How unique is a record's UUID

DEVONthink Automation
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In this thread, someone wants to replace a pending record in database A with a record with the same UUID in database B. Possibly some kind of sync glitch caused the record to be missing from A.

I’m wondering if DT will be confused when two records with the same UUID exist at the same time (albeit in different databases). In scripting, one must probably address the right one by passing the in parameter to getRecordWithUuid.

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This can (usually temporarily) happen if an item is moved from one database to another but not all databases have been fully synchronized yet.