Hi. Search is completely dead for me. I cannot search for anything. I also cannot click on tags as that seem to rely on the search feature.
Things I have tried
I have tried to change to default theme. I have also tried to disable all custom plugins.
I have also tried to switch different features of the search on/off. But since not even tags are working I think its something in the core functionality.
What I’m trying to do
I’m trying to search and klick on tags.
I can also mention that “right clicking” on a tag in the list of tags does not work. No popup menu comes up.
Do you get any error messages at all in the Developer Tools > Console view?
(Go View > Toggle Developer Tools, and select the Console pane in there. Trigger a search, and see if there are some error messages at the bottom of the list. )
I also suggest restarting Obsidian; there are some plugins that hook into Search but don’t properly unload themselves when they get disabled, so the best way to make sure that a plugin is not interfering is to restart the app after disabling plugins.
I can also mention that “right clicking” on a tag in the list of tags does not work. No popup menu comes up.
There is no right-click menu for the tag menu in the core app. I believe the Tag Wrangler plugin adds a right-click menu, but there isn’t one in the core app.
I made some progress in narrowing down the problem.
It’s in my vault!
If I open another vault or create a new empty vault; search is working. So the Obsidian app is not broken.
I moved all folders and files out of my faulty vault except for 1 tiny note and it still did not work. Looking in the terminal I see that there is a hidden folder called “.obsidian”. The problem must lie in there somehwere.
Any suggestions to what to do? Perhaps I should just move all my files/folders into a freshly created vault and start enabling plugins, change settings etc. to manuallt restore what I had setup.
But it would be nice to also find the real problem…
Look at my app.json it has a userIgnoreFilter of “” which becomes an ignore everything.
This is very easy to create by mistake. You just go into the Files & Links setting and press the “Add” button to create an empty regexp. It will look like this:
@johanlund You just made my day, I was wondering for several days now, what this was. I also tried with a fresh .obsidian folder and noticed that it works then, but never got down to the app.json.
Many thanks!
