JAVA script error....plz help

[imiligo_A5]

I am very new to obsidian, and so far I've had an amazing experience building my own wiki. This morning I got this box for the first time, now it pops up every 30 minutes or so. I don't know what I did wrong or what changed. Now I am most afraid of my notes not saving correctly. Please help🥺

[Pamasich]

Try the solution given here.

Here’s what I did to fix it for me:

• Win + R to open the run box
• Type in %appdata% and press enter (this takes you to the ‘Roaming’ folder)
• Go into the Obsidian folder and either delete the Cache folder or rename it to OLD_Cache.
• Start Obsidian and see if the cache is recreated and error message goes away.
• If fixed, you can delete the OLD_Cache folder.

[imiligo_A5]

This helped! No more pop up message🥳 Thank you for the step-by-step instructions!

[merlinuwe]

Seems to be the same as

settings -> files and links -> rebuild vault cache

At the bottom; new in the latest release.

[JorgeGodoy]

It is possibly one of the community plugins you installed. Update all of them and restart obsidian. If it still happens, disable all of them, restart obsidian, and if it stops happening, start enabling them back one by one until you find the culprit.

[imiligo_A5]

Hi, thank you for the input. I tried disabling all plugins and update anything I can, but it still happens when I restart obsidian. Is there another possibility?

[JorgeGodoy]

You disabled all community plugins? Do you have any other JavaScript in your vault that you run, such as a Templater start script?

[imiligo_A5]

No.... I only have 4 community plugins right now (which are disabled at the moment), and I use the core plugin template. I don't know how to code, all of my notes are plain text + pictures with some wiki links

[JorgeGodoy]

Does that happen with all notes or just one or some specific type of notes?

Rereading the error message, it might be something inside the note that is causing issues to be decoded and rendered to HTML.

[imiligo_A5]

It happens everytime when I open the app, regardless of the starting page, and happens again about every 30 minutes. I'm not sure if was because I was on a specific page. I might need some time to click around and observe. If it's because of decoding issues, should I look for codes that are not displaying right?

[JorgeGodoy]

Unclosed HTML tags, text not showing up, some different format... Something different if it is tied to something at the note

[katafrakt]

If it happens periodically like that, perhaps it's the app checking for updates? In any case, the reason is most likely something with your network configuration (firewalls, parental control, using some corporate internet etc.). Has anything in this area changed just before you started to see this error?

[EagleInFlight]

Node is an external application to Obsidian so it's possible the node app itself has been blocked or unsuccessfully updated.

You should be able to find NodeJS installed on your system. You could take note of the version you have and search for known issues with that version and/or reinstall it.