Hi @WhiteNoise , confirming that Restricted Mode is on and the problem has started happening.
Bases not updating to show new / edited content. Settings → Files and links → Rebuild is not doing anything.
Try to move the the 4 big files out of your vault and restart obsidian. See if it helps.
Okay, I’ve done this, I’ll post if the issue presents again.
- Yes.
- Also on iPhone. Haven’t noticed it on Mac (tho I use that less than mobile).
- Yes. I’d guess this doesn’t only happen to files of that size but can’t say for sure. I’ll keep an eye out.
I see the suggestion about removing larger files and will try it after I figure out how to find them all.
I know you don’t use DV, but it’d be easy using that:
```dataview
TABLE round(file.size / 1024) as "File Size (kb)"
SORT file.size desc
LIMIT 500
```
Not sure if there is a utility on Mac such as voidtools Everything in Windows, where you can sort by size for all files easily.
Thanks! I don’t mind using DV temporarily; but your post jogged my brain and I ended up doing it in Files. It turns out I have about 70 .md files >50KB, so I’ll wait to hear how AFewMistakesAgo’s removal goes before taking the trouble myself. (Most of the files are yearly or quarterly logs or “version files” containing multiple versions of a text.)
FWIW, this could be achieved with a base too 
…
With a filter stating something like: file.size >= 50000
Edit: On Mac, Finder should be able to sort files by file size
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For the record, at my end I used a file manager called ‘Directory Opus’ on Windows 11 to flatten the file structure of my vault and then sort by file size for files which end with ‘*.md’.
Hi @WhiteNoise , the problem is happening again, without any MD files in my vault larger than 50KB.
I am experiencing the issue again, even though I now have no .md files over 50KB in my vault. I would save yourself from removing your 70 files unless we get further guidance from WhiteNoise.
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Out of curiosity, will this thread auto-close if no one posts to it for a few days? Is this on a Bug Log somewhere?
It appears this topic was originally created in Bug reports and topics here don’t automatically close. It’s been marked as #tracked, so it’s on the radar and being looked into.
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7 posts were split to a new topic: Metadata Edit YAML / Properties update
It turns out I did report it, a couple of months earlier.
I took another try at the title of this thread, adding in some of the symptoms (was “Content ‘awareness’ lag (stuck cache?) on iOS / iPadOS”).
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It’s probably not necessary to include it in the title, but I originally noticed this with Dataview results also not showing recent changes or additions that should have been in the results.
Also, I think @gooseleggs is reporting a similar experience in one of the desktop flavours.
Yeah, I left DataView out of the title because it’s a community plugin and Bases is similar enough. And I left the OS out because of the desktop mention.
Actually, it’s very early days, but my issue might have been fixed by an upgrade from iPadOS 18 to 26.2.
I haven’t seen symptoms of the problem since I upgraded - and while it’s only been about 36 hours since I did, compared to the fact that I had to restart Obsidian 10 to 15 times a day previously, that 36 hours feels significant. I’ll keep you posted.
Hmm, I’ve definitely encountered my problem on iOS 26; not sure if specifically on 26.2.
I can now also confirm that the issue is still present on iPadOS 26.2. 