search

mfarragher / obsidiantools

Obsidian tools - a Python package for analysing an Obsidian.md vault
Other
402 stars 28 forks source link

UnicodeDecodeError doesn't provide file details #32

Open jwhco opened 1 year ago

jwhco commented 1 year ago

While using vault = otools.Vault(obsidian_vault).connect().gather() to connect to my vault, it runs then gives a UnicodeDecodeError. I like how it provides errors about YAML header problems, but this one is hard to debug. 

UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xff in position 90: invalid start byte

There isn't enough information in the error to know where the file loading failed. Is there a DEBUG flag or way to include the filename in error?

jwhco commented 1 year ago

Another way this could work better is by allowing me to load a sample of my Obsidian vault. Perhaps a .gather(top=1000) would help with troubleshooting. I could also write the rest of my code before waiting 10 minutes for an error. I've got 23k notes in my vault.

jwhco commented 1 year ago

Here's my version output:

Name: obsidiantools
Version: 0.10.0

I'm trying to attach to an Obsidian Vault, but I use the attache as an integrity check. I assume this UTF-8 error is a problem in my vault.

A test vault of documentation works fine. Any other ideas to troubleshoot?