@pmbauer In my case it wasn’t just a visual artifact. I opened the file in VSCode to confirm that the contents were actually modified.
This is a tough one to reproduce for sure. On Discord @Licat said it was probably a 3rd party plugin but I have only what I consider to be a pretty widely-used set installed now after the last data loss scare, so I’m not sure. Here’s what I’m running:
- Advanced Tables
- Footnote
- Hotkeys for starred files
- Recent files
- Show current note in window title
- Show whitespace
- Templater
My latest theory is that this is happening because of some outside (or perceived outside) process modifying the files while it’s being edited. I have seen this type of popup appearing lately and pretty sure I did see it the last time this happened:
I never edit my notes in 2 editors at the same time, so I’m not sure what is causing these popups to appear. I store my vault on iCloud Drive so that’s the only thing I can think of—somehow macOS could be doing this. Maybe adjusting timestamps or adding some metadata??
In any case, is there a way to tell Obsidian to be more conservative about auto-merging these changes? (separate question here)
How about a prompt, or better yet an option to disable this behavior? This is how Sublime does it for example:
