Steps to reproduce
After removing files from the vault, in my case a few thousand images and videos in multiple formats, Obsidian stalls either at ‘loading vault’ or at ‘loading cache’.
The “fix” is to
rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/obsidian/Cache/Cache_Data/*
rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/obsidian/IndexedDB/*
```
I’ve currently installed the minimal theme and its plugin, but the issue also occurred before I installed both. I’m currently cleaning up a lot of old stuff and so far had to remove cache and index four or five times.
Did you follow the troubleshooting guide? [Y/N]
Should this “fix” be part of the troubleshooting guide?
Expected result
Successful initialisation.
Actual result
Unsuccessful initialisation.
Environment
SYSTEM INFO:
Obsidian version: v1.10.6
Installer version: v1.10.3
Operating system: Darwin Kernel Version 24.6.0: Wed Oct 15 21:08:19 PDT 2025; root:xnu-11417.140.69.703.14~1/RELEASE_ARM64_T8103 24.6.0
Login status: not logged in
Language: en
Insider build toggle: off
Live preview: on
Base theme: adapt to system
Community theme: Minimal v8.0.4
Snippets enabled: 0
Restricted mode: off
Plugins installed: 1
Plugins enabled: 1
1: Minimal Theme Settings v8.1.1
RECOMMENDATIONS:
Custom theme and snippets: for cosmetic issues, please first try updating your theme and disabling your snippets. If still not fixed, please try to make the issue happen in the Sandbox Vault or disable community theme and snippets.
Community plugins: for bugs, please first try updating all your plugins to latest. If still not fixed, please try to make the issue happen in the Sandbox Vault or disable community plugins.
Additional information
The system is in lockdown mode.
“Show all files” setting is off.
I was unable to reproduce with the sandbox vault, but that vault is tiny compared to my working vault. There are almost 8,000 markdown files and according to `fd -t f --exclude “.md" --exclude ".mdown” | wc -l` about 90,000 non-markdown files.