The other day I made a recording during a band practice, using Obsidian’s built-in recorder, on my Macbook. It made an .M4A file. Today I noticed that file hadn’t synced to my Windows machine. Confused, I checked my settings, on both machines syncing audio files is enabled. I tried making a new recording. On either machine, making a new recording syncs it straight away no issues. But if I add this one single file from either machine, Obsidian completely ignores it. Nothing shows up in the sync log. I’ve moved it around, renamed it, even transcoded it to a different to MP3 in case Obsidian had hashed the file and was ignoring it based on the hash instead of the file name. Nothing. But on either machine, adding a new recording syncs immediately. Somehow, even if I transcode the file, and copy it into my vault with a completely new filename, Obsidian is still ignoring it, which makes no sense.
Can someone help me understand here? If Sync can just randomly, silently, ignore a file like this, it’s not fit for purpose. Currently extremely disappointed with this service, I’ve been using less than a month.
Haha that’s embarrassing, that’ll teach me for coming in hot. Yes, seems like that’s the answer. Eventually, after I resorted to cropping the file slightly, it synced, and I wasn’t sure why. Now that I look, the versions that wouldn’t sync were just a touch over 5MB, and the one that did, is slightly below. So that explains that bevaviour. I guess I will need to upgrade to Sync Plus or keep my files smaller.
Thank you for your help. If I could offer some feedback, it might be useful to have a message in the sync log saying that a file has been ignored due to its size, or something similar.
