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> ELEMENT_LOOP() takes a DataType, which is what's used both in PCBtype
> and BufferType.

If I save the layout it actually seems to some extra symbols and then i look in the ChangeElementName(...) functionr last row is:
  return ChangeElementText (PCB, PCB->Data, Element, NAME_INDEX (PCB), NewName);
So the last row seems to operaton the PCB instead of the buffer.