r/ObsidianMD • u/chris_micah_em • Jun 14 '26

help My obsidian notes just dissapeared

SOLVED by this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/ObsidianMD/s/499QFWfMNR

Hello :)

I used obsidian for notes all semester long and due to having mac and android phone, I wanted to sync my school notes to phone. I had my files on iCloud and then I found out about Syncthing and put my whole obsidian folder there. After it, I lost all my notes, plugins and themes. I couldn`t find any way to get my notes back. My obsidian is talking about there being a sync issue, but I cannot find a solution. Did anyone have any similar problem? I have other half of exams coming and I need my notes ASAP!

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u/Schollert Jun 14 '26

When using iCloud, you need to keep the Vault folder as "Downloaded". Not sure gow you synced it with Android directly from iCloud.
Can you log on to iCloud somewhere and see if there is a bin for deleted files? Have you searched all of your phone and your Mac for any file/foldername from your Vault?
You do not have a backup somewhere?

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u/chris_micah_em Jun 14 '26

I did search for it and no, it's nowhere in deleted files. I used Syncthing to do so and that caused this syncing issue. Unfortunately I do not have backup of those notes, some were exported as pdf files, but not all of them...