I'm hitting a wall with saving and loading persistent data in Unreal Engine, especially with references that become invalid.

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@SophiaWolfie

you are using the old path as the way to identify the references to the objects

Yes, because initially all references are already unique for objects.

@SophiaWolfie

is the path the only thing reliable for this?

You can come up with as many methods as you like, but the reference is the path (under the hood), and that is what we ultimately need.

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Be careful with Rename: if suddenly there are two objects with the same name, the game will crash.