Steps to reproduce
I have a vault on an external drive.
For reasons having to do with syncronization, I use an alternate name “.macos” instead of “.obsidian” for my obsidian prefs folder.
If I launch obsidian before the external drive has a chance to mount (as happens automatically with MacOS sometimes, annoyingly), then it forgets this folder and I have to go back and type it inot the prefs again.
Every time I boot, I go through this ritual.
The problem seems to be that if Obsidian cannot find a vault, it just deletes all record that it ever opened it.
Can Obsidian please just remember the last 5 vaults I used? If they are cluttering up my sidebar, make them removable!
Thanks
Environment
- Yes I have a lot of plugins, but this problem happens before they load.
SYSTEM INFO:
Obsidian version: v1.6.7
Installer version: v1.4.13
Operating system: Darwin Kernel Version 23.6.0: Fri Jul 5 17:56:41 PDT 2024; root:xnu-10063.141.1~2/RELEASE_ARM64_T6000 23.6.0
Login status: logged in
Catalyst license: insider
Insider build toggle: on
Live preview: on
Base theme: light
Community theme: Minimal v7.7.0
Snippets enabled: 2
Restricted mode: off
Plugins installed: 98
Plugins enabled: 87
1: Advanced URI v1.40.1
2: Dataview v0.5.67
3: Emoji Toolbar v0.4.1
4: Editor Syntax Highlight v0.1.3
5: Dynamic Highlights v0.3.1
6: Dangling links v0.3.0
7: Daily Activity v0.5.0
8: Buttons v0.5.1
9: Code Block Enhancer v1.0.5
10: Contextual Typography v2.2.5
11: Commander v0.5.1
12: Copy as HTML v1.1.3
13: Copy Block Link v1.0.4
14: BRAT v1.0.1
15: Link Converter v0.1.6
16: Enhancing Export v1.10.6
17: Markmind v2.0.0
18: Pandoc Plugin v0.4.1
19: Paste URL into selection v1.7.0
20: Periodic Notes v1.0.0-beta.3
21: Persistent Graph v0.1.5
22: Pinboard Sync v1.0.2
23: QuickAdd v1.9.1
24: Omnisearch v1.23.1
25: Janitor v1.0.7
26: Regex Find/Replace v1.2.0
27: Scales and Chords v1.0.1
28: Shell commands v0.22.0
29: Show Current File Path v0.5.2
30: Snippet Commands v0.0.2
31: Sort & Permute lines v0.7.0
32: Templater v2.3.3
33: TimeStamper v1.3.0
34: Tracker v1.14.0
35: Show Whitespace v0.3.1
36: Tasks v7.5.0
37: Waypoint v2.1.0
38: Workspaces Plus v0.3.3
39: HTML Tags Autocomplete v0.0.7
40: Recent Files v1.4.1
41: Charts v3.9.0
42: Note Refactor v1.8.2
43: Natural Language Dates v0.6.2
44: Minimal Theme Settings v8.0.2
45: Mind Map v1.1.0
46: Metadata Extractor v1.1.0
47: Keyboard Analyzer v0.1.3
48: Highlightr v1.2.2
49: Frontmatter Tag Suggest v0.4.1
50: Format Hotkeys v0.1.7
51: Find orphaned files and broken links v1.10.0
52: File Info Panel v1.3
53: Projects v1.17.3
54: ibook v2.0.12
55: Media DB v0.7.1
56: Sortable v0.3.1
57: Hot Reload v0.1.10
58: Task Collector (TC) v1.0.17
59: Chronology v1.1.11
60: Media Extended v3.2.4
61: Timestamp Notes v1.0.8
62: Settings Search v1.3.10
63: Linter v1.24.0
64: Archiver v0.26.1
65: Quiet Outline v0.3.35
66: Typewriter Scroll v0.2.2
67: Dictionary v2.22.0
68: Local Images Plus v0.15.9
69: Packrat v1.1.2
70: DB Folder v3.5.1
71: Calendar v1.5.10
72: Solve v1.0.2
73: Quick Tagger v2.2.3
74: Admonition v10.3.2
75: Better Word Count v0.10.1
76: Vault Statistics v0.1.3
77: Outliner v4.8.1
78: Collapse All v2.1.0
79: Fast Image Cleaner v0.8.3
80: Image Converter v1.1.7
81: Multi Properties v1.1.1
82: Style Settings v1.0.8
83: _Wealthychef’s Image Resizer v1.0.0
84: Plugin Reloader v0.0.3
85: _Wealthychef’s Amazing Tag Deleter v1.0.0
86: _Wealthychef Tag Wrangler v0.6.1
87: Remember File State v1.1.2
RECOMMENDATIONS:
Custom theme and snippets: for cosmetic issues, please first try updating your theme and disabling your snippets. If still not fixed, please try to make the issue happen in the Sandbox Vault or disable community theme and snippets.
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.