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BTW if anyone needs this functionality and wants my module I’m happy to pass along. It uses some MBS calls so may suffer some limitations if you must remove them.

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Just an FYI … you can actually store MemoryBlock and any other binary data in JSON by simply doing EncodeBase64() before GenerateJSON(), and doing DecodeBase64() after ParseJSON(). For example:

Var tmpDict As Dictionary = new Dictionary
Var tmpData As MemoryBlock =  (lots of binary data)
tmpDict.Value(“myBinaryData”) = EncodeBase64(tmpData)
Var json As String = GenerateJSON(tmpDict)

// Write the json to a file, then later read it back it and reverse ...
Var json As String = ParseJSON( rawJsonTextFromFile )
Var tmpDict As Dictionary = new Dictionary
Var myMemoryBlock As MemoryBlock = DecodeBase64( tmpDict.Value(“myBinaryData”) )
tmpDict = Dictionary(json)
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Of course, and that’s exactly what I do with my current XML solution. Ditto for folderItems, etc. With enough effort you can do most anything. My point was, I was hoping there would be a canned solution so we can just do the 2 calls as in my initial message with all these hacks opaque to the user.