oldAnytypeID and importing/exporting spaces

[alexjp]

Hi,

From my understanding (please correct me if wrong), while doing importing/exporting, Anytype will set the snapshot.data.details.oldAnytypeID and snapshot.data.details.sourceFilePath to the, well, old ID of the object, so that importing does not create duplicate objects.

Could these fields be a list, instead of a single value, and keep a history of all old ID's and append to the list if new?

This is an issue with the use case:

Have Space A. Have Space A import some items from Space E (a space with a base structure of items, think of it like an Experience space).

So now the Space A items have a snapshot.data.details.oldAnytypeID with should be the ID of the item in Space E, and I can re-import Space E how many times I want without creating duplicates.

But now if I export/backup Space A (with Space E objects) to a zip file, and re-import/create a new space and import that backup zip file, importing again from Space E will create duplicates. (the snapshot.data.details.oldAnytypeID of Space E is lost)

Is my understanding of what the fields do and what happens correct? Could this be fixed by having a list of all the snapshot.data.details.oldAnytypeID, so that no id is lost?

Thanks !!