# Edge case - Export of link nodes doing something strange

**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/edge-case-export-of-link-nodes-doing-something-strange/57826
**Category:** General
**Created:** [5 February 2022 12:07 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/edge-case-export-of-link-nodes-doing-something-strange/57826 "2022-02-05T12:07:38Z")
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### Author: ![davec1001](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f08c70/32.png) [@davec1001](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/davec1001)
#### Post date: [5 February 2022 12:07 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/edge-case-export-of-link-nodes-doing-something-strange/57826/1 "2022-02-05T12:07:38Z")

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I am noticing that exporting link nodes sometimes has extra 'ghost entries' Presumably left over from previous versions of the link node.

I am just posting in case this is of interest to any developers I did try and recreate it haven't been able to do it reliably, but my flows.json is peppered with these

I do a lot of exporting from one environment and importing to another. So it is likely toi happen when importing a link

```auto
[
    {
        "id": "412a0940f2f6b613",
        "type": "link out",
        "z": "95d00868.2c53c8",
        "name": "",
        "links": [
            "23bd3d24.796492",
            "283e9b27dc2a0af9"
        ],
        "x": 685,
        "y": 580,
        "wires": []
    }
]

```

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### Author: ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/1X/d073cd938eafa2e558d7c2cd59003b3ef4963033.png) [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [6 April 2022 12:08 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/edge-case-export-of-link-nodes-doing-something-strange/57826/2 "2022-04-06T12:08:40Z")

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