When I merge two projects I often (though not always) find my carefully elaborated scene graph hierarchy corrupted.

Thanks Vincent. Unfortunately it does not really help to put everything in an addidional top folder. Example:

When I take project 1

project 1and merge in project 2

project 2the result shows two 'scene graphs' and dozens of objects from merged-in project 2 are extracted to the root. Some are from object instances, but that doesn't seem to be a rule:

project after merging