+1, because it is essential.
Don’t forget something like undo/redo.
The user should have control about the changes: Which files add/change/delete which property?
Properties Wrangler: Add a way to "Insert", "Rename" and "Remove" properties and values in all files
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Totally +1
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Rename (only) of properties types (not values) will be implemented in v1.5. No ETAs.
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Legit! Thanks Obsidian team 
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@cvanhenten In case it is not on your radar, the update-time-on-edit-obsidian plugin may be helpful for future notes.
It automatically adds the created and updated properties.
The updated properties is updated each time you modify a note in Obsidian.
Is it present in the Catalyst version of v1.5?
@pellucid According to what I can read in v1.5.0 Release Notes, Properties can be renamed and searched globally.
See here for a demo video in the Catalyst
The plugin “Multi Properties” (GitHub - fez-github/obsidian-multi-properties: Plugin for Obsidian that allows user to add properties to multiple notes at once.) is related, allowing for Properties removal.
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To delete a property from all files where it is used, here’s how to do it with VS Code and regex search.
Regex pattern: ^propertyname:.*\n and replace with nothing.
Please note that this is intended to work only for one line properties.
Example for myCoolProperty using VSCode with regex enabled:
To confirm, click the icon inside the red circle in the following screenshot
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Hello everyone, 
I’m so happy to see this feature request 
I think this Properties situation is as important as tags or other binding options, however you call it in database management language. I’m not familiar with coding. I’m using Obsidian as a regular person.
I’m a beginner to Obsidian. As I was playing around with it’s options, I really messed up the file properties and now there are not only nonsensical properties, but also duplicates and non-functional ones…
In addition, the original properties for time and date, for example, are not stamping the current time and date. I know it was stamping before !
Now I have to manually enter the date.
And this is all before I installed any community plugins.
I’m at a loss.
- I searched everywhere on how to reset the original Obsidian properties to get rid of this glitch.
- I also searched everywhere on how to remove the unused and jumbled up properties.
As, I can’t delete and manually reinstall individual file properties, I reinstalled Obsidian. This didn’t help.
So I’m absolutely voting for this proposal here.
To the Obsidian Team: 
Please put a user-friendly option (not a code like whatever solution
) right next to the Properties table (add properties option) to “remove” and then have the ability to “add new” - including the original Obsidian property templates like date and time.
I will be very grateful
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Thanks for this workaround.
+1. This would be super useful. I am finding it a little…unwieldy at the moment while studying, to have to duplicate information in a property, so that I know which ‘Section’ belongs to which ‘Unit’ and so on.
I am probably reaching a point where I need to, ideally, nest properties, and then also bulk rename the content of each property also.
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+1 This request is absolutely necessary to manage our properties!
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I have been monkeying around for a week now trying to clean up corrupted frontmatter with scripts. It’s awful.
Global find according to a regex pattern, and replace with a value or another regex pattern. Done.
There are at least five historical requests for this. It can’t be that hard.
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I know VScode, but I haven’t the faintest idea what you are proposing here.
Me neither. Some mod moved my post to this topic? Now it’s completely out of context it initially was.
In regards to this OP, VScode is not even a viable solution especially when it comes to inserting new tags. Renaming/Removing could be achieved with VScode search & replace though.