Where are the path listed in “Excluded files” stored?

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I cannot find any entries in the app.json.

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Its name is userIgnoreFilters

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That can’t be, or I’m blind. I’m specifying values there with my vault, but in the file it only says

{
“promptDelete”: false,
“alwaysUpdateLinks”: true
}

My problem is that I’d like to explicitly sync the contents of the cache folder (“.obsidian\plugins\text-extractor\cache”), but it currently doesn’t do that.

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The thread you linked to is about excluding from search. You’re talking about excluding from Sync.

I don’t know where that’s stored; maybe someone else can say where.

But excluding plugin folders that already aren’t being synced isn’t going to make Sync sync some other file that also already isn’t being synced.

If you’re trying to sync your plugins’ settings, there are options in Settings > Sync. But if you’re trying to sync plugin files that Sync does not sync, I think you’ll have to use some other syncing method for those files.


(Too many “babies” “syncs”, Baby Sync.)

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Oh really? That only affects the search?

My hope was that with ‘!’ I could explicitly tell it to sync the files there. I’m familiar with the other settings — I’ve already tried them, but it still doesn’t sync the cache. I’m desperate.

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I don’t quite understand it either, because in the community plugin of Text Extractor it explicitly says that it uses the cache to enable search on mobile devices.

“Cache & Sync
The plugin caches the extracted texts as local small .json files inside the plugin directory. Those files can be synced between your devices. Since text extraction does not work on mobile, the plugin will use the synced cached texts if available. If not, an empty string will be returned.”

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That part isn’t compatible with Sync, per the plugin’s developer:

This is a limitation of Obsidian Sync, so not fixable on the plugin’s side.

If you wish to sync cache between devices, 3rd-party solutions will work fine.

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I believe Sync’s settings are stored with Obsidian’s global settings and/or its IndexedDB.

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