Not all files shown in dataview file table

[Moonbase59]

I was just messing around with some obsidian:// URIs in my +Inbox folder when I detected that dataview doesn’t show all the files that Obsidian’s file explorer shows (mostly junk, in this case).

I have an +Inbox TOC file, created with the following dataview code:

table file.ctime, file.mtime
from "+Inbox"
where file.name != "+Inbox TOC"
sort file.mtime descending

and this is the result (note much more files in the file explorer side pane than dataview shows):

There are surely some "junk" files in the +Inbox folder, but shouldn’t dataview show everything that Obsidian’s file explorer shows?

[Moonbase59]

I just found out that apparently dataview doesn’t show empty files!

This should be documented somewhere, please. I actually consider this a feature now, not a bug …

[Moonbase59]

Hmm … or am I assuming?

I just put only the character "x" into one of the empty files, and it got listed. But when removing the "x" again, it still gets listed.

Does dataview use some caching or needs to be refreshed somehow? What might be the cause?

[filmgal]

There is (was?) an issue with refreshing pages in dataview. For now, to refresh immediately, make a slight change to the rules then remove the change. That ought to do the trick. Exiting Obsidian also does the trick. Other than that, things do refresh, I just don't know what the intervals are right now.

[Moonbase59]

Hm. Seems a caching/refreshing problem after all. I had my +Inbox TOC open in preview mode, quit Obsidian, restarted, and it showed 0 results. Then went into edit mode (no changes) and back to preview, and voilà—all files (including a zero-byte "Untitled") were shown.

Btw, editing the dataview code (and back) didn’t make the new file appear. It only showed after the above process.

Kinda makes dataview unreliable somehow, should be found & fixed, I think.

[blacksmithgu]

Looks like I need to track more events than just vault.changed. I've improved indexing by also listening for renames and file creation/deletion, and made views auto-reload every 5 seconds (configurable) - it should fix wierd issues like this.

[blacksmithgu]

Fixed in 0.2.13.

[Moonbase59]

@blacksmithgu Thanks for caring! Installed 0.2.14 today, and the problems seem gone!