Obsidian load/freeze indefinitely or for a few minutes on MacOS

[louis030195]

Steps to reproduce

I don’t know. Apologize. I have a very complex vault configuration.

I have been using Obsidian for maybe 3 years, this happens since 1-2 weeks.

Expected result

Obsidian open

Actual result

Obsidian freeze/load indefinitely

Environment

• Operating system:

• Debug info: ?

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Additional information

Initially was suspecting we did something wrong with our plugin GitHub - different-ai/obsidian-ava: Quickly format your notes with ChatGPT in Obsidian · GitHub but after deleting the folder from plugins (along other unused plugins), I still have this issue.

Is there any cache somewhere I could clear, maybe?

PS: I sync to icloud, obsidian sync, google drive, google photos, and git.

Or is there anything else I could try?

Thanks a lot

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Obsidian keeps indexing my vault

On Windows 7 and Windows 8, you can download iCloud for Windows on Apple’s website.

Workspace takes super long to load and then obsidian has to index my vault for half an hour and is very slow (Windows 11/ iCloud)

Steps to reproduce opening obsidian Expected result That the app opens and is ready to use Actual result Obsidian takes super long to index my vault (usually takes about 30-40 minutes to index …/51). Also, I noticed that I sometimes get the message that the file has been modified externally (which sets me back for 1 or 2 characters). And Obsidian creates about 30 (not accessible) file copies of the file I am working on when that happens. But I don’t know if these things have anything to do…

[louis030195]

Update: for some reason, Obsidian works again (had also issues with Finder BTW)

I remember having similar issues after enabling iCloud (somehow crash the computer :), maybe too many things to back-up). I cleaned a bit of my storage (almost full, Docker takes crazy amount of storage…) and things went better.

[CawlinTeffid]

If all of those sync services are syncing the same files to the same devices, that’s likely to cause problems (tho this isn’t one of the problems I’d expect).

[anon63144152]

I have experienced the same issue in the last week, especially when renaming files and then Finder freezing out the whole Mac. I think in my case it is something to do with the vault being stored in iCloud.

I have gone so far as to wipe my Mac and clean reinstall everything. Still got the same problem.

I suspect this is down to Apple. I don’t have an Apple device that isn’t problematic these days.

[louis030195]

The problem keeps happening, and I strongly suspect iCloud yes.

Really annoying, It seems to occur when I boot my computer, so the workaround seems to wait a bit before opening my Obsidian