When opening obsidian, the program suggested creating a new storage

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What I’m trying to do

!When opening Obsidian, the program prompted me to create a new vault, even though I’ve been using the old one for a couple of years. The old vault, with all its folders and notes, is displayed, but it won’t open. I can only access the new vault, but there aren’t any folders or notes. Switching between vaults in the bottom left doesn’t work. The vault folder contains all the folders with notes. How can I get my main vault back?

Things I have tried

Switch between storages, create a new storage. I didn’t find a solution in the help docs.

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To get it out of the way and for folks to help: what OS are you using here? iOS? Android?

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Windows

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My native language is not English, so I will communicate through a translator. I apologize in advance for any misunderstanding.

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Have you tried the Open Folder as Vault option on the obsidian starting page?

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Yes, I tried. It doesn’t open. When I click it, nothing happens.

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Just to make sure: when you click this option, a dialog window should open where you can choose any folder as a vault. Is that already not working? Or can you not select that specific folder?

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Now I understand your question. I can open this dialog box and select the storage folder. When I select it, the dialog box closes, but the old folders don’t appear.

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Right now, if I understand you correctly, I can think of three possibilities:

  • Obsidian isn’t working properly
  • Obsidian doesn’t have permission to access this folder
  • Something is wrong with the vault folder

I would try reinstalling Obsidian to see if that solves the issue.

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I’ll try. Thank you.

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It worked! Thank you very much!!!

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