Obsidian sync keep deleting a folder

What I’m trying to do

I am trying to troubleshoot a problem with Obsidian sync keeps deleting my zettelkasten folder and all of its content.

Things I have tried

Sep 2024 - I contacted tech support and previous attempt was to only rename my vault to contain non-special character. My old vault name contains: " !" and I tried to remove the character in new vault name: “obs_vault”. Things seems to be OK, no more random delete

Oct 2024 - the sync plugin deleted my whole zettelkasten folder again. Please help with trouble shooting and / or problem resolve.

What OS? All the ones you sync to.

Where do store your vault? Is it stored in a folder that is synced with another cloud tool, like iCloud or OneDrive? Most likely, your problem is a sync conflict between multiple syncing tools.

Hi, thanks for the help.

What OS? All the ones you sync to.
Pc- windows 11 pro
iPad- iPad os 16.2

Where do store your vault?
I used sync core plugin. So sync server I guess.

Is it stored in a folder that is synced with another cloud tool, like iCloud or OneDrive?
No I followed advice and turned off iCloud folder sync feature. iCloud backup - off

Most likely, your problem is a sync conflict between multiple syncing tools.
That’s why I am asking for instructions to troubleshoot. And make sure problem would not happen again.

Thank you.

I meant, where on your local computers are you storing your vault? Sync is not cloud-only. It copies your local files to the server to move them from computer to computer. You are storing your vault somewhere. Can you please share the path?

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Ah. Here’s the abs path:

C:\Users\Tetracilin\obs_vault

I changed it to this path to make sure obsidian has write permission.

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