Why help is always opened in dark mode?

[dsent]

Hi everyone! Trying to use Obsidian, and I’m a light side person. Everything is customized to my liking in my personal vault, but when I click the help button, the documentation always opens in dark mode. I can change it in the settings, but they are not saved, and next time help opens in dark mode again.

[ajparkme]

I’m pretty sure that is because the “help vault” is always cleared down first on opening it, to make sure that outdated versions of help don’t hang around. I assume this also means the custom css file, which is also part of any new vault. This was a feature announced here:

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[ryanjamurphy]

@ajparkme is correct. Feel free to open a #feature-requests for a preference for this (though I’m not quite sure how to implement such a preference, since the whole directory is deliberately reset…!).