Problems with saving Definition

[Alexanderererr]

So I edited Provinces and that editing deleted some provinces, I saved it and in Definition. The provinces I deleted get swapped with provinces all the way to the bottom, I know it's preserve-ids but if I don't enable it IDs won't show, if disabled there are only X's. Pls fix maybe THX.

[Alexanderererr]

Got cancer reading it myself, sorry. So I meant
So I edited Provinces and that editing deleted some provinces. I saved it in Definition, The provinces I deleted get swapped with provinces all the way to the bottom, I know it's preserve-ids but if I don't enable it IDs won't show, if disabled there are only X's. Pls fix maybe THX.

[ScottyThePilot]

I believe the reason I implemented preserve-ids this way is to prevent gaps in the list of province IDs because the game might not like it. So if you delete a province in the middle of the list, it swaps one in from the bottom, changing just the ID. It's been a few years since I first implemented this so I don't remember if I've actually tested this on the game and verified whether gaps cause the game to break, though.