assets directory not added and removed by Flowershow

[ktneely]

I'm trying to add an assets directory under content for hosting author images and other material. The challenge is that I cannot get assets to "stick".

Scenario 1: assets in Obsidian

My first attempt was to create an assets/ directory at the top level of the Obsidian vault as a peer of blog/, people/, etc. Inside the folder was a single image, author.png` to be used in conjunction with a defined person. When updating flowershow with the "publish all notes" function in the plugin, my documents from all the other directories get uploaded, however, it skips the assets folder entirely.

Scenario 2: Adding via git

Since the plugin was not adding the directory and file, I cloned the repo, added the directory and file under content/, and committed. The Vercel build process kicked off and succeeds. However, the image is not used within the blog posts as a part of the author. Furthermore, when I update content and re-publish via Obsidian, it removes the folder and its underlying asset.
Obsidian/Flowershow will remove assets/ whether it is present in the vault or not.

To Reproduce

The following steps should reproduce the issue:

1. Create a new flowershow instance following the online guide
2. Use a new vault for this instance
3. publish the vault
4. add an assets/ folder in Obsidian
5. add an image file to the folder
6. publish
7. check repository under content/ and the assets folder will not be there

Note: I can get the assets/ folder to "stick" if I add a dummy Markdown file under it, however, the images are not pushed.

You can also immediately see that the asset file(s) will be deleted with the flowershow plugin widget. There should be a way to add the assets to the plugin's tracking mechanism.

[rufuspollock]

@ktneely thanks for reporting. Are you using the Obsidian plugin?

[ktneely]

Yes, I am using the Obsidian plugin method. I reviewed a related issue that mentioned symlinking the assets folder, but that doesn't seem to be relevant here, since I'm not referencing the assets as being under the blog/ directory, and assets and blog are at the same level .

[rufuspollock]

@ktneely the assets folder has to be in or symlinked into the public folder usually.

[ktneely]

I don't have an explicit public directory, is that required? My directory tree looks like this (I've cut some content directories out)

.
├── .obsidian/
├── assets/
│   ├── Headshot.png
│   └── assets.md
├── blog/
│   ├── 2024-03-27-Tier-1-Go-Bag.md
│   ├── 2025-01-16-Analysis-Toolkit-Part-2.md
├── people/
│   └── Kevin.md
├── projects/
└── index.md

Should there be a symlink likeblog/assets -> ../assets/ ? I thought I tried that and it didn't work, but now can't quite remember.