Obsidian Hell: Fooling with Plugins
I just wanted to get the Lineage plugin working, and I broke Obsidian.
This last week, I wound up in Obsidian hell. I wanted to figure out why the Lineage plugin wasn't working, so I installed the divide and conquer plugin, which is designed to make searching for plugin conflicts easier. Instead, I somehow enabled all the installed plugins in my vault, and after that, Obsidian wouldn't successfully load.
The final solution was to rename the invisible plugins JSON file (community-plugins.json) to some other name, forcing Obsidian to create a new JSON file with all the plugins disabled. Which — for unknown reasons — Obsidian doesn’t offer as a command.
But the exploit worked, thank all the little gods. I then enabled the handful I actually use.
Took hours. I have never isolated the cause of Lineage not working.