Is this because Markdown files are completely rewritten every time they are edited?
Can developers do anything about this, such as changing the mechanism of what happens to files during editing to avoid such cases?
Is there any point in writing a Feature Request about this? Or is this a feature of the Markdown format, and as long as Obsidian uses this format, there is nothing that can be done about it?
(I don’t need help with this – File Recovery helped.)
Computers can crash for any given reasons, at any given time …and hard drives can just fail to do their job (in my very humble opinion )
I don’t think there’s really anything anyone can do to prevent potential file(s) corruption due to some type of “system/hardware failure” which are generally invisible until you run into it (I could be wrong though … This is still just my humble opinion).
On the user side though, the best way to avoid panic and struggles if this kind of situation arise would be to:
I’d add that having backups of your whole system (not just your Obsidian’s vault(s)) and a backup/recovery strategy in place can be very handy (and reassuring )
For some resources/info, I know this website is often shared our here and helpful :
I regularly back up all my important data, but this data is not always the latest version, and sometimes, during such errors, work that was started very recently can be lost, and there is simply no backup copy.
If developers have the ability to change the mechanism of what happens to files while they are being edited, this could reduce the number of cases where people lose recently started work that is not included in the latest backup—after all, backups are not made every day or every week. Although, perhaps this is a question of the importance of the data for each individual user.
But the questions I asked are of interest to me precisely because in such cases, having a backup copy of the data does not always help.
In my case, the File Recovery plugin helped me, but I also recently saw that, for some reason, one of the users did not have any backups made by the File Recovery plugin, so I think you can’t rely solely on it either.
I don’t want to accept the idea that, one way or another, some data will be lost at some point.
I would like to minimize the amount of possible losses, especially when it comes to my personal «system», which plays a rather important role in my life—where I study, manage my projects, keep personal notes, and organize some data.
I believe that software should be designed in such a way that it does not increase the potential for data loss.
…and hard drives can just fail to do their job (in my very humble opinion 
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(and reassuring 
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website is often shared our here and helpful