Obsidian Sync: Images missing

[cmscss]

Hi There,

I’m using Obsidian Sync to sync my Vault but am missing images when viewing older pages.

Vault location

Looking at File > Vault, I can see the Vault isn’t saved in Dropbox or iCloud Drive, but in the top-level of my users folder - I don’t have any other cloud services…

~/Vaults/Obsidian/vault-name

Attachments location

It’s been a while since I setup the vault and sync but I can see that I have a /Assets folder setup and in preferences, “Attachments folder path” is set to: vault-name/Assets

Missing images in notes

When I open a note with missing images, I see this…

Missing images location

If I search for the missing image in the Finder, I see it located in the /Assets folder within the vault at…

~/Vaults/vault-name/Assets/mc6pro-toggle-mode-crunch 2.jpg

Questions

Does anyone know why this happens and how to fix?

Any help much appreciated.

Cheers, Ben

• Obsidian Version 1.9.12
• MacOS 15.6.1

[WhiteNoise]

Which Obsidian Sync subscription do you have?

Are the images larger than 5MB?

@cmscss

~/Vaults/Obsidian/vault-name

@cmscss

~/Vaults/vault-name/Assets/mc6pro-toggle-mode-crunch 2.jpg

these two are different. There’s no Obsidian in the second.

[cmscss]

Thanks for that. Had chatGPT troubleshoot and discovered that “Optimise Mac Storage” was on and that “Desktop & Document Folders” must of been on in iCloud settings at some point.

I also searched for the image name and located the second /Assets folder that was part of iCloud drive and have copied all the images into: ~/Vaults/vault-name/Assets

Seems to be fixed.

Cheers, Ben