Failed to initialize copilot database. some features may be limited obsidian

[Scofarry]

Hello, everyone!

I am having a problem with Copilot, where it cannot index notes for consultation. The AI chat plugin works well, but the note reading function gives me the error "error indexing file" and when I try to refresh the vault index, I receive the following error: "failed to initialize copilot database. Some features may be limited Obsidian."

[logancyang]

What device is this? Can you check the dev console for error messages.

[Scofarry]

Hello, the device is running Windows 11, Obsidian version: 1.8.9. I am attaching the log file (TXT) for analysis.

I was able to use a local AI through LLM Studio, where it only created the index after adding a Gemini API. Once the index was created, I was able to use the local AI. However, as soon as I removed the Gemini API, the error reappeared when trying to index with the local AI.

obsidian.md-1742437198273.log

[kentskyo]

same error... Windows 11, Obsidian 1.9.14, CoPilot 3.03

plugin:copilot:335 Database not initialized. Some features may be limited.
plugin:copilot:1732 Failed to fetch relevant notes: Error: Database is not loaded. Please restart the plugin.
at t.getDb (plugin:copilot:543:4796)
at async o (plugin:copilot:1732:8838)
plugin:copilot:335 Database not initialized. Some features may be limited.
plugin:copilot:1732 Failed to fetch relevant notes: Error: Database is not loaded. Please restart the plugin.
at t.getDb (plugin:copilot:543:4796)
at async o (plugin:copilot:1732:8838)

[ichts]

Hi, can you try:

1. force reindexing the vault
2. if the issue persists, delete your index file in /{your vault}/.obsidian/copilot-index-xxx.json

[guayo]

Deleting the index file fixed the issue, thank you!

[kentskyo]

When I try 1: force reindexing I get: "Lexical Search Builds Index on Demand" and it doesn't reindex
When I delete the /copilot-index-chunks...

Database not initialized. Some features may be limited.
plugin:copilot:1800 Failed to fetch relevant notes: Error: Database is not loaded. Please restart the plugin.
    at t.getDb (plugin:copilot:544:4796)
    at runNextTicks (node:internal/process/task_queues:60:5)
    at process.processImmediate (node:internal/timers:449:9)
    at async o (plugin:copilot:1800:5441)
plugin:copilot:544 Error indexing file freeverse/Today.md: Error: Semantic index database not found.
    at t.removeDocs (plugin:copilot:336:138037)
    at Uge.reindexFile (plugin:copilot:544:1594)
    at async t.reindexFile (plugin:copilot:544:492

And it is not recreating the copilot-index files...

I have close to 7000 notes, perhaps this is a boundary issue?

[the-cyber-specialist]

@kentskyo I just suffered through the exact same issue, I spent quite a while troubleshooting and found the solution:

1. Go to Copilot Settings
2. QA tab
3. Ensure the selected Embedding Model is correct
4. Click to activate Enable Semantic Search

As soon as I did that last step things started indexing, if they don't, then try running the command Copilot: Force reindex vault again

Hope this works for you as it did for me.

[kentskyo]

Thanks, that seems to have resolved it!