The problem was that the exporting pass which is in charge of copying all the data assets, was not aware that the buffers had been stripped and already written to in the target folder - so they were overwritten with the original ones which are kept intact.
The problem was that the exporting pass which is in charge of copying all the data assets, was not aware that the buffers had been stripped and already written to in the target folder - so they were overwritten with the original ones which are kept intact.