Templater batch update

[mi-nova]

What I’m trying to do

I’ve created a new Templater template with frontmatter aka properties the way I want them. It works for new files I create. How do I run it on 10, 100, or the 5k files I’ve already created ?

Things I have tried

read documentation

batch - nothing

[acbrown]

For what it’s worth, I think you’d have to do a mass find and replace on the files with something like VScode, working outside Obsidian. I have done similar things with python scripts, when I did a mass change of the old frontmatter to Lila Rest’s CSS-based version. More recently, I moved them all back. It was messy but it worked.

[acbrown]

I could post my scripts if that was useful but they are nothing to be proud of!

[AlanG]

If it helps, this is the Javascript script I used to convert my inline Dataview fields to frontmatter property fields across ~3000 notes:

https://share.note.sx/9djf43g7

[mi-nova]

Thanks. I’ll give it a try this week and let you know. Maintenance a necessary task, but with large vault, a pita…

[mi-nova]

Thanks for reply. “working outside Obsidian” was my 1st idea, but assume I’ll lose/break the backlinks and frontlinks.

[gino_m]

@acbrown

a mass find and replace on the files with something like VScode

See also this thread:

Add a property to 1.500 files

What I’m trying to do I want to add “tag: #m/diary” to all of my files in the folder “Diary” Things I have tried googled it searched for plugin For y’all who code this probably doesnt seem like a big problem, but for me its tough And I can’t do the same repetitive task with 1500 items. Would be sweet if someone had a clue how I could do that :))

[acbrown]

I think the links get automatically reconstructed when the files are reindexed after being changed. Check this with someone authoritative but that’s always been the assumption I’ve worked on.

[acbrown]

Where do you want the tag put? Anywhere special, like in the frontmatter, or will the end of the file do?
Do you have either a serious editor like vscode or python on your system?

[gino_m]

Not a programmer.
I have pyCharm but not using it (yet).
I have VsCode, Sublime Text, Notepad++ and Notepadqq, used for different purposes.

In the thread, I showed how someone who doesn’t have YAML can make one with search and replace and the tags of course will come in the YAML block.
I have various scenarios there.
One of them:

regex101: build, test, and debug regex

[acbrown]

And do your 1500 files all have yaml blocks now?

[gino_m]

I didn’t need them, the person (might have) needed them; he never specified.

I made YAML like that for 10k plus files a year ago.
Of course, I had ready-made lowercase aliases, etc.