Startup Time Help

Help
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What I’m trying to do

Improve startup time on Windows. It’s taking over 46 seconds. Here’s how mine looks:

Obsidian start-up time breakdown

Obsidian version: v1.8.4
Installer version: v1.8.4
Operating system: Windows 11 Enterprise 10.0.26100

  • Total startup time: 46,571ms
  • Initialization: 276ms
  • Vault (417 files): 16,494ms
  • Workspace (8 tabs, 5 deferred): 18,927ms
  • Core plugins: 1,836ms
  • Community plugins (8 active): 9,038ms
    • Tasks (v7.15.1): 2,440ms
    • Minimal Theme Settings (v8.1.1): 543ms
    • Style Settings (v1.0.9): 361ms
    • Highlightr (v1.2.2): 221ms
    • List Callouts (v1.2.9): 188ms
    • Templater (v2.9.3): 186ms
    • Paste As Html (v1.0.2): 77ms
    • Copy as HTML (v1.1.3): 75ms

Things I have tried

I have removed plugins I don’t use and disabled lots of custom css things on my theme (Encore)

2

Yeah, Obsidian should load much faster.
Have you tried to open a new vault to see if loading times are different/faster?

Make sure to update your theme under settings>appearance; recently Obsidian changed a lot IMO and this will break older, unmaintained themes.

Also, check always how old (latest update) your plugins are; both old themes/CSS snippets and plugins can cause errors and slowdowns.

Bad configurations, like poorly written dataview queries can cause slow performance or older obsidian plugins, like text expanders or search engines. But you seem to not have this kind of plugins installed.

3

Everything takes too long on such a small vault. Especially:

Vault (417 files): 16,494ms
Workspace (8 tabs, 5 deferred): 18,927ms

I don’t actually know what deferred tabs mean…?
I would try and rename workspace.json in .obsidian vault config folder to workspace.json.bak (with Obsidian closed) and see what happens.

Additionally, a fresh Windows opening of Obsidian on startup may be thwarted by Windows Defender’s malware checks. But I don’t think such hindrance would occur because of that.

Also, install the latest 1.8.7 version from here:

4

I experience the same in 1.8.7. Even opening the Sandbox vault

Obsidian start-up time breakdown

Obsidian version: v1.8.7
Installer version: v1.8.7
Operating system: Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26100

- Total startup time: 1,936,820ms
- Initialization: 339ms
- Vault (31 files): 49,290ms
- Workspace (8 tabs, 0 deferred): 738ms
- Core plugins: 1,886,453ms
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Some fix is promised in 1.8.8: