This is part of the reason that I’m hesitant about moving my notes into Obsidian. In the time that I wasn’t using the app, it had unloaded my settings.
@mandaris it's ok - you don’t actually move your notes into obsidian - they remain in your file structure and are fully accessible by any other app ... the synch is simply the obsidian interface making sure it has everything accounted for. (At least that is my (probably) over simplistic explanation for that prompt.)