Changes performed outside of Obsidian are not watched for, so if you change the file directly, Obsidian will not detect the change, update search indexes, etc.
Is there any way of forcing a re-index for symlinked files that you may run once in a while.
This was initially phrased as a feature request but moved to #get-help. So perhaps we can move it back? Would probably be useful if custom plugins could hook into re-indexing etc as well.
I don’t think we’ll see this anytime soon, though. How would Obsidian know how a changed file corresponds with a selection of links? How would this handle copying/moving and the like? It seems simple at face value but implementation would probably be very difficult.
My iPad workflow would necessitate a command I could call (even from a Siri Shortcut with Advanced URI) that does a re-index. It is helpful when moving md and especially image files over to the vault.
With the new Live Preview handling sheets of text (not a fan of it so far), I cannot see images until I wait a few seconds and playing around with Reading and Editing Mode.