Steps to reproduce I have 321 notes/files syncing between three devices Windows Desktop, iPad and iPhone. Here is how to reproduce the problem: I have synced all files between all three devices and an update on one gets pushed to the two others. Great. So I continue to work some on my Windows 10 P…

This happened to me yesterday, on latest MacOS + iOS. I will add 1 new piece of information which I don’t believe has been mentioned so far: It wasn’t only sync conflicts within files that occurred. In addition to that, I had deleted a number of notes and images on my computer earlier in the day, …

There’s another bug report for that (or at least for behavior like that): Obsidian Sync repeatedly restoring deleted files .

Thanks, to be clear, both happened in the same sync: data loss in notes as well as deleted files getting restored.

[image] WhiteNoise: there is no way really to fix this, because when there are multiple conflicting changes, only YOU (the user) know what’s right. No algorithm can merge them correctly. The case I am seeing repeatedly (today again) is Obsidian Sync overwriting a file with text with an EMPTY …

[image] hmijail: is obviously wrong it’s not obliviously wrong. You may have intentionally deleted the contents of the note. In that case, the empty note being pushed is correct. I assume you didn’t intentionally do that, but just seeing the note is empty so something surely went wrong is no…

For myself I changed the setting to create conflict files and luckily only a handful were created in Dec 2025, now it seems to have settled down - BUT I am now extremely lairy of Sync, which is a shame. I can attest that even MS struggled with sync protocols when they launched Onedrive, and Google …

The conflict file creation setting triggers a notification when the creation happens, which is good. But the notification should be somehow sticky, so it stays there until explicitly dismissed. I find myself having to check from time to time whether I missed some conflict or not, whether I wrote som…

[image] hmijail: The conflict file creation setting triggers a notification when the creation happens Mine get created without notification, as far as I’ve seen.

I also haven’t noticed any visual notifications or popups on macOS, Windows, or iOS when a conflict files is created.

I copied an earlier tip to set a bookmark to the search phrase ‘conflict xyz’ which is appended to the suspect filename - granted this is still manual but at least is just one click away when you need to know.

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