Hi Nicolas,

Thank you for your answer!

Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> writes:
>> When a file uses #+include: X.org to structure an org-file and the
>> included files use footnotes defined in the master file, export works
>> without problems, but sorting the footnotes by reference with
>> : C-u M-x org-footnote-action s
>> removes the footnotes used in the included files.

> 1. test it with the latest Org release (9.2)?

I cannot easily test with the latest release, but

> 2. and, if that still fails, provide an ECM demonstrating your issue?

here’s a minimal release. Add it into an org-file, then create main.org
and sub.org with M-x org-babel-tangle. Finally run the code-block in
main.org.

#+BEGIN_SRC org :tangle main.org
  ,#+include: sub.org

  Here is a footnote[fn:1]

  run the following code block with C-c C-c and answer with =s=
  ,#+BEGIN_SRC elisp
  (org-footnote-action t)
  ,#+END_SRC

  ,* Footnotes

  [fn:1] footnote referenced in main

  [fn:2] footnote referenced in sub

#+END_SRC

#+BEGIN_SRC org :tangle sub.org
  This footnote will get lost[fn:2]
#+END_SRC

Best wishes,
Arne
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