Obsidian File History & Recovery When to Use This Skill | Use this skill when... | Use the alternative instead when... | |---|---| | Recovering an overwritten or accidentally deleted note | Editing a current note — use | | Diffing what changed between two versions of a note | Searching the current vault state — use | | Auditing the history of a single file before a destructive edit | Restoring a deleted file from disk-level backups — use OS tools | Obsidian keeps two parallel version stores: - File Recovery — local snapshots, configurable in Settings → File Recovery ( ). - Sync history — serv…