Obsidian Sync repeatedly restoring deleted files

[leotohill]

I’ve had the same problem, complicated by a folder that was being recursively duplicated to maximum depth. I worked around it by excluding that folder.

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Search produces thousands of duplicate results

Once you’ve done the above, delete everything above this line. Steps to reproduce Open the vault. Click the search icon. Type in “passkey” . I should get about 10 hits in 2 notes. After a wait of many seconds, results begin to appear. The results list the same file with 5 hits, again and again and again, finally listing 2,146 results. Did you follow the troubleshooting guide? [Y/N] Y Y Expected result two notes found, a few hits per note. Actual result See above. The same note lis…