# Keeping Original Ids in State Files
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/keeping-original-ids-in-state-files/11940
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [April 20, 2023, 9:40pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/keeping-original-ids-in-state-files/11940 "2023-04-20T21:40:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@HollowSun0](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/HollowSun0)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2023, 9:40pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/keeping-original-ids-in-state-files/11940/1 "2023-04-20T21:40:03Z")
Hi all,
I’m currently in the process of investigating what needs to be done to preserve the original Ids of proxies and properties inside a state file.
In ParaView 5.9, loading a state file with [keepOriginalIds](https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/-/blob/aea455e3cc05ba6e81f94bc3a7ad2ae9812ce96d/Remoting/ServerManager/vtkSMSessionProxyManager.h#L422) set to `true` triggers an abort.
I was wondering if anyone tracks information about how to tackle this issue.
Thank you,
Patrick
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### Author:  [@utkarsh.ayachit](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/utkarsh.ayachit)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2023, 1:16pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/keeping-original-ids-in-state-files/11940/2 "2023-04-21T13:16:27Z")
original ids are not restorable in the way you seem to think here. The `keepOriginalIds` is only meant for things like undo/redo, for example. What is your intent with preserving ids? Maybe there’s an alterative that could work for you.
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### Author:  [@HollowSun0](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/HollowSun0)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2023, 2:17pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/keeping-original-ids-in-state-files/11940/3 "2023-04-21T14:17:45Z")
The purpose of my issue is to commit state files without having the whole file change at every save.