Icons keep getting deleted (on restart)

[melMass]

Describe the bug Every time I restart obsidian it wipes most but not all the icons in .obsidian/icons. Kind of related but custom icon packs have a similar issue where the icon file is only copied on first use of the icon. So if I only use one icon from a custom pack and restart obs, only that icon is kept in the custom pack (length == 1)... For non custom packs it doesn't seem to follow the same behaviour as it also wipes ones being used.

Additional context Tell me what you need, not sure what could help debug it, but browsing the issues it seems to happen to a few others (#318 #313 #224)

Edit: I mostly use git as my sync mechanism (backed up on a few cloud providers too)

[byjokese]

The same happens to me, even the plugin options disappear, it installed and on the config files appears, but no options and no icons. Is getting hard to manually add all icons again and again and again.

EDIT: Not sure if is related, but may be some incompatibility with the make.md plugin? The second I uninstalled make.md it worked again, and as I had git as backup, I could recover .obsidian\plugins\obsidian-icon-folder\data.json, with all the previous icons.

EDIT 2: Even though I'm not losing all icons, I'm still losing some as @melMass says, without restarting the application, just by typing, there's a moment it just disappears, and in git I can see that the line defining the icon is deleted. On git, I can also see that some icons for no reason get deleted...

[Detluff]

Yes, there is definitely an incompatibility with makemd. I also lost icons after installing makemd, I moved the folder with icons again, tried to add by folder name, but it says that this folder already exists. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling Iconize, but after that I was unable to access the plugin settings (lol).

[byjokese]

Exactly, but even with that incompatibility, something else is wrong, because after uninstalling make.md it still does remove and loses icons after git synchronization or other process.

[simonfossom]

I have the same problem. It's not other plugins. I tested on clean vault.

[FlorianWoelki]

Custom icon packs are work in progress (so it's not done and not 100% functional). Syncing shouldn't be a problem because you have multiple options to prevent syncing issues for icons which are applied to files/folder (e.g., background check).

Furthermore, it is not really optimal to sync with git because the files for the icon packs can be really huge. I think there is not much that I can do, so I'll close this issue for now.

[melMass]

@FlorianWoelki sorry but how is icon deleting themselves on their own not considered a bug?

[FlorianWoelki]

@FlorianWoelki sorry but how is icon deleting themselves on their own not considered a bug?

Well, the issue is not with the plugin itself, but more like with the overall files you download and apply. I cannot limit any of these. I did my very best to fix this issue with background checks (which you can enable) and so on.

[byjokese]

@FlorianWoelki What do you refer with overall files you download and apply?, just to understand the issue. @simonfossom did report that this happens with a clean vault.

[simonfossom]

how i understand plugin works is that if user adds an icon in the plugin settings, it gets registered and added to the folder. what now happens is that registered icons get deleted from icons folder and deregisted. so to solve the issue icons shouod not be deleted.

that being said, it might be that I do not now something about how the plugin works.

[FlorianWoelki]

The icons are extracted from a zip file which is the icon pack. This file will then be saved in your Vault. Iconize never removes any icons automatically.

[simonfossom]

This is odd. Zip files disappear soon after adding icon pack and icons that I add (not from the repo) never get zipped.

Here's a proposal, but you're the best person to judge if it would make sense.

• All icons should be zipped.
• Each zip in icons folder is icon pack
• Packs can be added from repo or added manually

This would mean that you could remove add icon and add iconpack functionalities and just add open folder and instructions.

Do you think this could be possible solution? And why?

[byjokese]

I don't care about icons deleting as long as they get downloaded again, the main problem is losing the icon associated with each file and folder. It is not usable at all if each time you edit a file, the association gets lost.

[melMass]

I think Florian cannot reproduce our bug from what I understand but I have the same issue, not sure if there are logs that could help

[FlorianWoelki]

I think Florian cannot reproduce our bug from what I understand but I have the same issue, not sure if there are logs that could help

Exactly, I cannot reproduce it at all. However, you can still enable the background check in the settings. This will always check if all the icons are correctly downloaded.

[byjokese]

Yes, I got that enabled, but I'm losing the data from .obsidian\plugins\obsidian-icon-folder\data.json.

Open Obsidian, type something on a note:

• Icon gets deleted.
• Icon gets de-associated with the file on the data.json

The only other plugin also enabled is obsidian git. Trying to find the exact reason that happens with an new vault and similar conditions

[FlorianWoelki]

Yes, I got that enabled, but I'm losing the data from .obsidian\plugins\obsidian-icon-folder\data.json.

Open Obsidian, type something on a note:

• Icon gets deleted.
• Icon gets de-associated with the file on the data.json

The only other plugin also enabled is obsidian git. Trying to find the exact reason that happens with an new vault and similar conditions

So it's not related to files/folders? It's only related to icons in notes? If so, this is not implemented yet. I've created a separate issue for that #344

[melMass]

So it's not related to files/folders?

You are right I did not notice that!! It's only affecting in-note icons. I'll keep an eye on #344 then thanks

[FlorianWoelki]

So it's not related to files/folders?

You are right I did not notice that!! It's only affecting in-note icons. I'll keep an eye on #344 then thanks

I'll try to implement that as soon as I can. Thank you for your support and patience!

[byjokese]

Im refering to those icons in the File menu, but after some test, its the "iconInFrontmatterEnabled" setting that removes the icon from the file browser.

If that setting is enabled, as soon as I type something, the file icon gets removed.

EDIT: as it should, my bad. It is overridden by the property, as it should be, sorry for that.