Values deleted after column type change

[tjaska]

Describe the bug

I accidentally changed column type to Tag. This column had numbers in it, so thinking it was Number type (it wasn't, it was Text type) I changed it to Number and all my data was gone.

On further investigation, it seems if I change the type back to Tag, the values are present, but disassociated from their original rows. Fortunately I could restore it from Obsidian Sync history log.

It seems Number <-> Tag conversion is broken both ways.

Value conversion should never be destructive and if there is even a chance of that, there should be a warning prompt.
Let me know if I can be of further help.

Steps to reproduce

1. Have a Text type column, with various numeric entries.
2. Change it to Tag type. All the numbers get converted into tags successfully
3. Change it into Number type -> all the values are gone.

Expected behavior

Values are converted to numbers.

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No

Obsidian debug info

SYSTEM INFO:
Obsidian version: v1.5.12
Installer version: v1.4.13
Operating system: Windows 10 Pro 10.0.19045
Login status: logged in
Catalyst license: none
Insider build toggle: off
Live preview: on
Base theme: dark
Community theme: Minimal v7.5.2
Snippets enabled: 3
Restricted mode: off
Plugins installed: 29
Plugins enabled: 29
1: Dataview v0.5.66
2: Kanban v1.5.3
3: Templater v2.2.3
4: Quick Explorer v0.2.8
5: Hotkeys++ v0.2.7
6: Editor Syntax Highlight v0.1.3
7: DB Folder v3.5.1
8: Admonition v10.2.0
9: Settings Search v1.3.10
10: Commander v0.5.1
11: Projects v1.17.2
12: Linter v1.23.2
13: Omnisearch v1.21.1
14: Natural Language Dates v0.6.2
15: Janitor v1.0.7
16: Emoji Shortcodes v2.2.0
17: Minimal Theme Settings v7.5.0
18: Excalidraw v2.1.1
19: Tag Wrangler v0.6.1
20: Style Settings v1.0.8
21: Home tab v1.1.2
22: Paste image rename v1.6.1
23: Bulk Rename v0.5.2
24: Numerals v1.2.0
25: Calendar v1.5.10
26: Image Toolkit v1.4.1
27: DataLoom v8.15.12
28: Table of Contents v0.2.0
29: Recent Files v1.3.10

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[jonasdumas]

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