; root:xnu-8020.240.7~1/RELEASE_ARM64_T6000 21.6.0
Login status: not logged in
Insider build toggle: off
Live preview: on
Legacy editor: off
Base theme: dark
Community theme: none
Snippets enabled: 0
Restricted mode: on

RECOMMENDATIONS:
none

Additional information

I just got started with Obsidian, created maybe 10-15 files. Created a file called “Depth Maps” which then started to throw an “Failed to save file. EMLINK: too many links” error, even though the file is basically empty. When trying to delete said file, a different file (Composable LoRA) is deleted instead (as described above) → see screenshots below.

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2

Work around

Close Obsidian, delete the file in Finder, reopen Obsidian. The error is gone, and the file can now be created/deleted correctly.

3

You are misunderstanding the error. The problem begins with “Failed to save file. EMLINK: too many links”.

Two things. 1) Download and reinstall Obsidian. 2) Make sure that Dropxbox keeps the file locally and it’s not downloaded on demand.