#1

Things I have tried

I have tried restarting the vault. I have tried restarting the computer. I have removed the theme and all the plugins and then restarted the vault again.

What I’m trying to do

When I am typing a note, every minute or two the top of the window starts flickering and anything I am typing gets delayed…and then when the flickering stops (last 2-3 seconds), the text comes through. I have been typing with the task manager open and I can see that the CPU usage for Obsidian spikes to around 9% and is followed up by Windows explorer spiking to low 20% and going (Not Responding) but a little bit but then returns to normal.

If I have the vault open in the background and am working on something like this, I will also experience the same issue. It feels as if Obsidian is running some sort of process in the background and then that creates everything to freeze while its processing.

#2

Is your vault on a local drive or a network drive? If it is local is it an external one that might be going to sleep? I had a similar issue happening while my vault was on a usb hard drive on another computer, the drive was going to sleep occasionally and when Obsidian would go to save/read there would be a long delay while the drive wakes up. Moving it to a local drive make the delay go away.

#3

The vault is stored locally in my documents.

#4

Can you please clarify? Is your vault a folder inside “My Documents”, or did you set “My Documents” to be the vault?

I am also pretty sure it is possible to configure OneDrive to sync your documents folder. You should definitely triple-check that you aren’t actually syncing that folder.

#5

Hi,
I have a folder within my documents which I have set as the folder for the vault, not the whole of ‘My Documents’.

I dont have any of my folders on my c drive syncing to any cloud storage. It is 100% local.

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#6

I’m having the exact same problem. Even the folder structure is same. Though I’ve not faced Windows Explorer becoming unresponsive yet, but there is a good lag even in the editor panel while typing the notes.

Any help would be appreciated!

#7

Could you perhaps test copying your vault to a location outside of the “My Documents” folder to see if it resolves the issue? Maybe something strange is going on in this built-in Windows folder, even if it isn’t synced.

(This is a shot in the dark. I haven’t used Windows in a couple years.)

Good, just checking. Some other people had done that, and it wasn’t good.

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#8

I tried it and it sort of worked. It’s better than before.
The remaining lag I figure is due to mathjax trying to render several equations in couple of my notes.

#9

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