#1

It would be good to have a refresh button that re-reads the Vault directories. I have a web clipper that saves a markdown file to the directory in Dropbox. The only way I have found to get the note to show up in Obsidian is to close and restart the app. As it does not natively refresh upon a new file added.

#2

Ah so you can press CTRL-R to refresh the whole UI which is a workaround for now

#3

As you add files, they should show up almost instantly in your Obsidian File Explorer, is that not happening?

#4

I’ve added two markdown files to my vault directory, and neither show up - not after refreshing, nor after restarting Obsidian.

As I was typing this, I realized the files had .txt extensions. When I changed them to .md, they showed up immediately. I guess this is by design? It’s not obvious behavior.

#5

I am having the same problem, sometimes it takes so long to a file get updated. With query blocks it is getting really annoying. Is this Ctrl + R fro refresh really is a thing? How can I refresh? (I am asking because this thread is old and probably a lot has happened since)

#6

This would also help me greatly. I have one subfolder of my vault which I mount an encrypted container to. But every time I mount it, I have to restart Obsidian so it picks up the files that are then in the subfolder.

Ctrl R doesn’t seem to work for me.

#7

Oh actually there is the Reload app without saving action, so you can assign a shortcut to that. It seems to do exactly what was being requested (and maybe Ctrl R is bound to that by default and I removed it?)

#8

ctrl+r was originally the default but that got changed because people were running into problems by hitting it without understanding what it did. You can re-bind it.

#10

I’m having the same problem: after I add a new file Obsidian fails to recognize it. I must first close the app, then re-open it. Extremely annoying. To make things worse, when I try to “reload app without saving”, nothing happens. A nasty one-two combo: fails to reload automatically, fails to reload with function key.

I’m using Windows 11. Could that be relevant?

#11

It’d be also very useful to add a “Save all and reload app” or “Save & reload active file/pane” command. Taking Obsidian Tracker as an use case example, currently when data in a tracker data md file is modified, one has to close the file, reopen it and the restore the pane layout manually, far from neat. As a workaround I now save my file first and then press Ctrl-R to reload, which costs extra keystroke and delay.

#12

Here is a use case for adding a “reload/refresh current page/note” command: I use a screen clipping service called CleanShot. You can copy a window or a portion of your screen, and it will store the image in the cloud and generate a tiny URL. This can take a few seconds. As an optimization, CleanShot makes the URL available immediately so you can paste it into a document (an Obsidian note in this case) before the resource is available in the cloud. If I do that in Obsidian, I will only see the URL (or I will see nothing in Live Preview). I have to select a different note and go back to the original note to see the image. It would be very convenient to have a “refresh page/note” command that would just reload the note and have all my images appear once they are stored in the cloud.