'Open Recent' menu always disabled on Mac since 1.5.8 installer

ClareMacrae · March 1, 2024, 10:36am

Steps to reproduce

Note: This needs to be done on a Mac where at least 1 vault has previously been opened in Obsidian.

Open Obsidian
Click on the ‘Open another vault’ button in the left ribbon, to confirm that previously viewed vaults are listed
From the menu at the top of the Mac screen, select File → Open Recent

Note: I have confirmed that the same occurs when the only open vault is a brand new one, with no plugins installed or enabled - but have not listed the steps to do that, as it is not needed to reproduce the problem.

Did you follow the troubleshooting guide? Y

Expected result

Can select previously opened vault

Actual result

Open Recent is disabled/greyed out

Environment

SYSTEM INFO:
	Obsidian version: v1.5.8
	Installer version: v1.5.8
	Operating system: Darwin Kernel Version 23.2.0: Wed Nov 15 21:54:10 PST 2023; root:xnu-10002.61.3~2/RELEASE_X86_64 23.2.0
	Login status: logged in
	Catalyst license: vip
	Insider build toggle: on
	Live preview: on
	Base theme: adapt to system
	Community theme: none
	Snippets enabled: 0
	Restricted mode: on

RECOMMENDATIONS:
	none

Additional information

This worked with the following setup:

SYSTEM INFO:
	Obsidian version: v1.5.8
	Installer version: v1.4.13
	Operating system: Darwin Kernel Version 23.2.0: Wed Nov 15 21:54:10 PST 2023; root:xnu-10002.61.3~2/RELEASE_X86_64 23.2.0

And stopped working with this:

SYSTEM INFO:
	Obsidian version: v1.5.8
	Installer version: v1.5.8
	Operating system: Darwin Kernel Version 23.2.0: Wed Nov 15 21:54:10 PST 2023; root:xnu-10002.61.3~2/RELEASE_X86_64 23.2.0

ClareMacrae · March 1, 2024, 10:39am

Here is a screenshot of my ‘Open another vault’ view, to show that I really do have other ‘Recent’ vaults:

ClareMacrae · March 1, 2024, 11:43am

On Discord in vip-lounge, users pseudometa, trainbuffer and Pch have confirmed that they see the problem too, with the same versions.

WhiteNoise · March 1, 2024, 4:18pm

thanks

ClareMacrae · March 4, 2024, 8:42pm

Just to add a response from Obsidian team members via Discord.
It’s an upstream bug in Electron:

github.com/electron/electron

[Bug]: Recent api not working on macOS

opened 11:53AM - 24 Nov 23 UTC

create3000

platform/macOS bug

has-repro-repo 27-x-y

### Preflight Checklist - [X] I have read the [Contributing Guidelines](https:/…/github.com/electron/electron/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md) for this project. - [X] I agree to follow the [Code of Conduct](https://github.com/electron/electron/blob/main/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md) that this project adheres to. - [X] I have searched the [issue tracker](https://www.github.com/electron/electron/issues) for a bug report that matches the one I want to file, without success. ### Electron Version 27.1.2 ### What operating system are you using? macOS ### Operating System Version Sonoma ### What arch are you using? x64 ### Last Known Working Electron version don't know ### Expected Behavior Recent files added with `app.addRecentDocument` should appear in recentDocuments menu item and in dock app icon menu. ### Actual Behavior Although I use `app.addRecentDocument` there do not appear any files in recentDocuments menu item, neither in packaged version of app nor in development mode. ### Testcase Gist URL _No response_ ### Additional Information _No response_

ClareMacrae · March 5, 2024, 8:48pm

Argentum pointed out on Discord that a three-finger-swipe down on the Mac trackpad shows all the recent vaults and provides easy access to them.

That’s a great workaround for now!