Rename a property value across all notes

[bfc3]

Is there a way to rename a property value across multiple notes?

[Yurcee]

If you search for ‘bulk rename’ or ‘batch rename’ property, you might turn up some older threads.

I found this:

Globally renaming property value?

I want to rename several property values in Obsidian – like because one has a typo or something. I can’t tell if there’s a way to do that, perhaps with a plugin. I found instructions for changing what the property itself is called, but that’s not what I want to edit. For example, I have a property called “category” in a vault for blog posts. There are a limited number of options here because I have a specific set of categories. I want to rename “Cleaning, Decorating, & Hospitality” to “Cleaning…

To be honest, I hardly ever need this and clean forgot how to do this with Linter or other plugins (I remember these faintly: Multi Properties and File Cooker…?)…

• If you search with my name for these, you can find something, I believe.

So I think these bulk operations, when such simple cases arise, are best done outside of Obsidian with an editor of one’s choice on their given operating system (VSCode Editor or other).

[bfc3]

It would be really nice if Obsidian had a native way of handling things like these!

[ariehen]

I think this is the main FR, give it a

Properties Wrangler: Add a way to "Insert", "Rename" and "Remove" properties and values in all files

Use case or problem The new Properties feature is fantastic. Now that it's here, ideas are flowing. One idea could help those of us who seem often to "refactor" notes by changing metadata, etc. There is some sweet new functionality already with the new Properties feature, but the ability to edit all files in the vault with some commands would be awesome, similar to Tag Wrangler. Currently it is a manual job to rename or remove properties, and this takes a lot of time even in modestly sized vaul…

[Yurcee]

With Bases updates in the pipeline, this would surely be one of the features needed in the mix.
I wonder though if mass replacing potentially (tens of) thousands of values would cause any problems in internal index not catching up…?

Obsidian devs do not seem too keen on letting users do mass replacements: a global search and replace FR has been ignored for a long time (4 years)?

[liam]

You can rename a property from within the All Properties pane (make sure the core plugin Properties view is enabled). From there, right-click on the property you want to rename and select “Rename…”

[Yurcee]

Are we talking about property fields or property values here…?

[ariehen]

Hey gino_m .

I think Liam is talking about the properties themselves and not their values.

[Yurcee]

It is about values in the title of the post.

[bfc3]

@Yurcee

Are we talking about property fields or property values here…?

I was asking about property values, not the name of the property itself.

[Yurcee]

Then I’m gonna go ahead and “like” the post three others did.

[cocobanana82]

The program I wrote does exactly that and a bit more.

Obsidian Frontmatter Tool – Desktop GUI for Batch Editing & Validation

Title: Obsidian Frontmatter Tool – Desktop GUI for Batch Editing & Validation Hello everyone, I’d like to share a standalone desktop utility built with PySide6: Obsidian Frontmatter Tool – a modular, cyberpunk-themed GUI to view, edit, and batch-process YAML frontmatter in Markdown files. Key Features: File explorer with context menu actions Editable frontmatter table with type detection (text, list, number, checkbox, date) Batch actions: write/rename/delete keys, validate values, dele…

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@liam

All Properties pane (make sure the core plugin Properties view is enabled). From there, right-click on the property you want to rename and select “Rename…”

You have to be careful with this feature, when I used it on a property contained in 2000+ files, on completion of the operation I found that instead of changing the name of the property, it was simply removed from all 2000 files, after which I had to create this Feature Request: Bulk File Recovery.

Take care to create a fresh backup of your vault before doing any bulk operations.

I prefer to perform all bulk operations via Notepad++ – it has never failed me yet.