How to save properly Smart Object?

Hello!
I've got a file where I have 2 groups of layers (SET1 SET2) (the first one is duplicated and made -100% (minus 100%) width - which effects with horrizontal mirror of the first one). SET1 have texts, and as you may guess the mirrored groups of layers (SET2) has texts mirrored which I need to make readible (revert them back). That's why I made text layers as Smart Object and when I open this object I can rotate text back, but saving the Smart Object and returning back to the project gives me proper text on SET2 but rotated again SET1. I guess the Smart Object's in both sets are somehow related to each other. Every time I change something in one make an impact on the second. I noticed that even I save my Smart Object with some new name, to the directory I created for the project, it doesn't seem project choose that one in the project directory, but one from TEMP folder in windows root system. I thought to name them separately and load them to loose that relativeness. But I try and I try I do not know how to do it, how to make them independent.
Any ideas?
Kindest Pawel
//I had to use Smart Object as Layers are transformed with Perspecitve transform tool, and vector objects (like text) can not be perspective transformed...and I can not in fact rasterize those Smart Objects as the project is a template to edit by others. If I rasterize them anybody could not change text layers anymore...
I am getting to be sure, that's immpossible:/

omg, somehow I did it. It seems that 'New Smart Object by Copy' breaks that relativness, but I am not quite sure as I tried to did it before withou success. Anyway, I am on the track again:)
Thanks for listening

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