I just sent another DM to @WhiteNoise with an example of a conflict situation. Four files incorrectly reflected that the versions on my iPhone were newer than the versions that were incoming from my desktop, despite the edits only having been made on my desktop and the files on the iPhone being older versions.
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Opening my spare tablet after a month of disuse created 39 conflict files. None were legitimate. They were all just the old versions that should have been replaced by the incoming changes. Not all of them were big. I don’t have the Sync log because I had to turn off Restricted Mode to use the diff plugin and forgot to save the log first (relevant FR: Obsidian Sync: Persistent / Save Sync logs for debugging).
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We have a hypothesis on what is happening but need some help verifying. For those who:
- Have their conflict files still, and;
- Were primarily having the conflict files created from the mobile device
Can you please check if the conflict file matches the prior version of the file exactly with no changes. By prior version, we mean if you made an edit to file A on Day 1, then again on Day 2, then again on Day 3, confirm if the files match exactly for Day 1 or Day 2. Screenshots would help.
So, in my case, I am using my iPad very rarely recently. Editing my files mostly on my Windows PC and my Phone.
Whenever I get to my iPad, and open Obsidian, it creates a conflicting files - in files that I don’t remember when I truly edited on last time on this device (just syncing it once in a while).
Here is a file that just got created with a conflict on my iPad:
My Programiści - historia programowania (Conflicted copy iPad 202602072229).md (1.4 KB)
and here is its original copy:
My Programiści - historia programowania.md (1.8 KB)
When I checked revisions of this original file, here is what I see.
The 3rd revision is the one that I ended up in the conflict file (from what I see)
This time I got about 4 conflicting files created. There’s another one that popped up as conflicting on my iPad, that I never edited nor even opened it here. It has a PII data, so I wont post it here, but in it’s case the second revision is the one that got created as a conflict.
Another conflicting files from this batch of conflicts is on a 3rd revision. So, there is some pattern to it, that its 2-3 revision.