"Vault limit exceeded"

[martinellison]

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Obsidian is giving me errors “Vault limit exceeded” on the console.

I have a standard sync plan and vault is about 50MB. None of the files are over 5MB.

Can anyone help?

[dawni]

See if this helps: Account messages - Vault limit exceeded - Obsidian Help

[martinellison]

Thanks the info.

I have removed some notes and rebooted the PC and Sync now says my vault is using 960MB out of 1GB, and the ‘limit exceeded’ messages are no longer appearing. du -sh on the vault now says only 48MB though.

[ariehen]

The extra ~900MB may be coming from version history.

Have a look at this topic and the linked FR from WhiteNoise:

Add any assistance to make vault purges less troublesome

Use case or problem I’m not sure if this is a bug, but it seems to be intended behavior (same as the post “Constantly having to purge synced vault?” by someone else on the Reddit) My Obsidian vault is only about 18 MB disc space but Sync reaches the 1 GB cap about once a week—I assume due to edit history, because I edit multiple notes daily. I don’t even care about the edit history, but whenever this happens it’s a very frustrating experience because no error even appears—I only notice when I …