Only today obsidian has started freezing. on a certian note it Locks up and no response to mouse click
Any pointers as to the cause of this
Shot in the dark, but you don’t happen to have the Iconize community plugin enabled do you? It freezes notes with certain special characters, exactly the way you’re describing—not even icons, just things like © and 
. If so, disable Iconize and see if the note behaves normally.
Otherwise…
Troubleshooting steps
Create a Sandbox vault and copy the entire note into it. Does it open okay? If yes, then the issue is likely a plugin, theme, or snippet. Get to investigating which one.
But if the note freezes in the sandbox too, then try to narrow your note’s contents down to the portion that that might be causing it.
Tips to finding out if the contents are responsible:
- Make a backup of the file.
- In your OS file system, rename the file. Does it then open okay in Obsidian? If yes, then it’s probably the filename. If no, then…
- Open the markdown file in your default editor, cut half the contents and paste them into a new markdown file, and save both files. Does one open okay in Obsidian and not the other? Then it’s likely something in the nonworking file. Continue narrowing down. Do neither open? Then both of them might contain a culprit. Continue with just one until you corner em.
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I have don as you suggested regarding move the note and recreate it which worked, I still cant figure out the culprit part yet but I will probably find the backup note and see if it causes the problem.
Thanks for the assistance.
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