What I’m trying to do I’m trying to develop a workflow to work with a vault that is: Located in a directory that may not be available Is synced via Obsidian Sync My vault is located inside an encrypted mount point, which I need to manually mount. My problem is that Obsidian saves the last opened …

[image] C0redump: The very obvious answer is being extremely disciplined with opening and closing vaults but thats something I am not good at. I wouldn’t expect anyone to be. If you don’t mind always starting in the same vault, you could make a launcher for an Obsidian URI and use that inste…

If I had this problem, I would make a little script that checks if the drive is mounted and if so launches Obsidian, otherwise pops a notification or starts the mount process. Then when I wanted to launch Obsidian I would launch the script instead of doing it directly. Sync settings are stored in a…

Thanks for the suggestion. The thing is I don’t always want to open the “hidden” vault. Most of the time I just work in my other vault. But since I can’t control which vaults get auto-opened I’m kinda back to square one. The very obvious answer is being extremely disciplined with opening and closin…

That’s a very usable workaround. Implemented that for now. I think I’ll write up a feature request for the sync plugin to check if the vault is present before starting the sync.

There’s a slightly-related FR here: [image] Keep vaults in the vault selector when their location is (temporarily) not available Feature requests When I use obsidian with a bitlocker vault on USB, the vault gets removed from the selection screen when (temporary) not avail…

Yeah, similar situation but subtly different. I included it in my FR - thanks for pointing it out. There seem to be a few people who try to use a workflow with vaults in “non-standard” places.

Working with Sync and a "disappearing" vault

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ariehen July 22, 2025, 7:38am 6

There’s a slightly-related FR here: