I use Obsidian in both my PC and Android phone syncing the files in my OneDrive cloud, and I have started using Bases but ran into this one issue. Some of the properties in my PC are words starting with a capital letter–as in, e.g. Status–even though I have them all in small caps. In my phone, they are in small caps, as in e.g. status.
In my PC, in Bases, say when I sort it, it will be to Status, and when synced in my phone, it does not read Status, and I will have to change it to status. But then synced, and back to my PC, it will not work on status, and I have to change it back to Status, and round and round I will go in changing it.
What can I do to fix it? To change all the caps Words in PC to small caps words.
Thought I’d update it here. I’ve already checked through my whole vault and confirmed everything is lowercase now (no Status: or Status:: sneaking around anywhere). I even tried the workspace.json reset, went hunting in AppData for any Bases cache files, and… nothing. Still the ghost Status keeps showing up on desktop, while mobile only wants status.
Since no replies came through yet, I’ve gone ahead and emailed Obsidian support directly. Hopefully they can shed some light. I’ll share back here if I hear anything useful, in case someone else runs into the same loop.
If all’s well, it should disappear from the list. If it remains, you might have to do renaming chicanery:
Make sure you have a current back-up of your vault.
Try right-click renaming the uppercase version to something all lowercase, e.g., “bad-tag”.
If it accepts the new name, and if the lowercase version still shows the same number of instances, then right-click “bad-tag” and unassign its type. It should disappear from the list.
But if it won’t accept a rename, then…
In the Properties view, find the lowercase version of your property, right click, select Rename, and rename it to whatever, e.g., “good-tag”.
Now try unassigning the uppercase tag. If it disappears from the list, yay…
Rename “good-tag” back to its all-lowercase tag name.
But if unassigning in step 4 still doesn’t work, do you happen to be using the uppercase version in a canvas somewhere? (I ask because you didn’t mention canvases in your troubleshooting list.) Remember to delete that property too.
Thanks! In my Show All Properties, it is the other way round
There is no “type” even though in all my files it is “type”.
There is only “Type” with 2712 entries.
Ah… I have renamed it, let’s see if this will solve my problem.
Thanks SO much!
But it does not work though… I changed it to small caps - it changes and then reverts back to the capital
I even tried different ways of changing - still reverts to the capital
I change the Property all back to Type in the md files using Notepad++
Then use the Properties to rename them back to type
But it will then still change back to Type in the All Properties listing while remains type in the md files.
If you go to your config folder, for example if it’s .obsidian, then you see a types.json file which contains all your properties with what type of values that prop is set to.
That file will be updated by Obsidian when you make changes.
If this action is overriden by anything, then it must be OneDrive, in which case I’d try to use Obsidian (at least temporarily or in a test vault) without OneDrive to see if that fixes your problem.
I think you are not the only one this is happening to so maybe have a look on the forum.
Hi @purplelily ,
I encountered the same issue as you.
I resolved it by doing 2 steps:
I adjusted property in types.json file
I adjusted all md files of my vault by Notepad++. And here was the hidden root cause: Please let Notepad++ adjust also your md files in .trash folder and .stversions folder
I was delayed and just checked this now - thank you sooooo much. I think it is OK now. I did try to search in the forum but could not find it. And again thanks so much!
Thanks! Good to know that I am not alone. Thankfully I do not use Base so much in my phone and so it was still ok, and I was delayed and only got to this now, and thank you soooo much. Made the changes, but using Notebook++ is taking tooooo much time (I do have quite a big vault), and so I thought I will get to it only when there is a stray one appearing in the list LOL. Again, thanks so much!!!
