How to count the placeholder links

[holroy]

Ehh… I might have overthinked this one. Are you talking about unresolved file links? That is a different story, yes.

The simple count is:

Unresolved link count: `$= Object.keys(dv.app.metadataCache.unresolvedLinks).length `

This utilises an inline dataviewjs query, which you might need to turn on in the settings.

Here is a post to view some information related to unresolved links:

Find all non-existant notes and the note they're mentioned in

Here is another version which produces lots of links to both the unresolved files for creation purposes, and to the origins for cleanup purposes. [image] ```dataviewjs const basedata = Object.entries(dv.app.metadataCache.unresolvedLinks) .filter(([origin, unresolved]) => Object.keys(unresolved).length) // Build dictionary (or set) with key on the new file let unresolvedDict = {} for (let [origin, unresolvedList] of basedata) { for (let newFile in unresolvedList) { …