Yes, I tried to follow the troubleshooting guide. However, this failure precedes any vault being opened.
I reinstalled Obsidian from scratch multiple times.
I manually removed the contents of /Applications/Obsidian.appLibrary/Application\ Support/obsidian.
I also started Obsidian from the command line so I could see errors, but nothing appeared during the time Obsidian was frozen. Afterwards, I got this single message:
2024-02-17 12:55:46.327 Obsidian[4565:34678] *** Assertion failure in -[NSOpenPanel _initBridgeAndStuff], NSSavePanel.m:432
I had the same issue with my normal user account. But when I used an account with admin rights, the problem didn’t appear anymore. So it seems Obsidian needs admin rights to be able to create a vault on Mac OS X.
It was Full Disk Access for me. I had been using Obsidian on this computer, but when I turned it on this AM, I had the “opening dialog hang,” issue. System Settings | Full Disk Access didn’t even show Obsidian in the list as disabled, so added it. Worked right away, no reboot.
SYSTEM INFO:
Obsidian version: v1.5.12
Installer version: v1.5.12
Operating system: Darwin Kernel Version 23.4.0: Fri Mar 15 00:12:41 PDT 2024; root:xnu-10063.101.17~1/RELEASE_ARM64_T8103 23.4.0
Login status: not logged in
Insider build toggle: off
Live preview: on
Base theme: adapt to system
Community theme: none
Snippets enabled: 0
Restricted mode: off
Plugins installed: 1
Plugins enabled: 1
1: Importer v1.6.1
RECOMMENDATIONS:
Community plugins: for bugs, please first try updating all your plugins to latest. If still not fixed, please try to make the issue happen in the Sandbox Vault or disable community plugins.