Android does let you choose the vault location, and this one is on shared storage - #86
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…ared storage The section merged in #85 claimed "On the Android tablet you do not choose the location: Obsidian creates the vault in its own storage". Wrong, and now checkable against a real device: the tablet registers /storage/emulated/0/obsidian-work in LiveSync's own device registry (_local/obsydian_livesync_milestone), which is Android SHARED storage, not app-internal. Same class of error as the ~/Notes correction in that same PR — a plan written down as though it were fact — which is why the note about it stays in rather than being quietly dropped. Records the distinction as deliberate, because the two options differ in ways that matter for a notes vault: shared storage survives uninstalling Obsidian and is reachable over USB and by other apps, where app-internal storage is neither. Shared is the better fit for the same reason the whole arrangement exists — the notes should not be trapped inside one application — at the cost of being visible to anything else on the device with storage permission, which is acceptable on a personal tablet and moot given the plaintext lives on the Macs anyway. Also states the one thing that does not follow: the tablet's vault must still not sit in a folder another sync app manages. Two sync systems on one vault loses notes on Android exactly as on macOS. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Correcting a claim I merged in #85 an hour earlier, now that a real tablet exists to check it against.
What was wrong
The tablet registers
/storage/emulated/0/obsidian-workin LiveSync's own device registry (_local/obsydian_livesync_milestoneon the server) — Android shared storage, not app-internal. So the location was chosen, and the doc said it couldn't be.Same class of error as the
~/Notescorrection in that same PR: a plan written down as though it were fact. The note recording that stays in rather than being quietly dropped.Why it's worth more than a one-word fix
The two options have genuinely different risk profiles for a notes vault:
Shared storage is the better fit here for the same reason the whole arrangement exists — the notes shouldn't be trapped inside one application. The cost is visibility to anything else on the device with storage permission, which is acceptable on a personal tablet and largely moot given the plaintext lives on the Macs regardless.
Also states the thing that does not follow: the tablet's vault still must not sit in a folder another sync app manages. Two sync systems on one vault loses notes on Android exactly as on macOS.
Verification
The cited path was re-read from the live milestone document while writing this, not recalled — both device entries confirmed, and the shared-storage claim checked programmatically rather than by eye.
Docs only.
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