My memory is hazy (nor am I inclined to try and wreck my brain for any good cue words with which to search the forum now) on whether anybody using iCloud has found a way to force iCloud files to be available for Obsidian (I seem to remember some talk of it).
I imagine a Siri Shortcut using A-Shell commands could work whereby one – after pickFolder-ing and jump-ing the Obsidian vault folder under iCloud – would use a copy command to copy the full vault anywhere (the copied folder could be deleted straight after with another A-Shell command) on the file system – as a way to make available any offloaded files – then using a final command to open Obsidian.
A variation would be to completely move the full vault temporarily to the onMyIPhone/iPad Obsidian sandbox slot, open vault in Obsidian after a delay (wait command), then after work is done use another command to move all files back to iCloud, but I see this too drastic and could potentially see issues with iCloud not getting on top of itself with thousands of small files.
- I only mentioned this second method to show the scope of what kind of things are possible.
Some help with how to do some of this can be found here (this was under my old username):
The pickFolder and jump commands are to be used in A-Shell’s terminal first.
No jailbreaking of device is necessary.