Hidden files or folders become visible after app restart on iOS

[victor-onofrei]

Plugin Version

1.1.1

Obsidian Version

1.4.3 (95)

Affected Platforms

iOS

Expected Behaviour

Files or folders should stay hidden after application restart

Actual Behaviour

Files or folder become visible after application restart

Steps to Reproduce

1. Hide a file/folder
2. Restart the application

Workaround: Enable and disable “Hidden File Visibility”

[t-schreibs]

This is true on Android as well.

[RedLilith]

Happens on Windows as well

[mtzfox]

This is happening on my Mac as well. Also randomly is hiding my entire vault explorer, then I click unhide, restart Obsidian and everything comes back.

[snattack]

Still an issue on macOS, any ideas on when this can be fixed or what the problem is?

[farline99]

android is in da house

[janbaykara]

I wonder if it's to do with the fact that settings are awaited, then the listener for the file menu is established. This looks like a potential race condition scenario:

https://github.com/Oliver-Akins/file-hider/blob/b9b3e89660fc35382554658b4032a279d5bfc21e/src/main.ts#L22-L25

I could submit a PR for an alternative approach but I'd like some assurance from @Oliver-Akins or another maintainer that they're still maintaining the repo?

[Oliver-Akins]

@janbaykara - Ohhh, interesting possibility. If you want to make a PR I'll review it, but I'll only validate changes on Linux, so any platform-specific stuff I cannot 100% validate. Though since it seems like this is applicable on most platforms the fix would hopefully be a similar situation.

I'll also probably release #30 at the same time, since that didn't feel like a large enough change to make a new release for.

[janbaykara]

Great, I'll put in a PR sometime soon!