Reinstalled Obsidian and All Files Became Inaccessible

[dovewithscales]

What I’m trying to do

I uninstalled and reinstalled Obsidian, and now the content of all files has been replaced with some permutation of text like the following:

HBEGIN:oc_encryption_module:OC_DEFAULT_MODULE:cipher:AES-256-CTR:signed:true:useLegacyFileKey:false:encoding:binary:HEND------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Things I have tried

I searched for the problem by a variety of terms and found no one describing a problem like this. The closest I found was someone whose files had been replaced by empty blocks, which was a font problem. Nothing like this.

[Pch]

I’m sorry this is happening and I sadly won’t be able to help much (sorry ) but it could potentially be useful to add a bit more context (for those who might be able to help you out :clover: ) :

• What device/OS is concerned by the issue ?
• Where was your vault located before uninstalling/reinstalling Obsidian ?
• Did you sync your vault across devices ? If yes, how ?
• …

I quickly googled OC_DEFAULT_MODULE:cipher:AES-256-CTR and FWIW, I stumbled upon results having to do with Nextcloud (mostly) ?

[CawlinTeffid]

Were you using an encryption plugin that you need to reinstall or re-enable?

[digitaldoctors]

@dovewithscales

HBEGIN:oc_encryption_module:OC_DEFAULT_MODULE:cipher:AES-256-CTR:signed:true:useLegacyFileKey:false:encoding:binary:HEND

Seems to be a NextCloud encryption issue.

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Cannot unencrypt notes after moving vault into a nextcloud folder

Things I have tried *I tried moving my vault back into the original location. *I tried opening the vault in a different program *I tried opening the vault through Obsidian’s vault opening prompts *I have gone through the internet and learned that I need to enter a password somewhere. Where do I access this portal to put in my password? Is it done automatically? What I’m trying to do Hello, I am having some issues accessing my vault after moving my vault from my windows documents folder …

nextcloud forum post

Moved my Nextcloud instance and Collectives don't decrypt

[dovewithscales]

Okay, better context. I was originally using Nextcloud on a Windows 11 computer. In the process of switching to a different computer (a Windows 10 laptop) I also stopped using Nextcloud and used OneDrive to transfer my files because Nextcloud was doing a bad job of that.

I’ve since tried moving my Obsidian files out of OneDrive into the regular documents folder of the laptop, but I’m still getting the same error code. It seems like Nextcloud encrypted something (which I didn’t tell it to do) and now it’s still encrypted even though it’s not on Nextcloud anymore. I no longer use Nextcloud for file storage at all. I like their calendar and email but a lot of their other services were pissing me off. I like things that just work.

[digitaldoctors]

@dovewithscales

Nextcloud encrypted something

Agreed.
The way out of this would be through their site / forum.