# Convert & Delete/Replace Entity preserving references

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**Created:** [February 11, 2022, 5:00am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/convert-delete-replace-entity-preserving-references/2530 "2022-02-11T05:00:06Z")\
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Imagine you have the following items in Database 1:

`- Entity 1`  
`-- Entity 1.1`  
`-- Entity 1.2`  
`--- Entity 1.2.1`  
`--- Entity 1.2.2`

If I choose to ‘convert’ `Entity 1.2` from db 1 to db 2 are you expecting that it will automatically also convert `Entity 1`, `Entity 1.2.1` and `Entity 1.2.2` as well?  
What about `Entity 1.1` ?

It is unlikely that the simple ‘convert’ function (which basically operates on a single entity) will ever cover a complex case with self-relations.

I think what you might be looking for is something like a cross-database ‘[deep copy](https://community.fibery.io/t/intra-space-deep-copy/6079)’, followed by deletion of the original tree.

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