was the note that referenced the refactored note in a different vault? If so, it will only get updated if it explicitly has a vault prefix let's say we had 1.

foo.md

in vault1 2.

bar.md

in vault2 3.

bar.md

referenced

foo.md

like so:

[[Foo|foo]]

In this case, refactoring

foo.md

to

parent.foo.md

won't update the link in

bar.md

to

[[Foo|parent.foo]]

if the link was explicit like

[[Foo|dendron://vault1/foo]]

, it would correctly update to

[[Foo|dendron://vault1/parent.foo]]