Sync: Enable the purge process to also remove old versions of notes and other files

[shefakhoda]

This is a common issue that has been raised many times, by many users, over the years!

Is this something you plan to fix?

Or do affected users need to resign ourselves to a biweekly Vault delete, or else find a different cloud service?

Determine Sync's storage limits by size of local vaults, not by consumed server space

Use case or problem I want to: choose the right subscription plan for Sync and/or prune an existing vault when the limits of a plan are reached. I find it difficult to: understand how the size of a remote vault can be much larger than the size of the local vault identify what to prune, eg delete a complete remote vault or delete a local file or delete a remote file or … identify where to prune, ie locally or remote understand the timing of the pruning process Proposed solution Determine th…

Discrepancy in Vault Size Reporting in Sync Panel - Need Help

Hello Obsidian Community, I hope everyone is doing well. I’ve come across an issue that I’m hoping someone might have insights into. I noticed a discrepancy between the vault size reported in the Obsidian sync panel and the actual size of my local vault. The sync panel shows a size of 6.32GB while my local vault is only 93MB. Could this discrepancy be associated with version history storage, or is there another possible explanation? I’m concerned about potentially reaching the sync limit due t…

Is a reason why it show over limit but my local file only has less than 50MB?

Obsidian Sync told me I reached the size limit, I have only less than 5 images in my vault, and my largest file is only like 4 MB. [Screenshot 2025-05-02 at 18.13.26] [Screenshot 2025-05-02 at 18.13.37] I click purge, somehow it recalculatesthe size, but still occupies like 9.2GB, so it will be filled very soon I imagine. [Screenshot 2025-05-02 at 18.18.15] This happens years ago and I email the customer support, in the end they never find the reason and I need to delete my remote vault …

Removing Images From the Vault Did Not Shrink the Size of Storage Usage in Obsidian Sync

Question Is there a way to shrink the size of the remote vault without completely deleting it. By which I mean removing the images from the remote vault. Any idea would be appreicated! What I have done tldr: Tried to Reduce Storage Usage in Obsidian Sync but Failed [image] I subscribed to Obsidian Sync Standard 2 months ago, and I have used 1/4 of the storage already. I decided to upload all the images to github as they occupied most of the room. However, after removing ~80 images, the amou…

How to delete previous versions stored in sync version control?

Things I have tried I tried to search for “sync delete version history” and variations of that same phrase on this forum which only yielded results about people having problems with stuff accidentally getting deleted. I also tried looking in the .obsidian folder to look for files that might store some information about previous versions of a file, in hope that I could find something to delete. What I’m trying to do I want to delete the previous versions of some documents that have been syn…

https://forum.obsidian.md/t/option-to-disable-version-history-for-large-markdown-files/84265

Enable purging of large markdown files

Handwritten note plugins such as Excalidraw typically produce large markdown (1-10MB) files. For Sync users, Obsidian keeps a version history of those files, filling up the remote vault storage almost instantly, making the Sync feature unusable for handwritten note-takers. Modifying the purge functionality to also purge large markdown files would solve this problem and save space on the server side. Related feature request: