Obsidian "forgets" about vault location after reboot, it vault is on secondary internal Disk

[RomanoMcBride]

To reproduce:

• on 2019 Mac Pro, install macOS on internal SSD as is standard
• install a secondary, internal, SATA disk, using APFS encrypted
• on that disk, place your obsidian vault using the app
• reboot Mac
• Mac reboots and all disks re-mount, but…

Expected behavior:

Obsidian will start up and loads the last vault that was open.

Observed behavior:

Obsidian will start up, but it’ll be empty and the vault no longer shows in the side bar.

[WhiteNoise]

if obsidian starts before the disks are remounted, that’s expected.

Keep vaults in the vault selector when their location is (temporarily) not available

When I use obsidian with a bitlocker vault on USB, the vault gets removed from the selection screen when (temporary) not available. This results in the vault configuration to be removed, like the sync information, etc. Use case: I sync my work notes but want them secure. So I put an obsidian vault on a USB stick with bitlocker. I mount the USB stick by unlocking the bitlocked vault I select my vault in Obsidian (in this case D:\Work) I have to setup sync, disable safe mode, etc. It sync perfe…

[RomanoMcBride]

Why can’t Obsidian at least keep the vault in the sidebar so I can open it again without having to navigate to that folder every time I reboot?

[CawlinTeffid]

That’s what the feature request WhiteNoise linked to is asking for. To show your support for it you can comment on it or press the heart button under the main post.

[Lost4EverLost]

Install and use tools like “Delay Start”, “Lingon X”, or “LaunchControl” to configure a delayed launch of Obsidian. These apps allow you to set conditional startup parameters—such as waiting until specific disks are mounted—so that Obsidian doesn’t start before your vault location is available.