Plugins are deactivated on Launch (Core and Community) + Side panes changes are not saved

Bug reports
1

Steps to reproduce

  • Start Obsidian
  • Activate Plugins as Needed (in my case Community Plugin Quick-Add and Core Plug in Workspace)
  • Arrange the side panes as you wish (Backlinks, local graph etc.)
  • Close Obsidian
  • Start Obsidian again, the Plugins are inactive once again and the changes in the side panes are not visable.

Did you follow the troubleshooting guide? [Y/N] Yes, and not even the default theme was saved, so after reopening obsidian, my installed theme was active again.

Expected result

I would like to have the plugins active and my changes in themes and settings to be saved. I started to try-out the plug in workspaces, because i noticed, that changes in the side panes were not saved. But the workaround (load a workspace) is not doable if the plugin is inactive.

Actual result

The plugins were inactive and the side panes were not as they should be

Environment

SYSTEM INFO:
Obsidian version: v1.8.10
Installer version: v1.8.10
Operating system: Windows 11 Home 10.0.26100
Login status: not logged in
Language: de
Insider build toggle: off
Live preview: on
Base theme: adapt to system
Community theme: none
Snippets enabled: 0
Restricted mode: on

RECOMMENDATIONS:
none

Additional information

2

Where’s the location of your vault? Is it in a sync service folder or somewhere watched by a sync service? OneDrive, GoogleDrive, etc.

3

Initially I had it on SynologyDrive… But to eliminate that cause, I copied to the desktop and reinstalled Obsidian… Nothing changed

4

Acually, there are some more issues (that I guess are related)

  • Core Plugin Canvas re-activates itself
  • I’m unable to delete hotkeys I don’t use, so that I could use them for something else
  • Even “free” hotkeys are not saved

Thanks for looking into it

5

Try creating a new vault in C:/Users/YOU/, so something like C:/Users/YOU/MyVault and see how that vault behaves.

6

Sounds like you have write permissions problems in your vault.

7

How could that happen? What to do about it? I’ll try creating a new one.

8

Creating a new vault on C/Users/Me seems to have solved the issue. I was now able to activate and deactivate core plugins as needed, and designed the side panes as i wish. When reopening obsidian the changes are saved… I tried to install quick add as communitiy plugin, and it worked fine!

How high would you rate the risk of recreating the issue, when I copy my files into the new vault? I would only copy the .md files, no folders…