Bug report: Dataview says file has no Obsidian metadata, but it does

Author: RyotaUshioCreated Sep 16, 2023Updated Aug 17, 2026
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What happened?

An error saying "Cannot index file, since it has no Obsidian file metadata." is thrown, but the metadata does exist.

https://github.com/blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview/assets/72342591/162a4957-1c93-42f0-8e9e-d3e5cc3e018d

This error keeps being thrown even when there's no active MarkdownView, so I assume it has nothing to do with a particular query.

DQL

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JS

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Dataview Version

0.5.58

Obsidian Version

1.4.13

OS

MacOS

Source: blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview