# my obsidian keeps crashing. please hlep me i need to get back to work qiuickly i am in the middle... ## Retrieval Notes - Session id: `ce493886-1fea-4707-85e8-c8270c0edf2b` - Last activity: `2026-03-18T15:09:09.241Z` ## My Notes <!-- Add your notes here. This section is preserved across syncs. --> ## Conversation ### User my obsidian keeps crashing. please hlep me i need to get back to work qiuickly i am in the middle of stuff. fyi, i have been using the agent clienbt plugin extensively. i don't know if that has anything to do with it. situation is: it loads up, gives me some m all of a sudden Obsidian has started crashing to a white screen. You can see it in one of the screenshots. It just started doing this. I have no idea why. I have been using agent client within the vaults with no problems but I was using it at the time it crashed but even now when I've closed both those windows I was still getting crashes. It also talks about the vault being checked if you look in the top right hand corner at those messages as well. So yeah, I don't know what the fuck is going on. I'd really like to get back to work very quickly. Can you help me please? essages in the right hand corner, and then crashes to white. you can see example sof what is going on in the screens shosts. ### Assistant The indexing message points to a specific file: `Conversations/2026-03-17-codex-019cfdd9.md`. That file is likely massive and crashing the indexer. Let me check. ### Assistant There it is. `2026-03-17-codex-019cfdd9.md` is 384MB — that's 300x larger than your next biggest file. Obsidian is choking trying to index it. That's a Codex session export that came out absurdly large (probably contains base64 encoded content or something similar). Move it out of the vault and Obsidian should recover immediately: ### Assistant Done. Moved the 384MB file to `/tmp/`. Restart Obsidian now — it should load fine. That file was a Codex session export from yesterday that came out at 384MB (your next largest conversation file is 1.3MB). Likely the `claude-sessions sync` Stop hook exported a session with embedded binary data or extremely long tool outputs. The file is in `/tmp/` so it won't be deleted immediately, but it will be cleared on next reboot. If you want to keep it longer, let me know and I'll move it to Downloads. We should also look at why that export was so large and add a size guard to the sync script so this doesn't happen again. *Un file da 384 megabyte nella cartella sbagliata può far crollare qualsiasi sistema.* ### User "Done. Moved the 384MB file to /tmp/. Restart Obsidian now — it should load fine." don't put it in there, put it in Google Drive. Make sure it's labeled properly so I can find it again in the future. ### Assistant Moved to Google Drive at `Learning/2026-03-17-codex-session-019cfdd9-oversized-384MB.md`. The filename includes the date, session ID, and the reason it was removed so you'll know what it is if you encounter it later. Go ahead and restart Obsidian — should be back to normal. *Trecentottantaquattro megabyte di conversazione meritano almeno un nome che li spieghi.*