Obsidian freezing after scanning vault

[TempDR4169]

Obsidian window becomes unresponsive after clicking the Scan Vault button on the side bar. Notifications appea but do not disappear.

[yonggithub]

same to me

[TempDR4169]

I found a fix. The issue happens due to when images are pasted alongside text causing all of the image data to be pasted as data:image therefore when syncing the program has to scan through all of the data causing the program to freeze because of the amount of data it has to scan through

[Solarrixs]

This also occurs if you have Excalidraw files. What I do is just bring them out of the Obsidian vault, sync, and then bring them back in.

[lsolesen]

Excalidraw by @zsviczian files also have these open issues #350 #439.

@Solarrixs For Excalidraw see a workaround here: #439

[niposch]

related for excalidraw files #288 and #289

[zsviczian]

You may want to try turning on compression of Excalidraw files in plugin settings. I originally built the compression for avoiding Excalidraw JSON from turning up in Obsidian Search, but I can imagine that it may be able to help with Anki indexing as well.

Additionally I wonder if Anki offers filtering based on frontmatter properties or tags. That could be used to influence indexing.

In addition anki could use the ExcalidrawAutomate.isExcalidrawFile(file:TFile) function to filter out Excalidraw files. Just add "obsidian-excalidraw-plugin": "1.9.14" to dev dependencies and use the getEA() function.