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Guy Swann 1y ago

Ever have one of those moments where you had some sort of a regular problem with a piece of software....

- You search it constantly, nobody in the world appears to have this same problem.

- You ignore it, time goes by, you search again. Still nothing.

- You get annoyed and start deleting plug ins, reseting settings, deleting customizations, etc.

- still happening

- ignore it for some more time.

- drives you crazy one day, you delete the app and reinstall. Still happening.

- every update you install and you think maybe... but no, it still happens.

Then one day out of the blue, you are just working on stuff and you see something and it triggers that little tiny 0.5% processing power in the back of your subconscious that's been set to permanently try to figure out what that problem was, and it makes perfect sense, its super simple, and you do a single thing and its completely fixed... ?

I just had one of those moments. 🤣

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Big Sloth 1y ago

What was the bug?

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Guy Swann 1y ago

So, in Obsidian, my notes would randomly be completely empty. I'd be working on my TODO list, or my current episode's project file with all my links and writing. Then i'd go away from the app to find something, come back, and the entire note is completely empty.

I would have to close the note, open something else, close that, then reopen the original. It would often take like 3-5 seconds, but it would usually come back. Sometimes though I'd have to do this multiple times.

I tried SO many things... today however, I realized i've been using iCloud drive to host all my notes so i could work from the same list on every device without having to subscribe to syncing services.

I was just moving stuff in the file system and I saw the little "cloud" icon next to the Obsidian folder, showing that the content wasn't synced to this device — and it hit me, iCloud is auto removing the files after there is a timeout and only when i refresh it did Obsidian "request" the file again and so it would get reloaded.

Opened Obsidian and my TODO list was blank again, a common occurrence. I clicked on the cloud icon in the finder to download the folder locally, and it popped up almost instantly. 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

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Sammytwofingers 1y ago

ghost in the machine

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Rand 1y ago

t-y Guy

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Tom 1y ago

I'm in need of one of those moments right about now

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Rand 1y ago

yes, what was it?

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Guy Swann 1y ago

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Diacone Frost 1y ago

anytime I testart btc and lightning node I search for reasons why it takes so long.

30 minutes ...

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falsefaucet 1y ago

Lots of frustration, followed by immense satisfaction once you realize the issue.

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d34e832d... 1y ago

Audio output set to non-existent device 😆 threw away a working mic

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Guy Swann 1y ago

oh god I'm sorry, lol

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JackTheMimic 1y ago

Don't pull the ladder up after you. Create a video or note describing the problem and how you fixed it. More people give up and live with the buggy software than do what you just did. We need more blogs or videos titled "[My exact problem and fix for this software.]"

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B 1y ago

I love those moments!

And I love how the brain works its magic with background processing.

I’ve always imagined my brain as a huge filing cabinet with drawers opening and closing, files being pulled out and rifled through, added to or resorted.

Nice feeling closing a file 💜