I’ve been an avid defender of this Markdown app for years. However, lately, this has changed as the most recent changes in updates have broken my workflow.
I have thousand of notes created over the years and I use lots of images for my user guides.
I normally create a hierarchy folder tree which contains a specific folder called “resources”. This folder is the one I use per parent folder to save the images I need for each note I create.
I’ve noticed that no matter what I do, whether it is using a local copy of my vault, a third party syncing method and now the Obsidian Sync paid feature, the images pasted are not rendered in the correct order or there are completely different images in my notes which were not supposed to be there in the first place.
This happens regardless of creating creating a new note, or seeing my older notes. The pasted images (most of which are saved in the “resources” folders per parent topic), are not showing the way they should.
I made sure these images are saved to the “resources” folder of the parent folder for the topic in question, then close Obsidian, and shutdown my computer.
When I launched Obsidian app again later in the day or the next day, and take a look at the notes, the images are simply not rendering in the right place within the note body, or there are simply inaccurate images that do not belong to a particular note.
This is so frustrating as I have to manually look for the right images and then use them again to replace the wrong ones per note. Needless to say, this is quite upsetting as I lose valuable time.
Steps to reproduce
- I create a new note, create my user guide step by step including images (some of them pasted from clipboard after capturing screenshots). I placed the images into a new “resources” folder I create per topic (parent folder).
- I wait for the syncing process to finish. Everything looks good, so I close Obsidian app or shutdown my computer if no longer needed.
- The next day or the very same day when I see the note I created, I notice that the images are not the ones I pasted when I created the guide. In some cases, the images are not even in the right sequence per steps in my guide.
Please note that this is also happening to my existing notes from years ago.
Did you follow the troubleshooting guide? Yes.
There are no custom CSS themes or plugins, other than the ones strictly required to enhance my productivity creating notes.I do have multiple third party plugins but I always keep them up to date.
Expected result
I expect to see my notes rendering the correct images when I create my notes and paste images. This should be the outcome all the time even after close Obsidian or restart the computer.Actual result
I keep seeing images missing or not placed in the right order per steps.Environment
SYSTEM INFO:
Obsidian version: v1.8.9
Installer version: v1.8.9
Operating system: #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu, 13 Mar 2025 18:12:00 +0000 6.13.7-arch1-1
Login status: logged in
Language: en
Catalyst license: none
Insider build toggle: off
Live preview: off
Base theme: dark
Community theme: Neovim v0.4.0
Snippets enabled: 0
Restricted mode: off
Plugins installed: 61
Plugins enabled: 61
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