diff --git a/db/demo.tar b/db/demo.tar
index c36232117..48b750ba7 100644
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diff --git a/src/services/import/tar.js b/src/services/import/tar.js
index 7da144dfc..30ddc9d76 100644
--- a/src/services/import/tar.js
+++ b/src/services/import/tar.js
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 "use strict";
 
-
 const Attribute = require('../../entities/attribute');
 const utils = require('../../services/utils');
 const log = require('../../services/log');
@@ -114,28 +113,18 @@ async function importTar(importContext, fileBuffer, importRootNote) {
     }
 
     function getNoteId(noteMeta, filePath) {
-        let noteId;
-
         const filePathNoExt = getTextFileWithoutExtension(filePath);
 
-        if (noteMeta) {
-            if (filePathNoExt in createdPaths) {
-                noteId = createdPaths[filePathNoExt];
-                noteIdMap[noteMeta.noteId] = noteId;
-            }
-            else {
-                noteId = getNewNoteId(noteMeta.noteId);
-            }
-        }
-        else {
-            if (filePathNoExt in createdPaths) {
-                noteId = createdPaths[filePathNoExt];
-            }
-            else {
-                noteId = utils.newEntityId();
-            }
+        console.log(`Searching for noteId of filePath ${filePath} with meta: ${!!noteMeta}`);
+
+        if (filePathNoExt in createdPaths) {
+            console.log("Found existing path", filePathNoExt, createdPaths[filePathNoExt]);
+
+            return createdPaths[filePathNoExt];
         }
 
+        const noteId = noteMeta ? getNewNoteId(noteMeta.noteId) : utils.newEntityId();
+
         createdPaths[filePathNoExt] = noteId;
 
         return noteId;
@@ -234,7 +223,8 @@ async function importTar(importContext, fileBuffer, importRootNote) {
 
         absUrl += (absUrl.length > 0 ? '/' : '') + url;
 
-        const targetNoteId = getNoteId(null, absUrl);
+        const {noteMeta} = getMeta(absUrl);
+        const targetNoteId = getNoteId(noteMeta, absUrl);
         return targetNoteId;
     }
 
@@ -340,22 +330,6 @@ async function importTar(importContext, fileBuffer, importRootNote) {
 
             await saveAttributes(note, noteMeta);
 
-            if (!noteMeta && (type === 'file' || type === 'image')) {
-                attributes.push({
-                    noteId,
-                    type: 'label',
-                    name: 'originalFileName',
-                    value: path.basename(filePath)
-                });
-
-                attributes.push({
-                    noteId,
-                    type: 'label',
-                    name: 'fileSize',
-                    value: content.byteLength
-                });
-            }
-
             if (!firstNote) {
                 firstNote = note;
             }
@@ -364,6 +338,22 @@ async function importTar(importContext, fileBuffer, importRootNote) {
                 filePath = getTextFileWithoutExtension(filePath);
             }
         }
+
+        if (!noteMeta && (type === 'file' || type === 'image')) {
+            attributes.push({
+                noteId,
+                type: 'label',
+                name: 'originalFileName',
+                value: path.basename(filePath)
+            });
+
+            attributes.push({
+                noteId,
+                type: 'label',
+                name: 'fileSize',
+                value: content.byteLength
+            });
+        }
     }
 
     /** @return {string} path without leading or trailing slash and backslashes converted to forward ones*/
@@ -426,7 +416,9 @@ async function importTar(importContext, fileBuffer, importRootNote) {
                 const noteId = createdPaths[path];
 
                 createdNoteIds[noteId] = true;
+            }
 
+            for (const noteId in createdNoteIds) { // now the noteIds are unique
                 await noteService.scanForLinks(noteId);
 
                 importContext.increaseProgressCount();
diff --git a/src/services/notes.js b/src/services/notes.js
index 87c988ad2..853827f42 100644
--- a/src/services/notes.js
+++ b/src/services/notes.js
@@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ function findRelationMapLinks(content, foundLinks) {
         foundLinks.push({
             name: 'relation-map-link',
             value: note.noteId
-        })
+        });
     }
 }
 
diff --git a/src/services/sync_table.js b/src/services/sync_table.js
index 03b0356d5..b293acabb 100644
--- a/src/services/sync_table.js
+++ b/src/services/sync_table.js
@@ -64,12 +64,14 @@ async function fillSyncRows(entityName, entityKey, condition = '') {
         const entityIds = await sql.getColumn(`SELECT ${entityKey} FROM ${entityName}`
             + (condition ? ` WHERE ${condition}` : ''));
 
+        let createdCount = 0;
+
         for (const entityId of entityIds) {
             const existingRows = await sql.getValue("SELECT COUNT(id) FROM sync WHERE entityName = ? AND entityId = ?", [entityName, entityId]);
 
             // we don't want to replace existing entities (which would effectively cause full resync)
             if (existingRows === 0) {
-                log.info(`Creating missing sync record for ${entityName} ${entityId}`);
+                createdCount++;
 
                 await sql.insert("sync", {
                     entityName: entityName,
@@ -79,6 +81,10 @@ async function fillSyncRows(entityName, entityKey, condition = '') {
                 });
             }
         }
+
+        if (createdCount > 0) {
+            log.info(`Created ${createdCount} missing sync records for ${entityName}.`);
+        }
     }
     catch (e) {
         // this is to fix migration from 0.30 to 0.32, can be removed later