Phone -Plugin no longer active- fills up the right side panel

Bug reports
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Steps to reproduce

  • Install some community plugin superstition plugin
  • monitor how community plugins spam the right side panel for several days (1-3 days)
  • even after deactivating community plugins, spammed popups persist in the right side panel and aren’t purged by Obsidian.

Did you follow the troubleshooting guide? [Y/N]

Y

Expected result

After deactivating a buggy plugin (which spams the right side panel with pop-up choices - please see attached picture), Obsidian should do some cleanup / purging to remove missing 3rd party plugin entries, instead to show “plugins no longer active” (at least on phone). I know the root issue was the superstition plugin, but Obsidian should do some cleanup too.

Actual result

Deactivating, then uninstalling the plugin causing this issue didn’t help, Reloading, quitting Obsidian then restarting the phone didn’t help either. How to get rid of this long list of useless entries?

Selecting these buggy entries doesn’t remove them, but makes Obsidian jump to a valid plugin entry then “Plugin no longer active” takes over its name.

Environment

SYSTEM INFO:
Operating system: android 11 (motorola moto e40)
Obsidian version: 1.7.7 (171)
API version: v1.7.7
Login status: not logged in
Language: en
Live preview: on
Base theme: light
Community theme: none
Snippets enabled: 0
Restricted mode: on

RECOMMENDATIONS:
Tab and hold the “plugin no longer active” popup button for a second or two, to manually remove invalid pop-up buttons, one by one. The only solution, but takes a lot of time, whereas purging duplicates would be immediate

Additional information

Screenshot_20250206-144128
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The list on this screenshot is twice as long, always with the same “Plugin no longer active” warning.

1 Like
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Hello! I am having exactly the same issue. In my case, the culprit seems to be MAKE.md plug-in. I am using the latest version of IOS (without AI features however). Please, someone help us solve the issue.

PS: Thank you all for being an awesome community!

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In the meantime spamming didn’t go away, removing the community plugin mentioned in my bug report.

It must be a plugin with a bad loop code block.
BTW, as powerful as the MAKE.MD plugin is, I heard all times complains on the forums, probably because the author has very high ambitions but his code skills aren’t at the same level. I hope this sounds not too hard, as I appreciate developers in general.

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does long pressing on the tab title open a menu where you can close that tab?

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Yes, it keeps spamming somewhat under control, but it doesn’t remove the underlying problem. (My only advice under RECOMMENDATIONS)

The procedure to remove invalid entries is tedious, because you’ve to remove one by one. A purge script could remove invalid entries in a sec.

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Which plugin is causing this?

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My next best guess is the Repeat plugin by Andre Perunicic.
This problem is unusual, most plugins which use the side bar, don’t cause panel duplication.

Edit
After moving my vault over to another phone I got the very same issue.
The solution: I deactivated the Repeat plugin, this removed all spamming. Therefore, I’ll inform the plugin author and hope Obsidian devs consider to add a purge routine as well. @WhiteNoise