"This could take a few minutes" message is stuck and nothing happens

[santiyounger]

Hey,

This plug in has been amazing, for some reson recently I started getting this message and obsidian remains stuck

I do have Anki open with the correct anki connect addon and everything correctly set up. Before this happened everything was working correctly. I did just update obisidian to the latest version, so I fear it might be that.

I waited for almost 10 minutes and nothing happened.

Obsidian just freezes and the only way to make Obsidian unfreeze is to quit and open it again.

What I added

I only made a quick change to a note that was previously working and then after trying to sync, it freezes.

What format I'm using

I'm using the neuracache format with the regex ((?:[^\n][\n]?)+) #flashcard ?\n*((?:\n(?:^.{1,3}$|^.{4}(?<!<!--).*))+) added to The Basic Note Type

Specs:

Obsidian to Anki 3.4.1 Obsidian v0.10.10 Linux Majaro

Thanks for the awesome plugin!

[problemadder]

Obsidian v0.10.10. is the current insider build isnt it? hope that there is no problem in the official release of 10.10. Perhaps downgrading to 10.09 will help you? Is there a page with the previous versions? Couldnt find one. Have a nice evening.

[santiyounger]

Hey thanks! yeah 0.10.10 is the lastest insider build, unfortunatly I don't think there's a page to go back on versions, but I will make sure to test things on the next stable version!

Thanks for the help!

[HousektO]

Hi. I had same problem with obsidian to anki plugin. Having my created new vault, and transferred a few note to new vault, I became able to create new anki cards.

I guess many cards is obstacle for plugin to scan the vault.

[dummifiedme]

Same problem, but with me it just for one regex. Not for all. #213

[zephaniahong]

@santiyounger I'm facing the same issue as you. I created a new vault and things worked for awhile (2 weeks) but now the problem is back. Have you found out the issue/workout? Thank you!

[dummifiedme]

@santiyounger I'm facing the same issue as you. I created a new vault and things worked for awhile (2 weeks) but now the problem is back. Have you found out the issue/workout? Thank you!

Generally, it hangs up when there is a conflict with your card’s regex. For example if same card can be referenced by two regexes. It’s all in the regex, all the errors. I never had a problem once I decided to have 3-4 ways of making cards, and sticking to them. Try to see if there are redundant regexes.

Also, check for for duplicates maybe.

[zephaniahong]

Generally, it hangs up when there is a conflict with your card’s regex. For example if same card can be referenced by two regexes. It’s all in the regex, all the errors. I never had a problem once I decided to have 3-4 ways of making cards, and sticking to them. Try to see if there are redundant regexes.

Also, check for for duplicates maybe.

The odd thing is, I didn't make any changes to my regexes. They were working fine all along then suddenly this error comes about. Also, I only have 2 regex. Any other ideas what could be the issue?

[zephaniahong]

Found out what was causing the hang. It was my Excelidraw folder which had MD files of drawings. The moment I removed them, it worked fine(: Hope this helps whoever might face this issue in the future!

[dummifiedme]

Found out what was causing the hang. It was my Excelidraw folder which had MD files of drawings. The moment I removed them, it worked fine(: Hope this helps whoever might face this issue in the future!

But I had it too, why didn’t it create a problem for me? Lol

[slabzzz]

Anyone here found a fix? I use excalidraw too but I haven't gotten errors when using it. I have a hunch that it's due to me using it on 2 devices, both running git sync.

[MisterPresident]

Having the same problem. I stuck at "tags to be replaced".

[nimskhanal]

Did we find a solution to how Ankiconnect would work in Obsidian again?

[lsolesen]

As the entire Obsidian hangs for me when this happens, do anyone know where to find logs which can explain what happens?

[MisterPresident]

Same for me. Open the Developer Console before syncing to see what happend. I think it's Ctrl+I.

[zsoprano]

The issue lies in the slow scanning of Excalidraw files. To resolve the problem:

1. Go to the settings of the Obsidian_to_Anki plugin.
2. Scroll all the way down to "Ignored File Settings."
3. Specify your folder for exclusion (you can check in Excalidraw settings > Basic > Excalidraw folder).

**/*.excalidraw.md
**/Excalidraw/**