Unpack a Smart Object.... How??

Hiya,
OK, this is the scenario. I had to create a smart object of a group of layers because no matter what I tried I could NOT get dragging the group from one document to another to paste in place perfectly in the other doc (canvas was the exact same size as the other so that was not the issue). So when I created a Smart Object and the dragged it over it was almost perfect but the problem was there was no way to "unpack" the smart object to put it back to regular layers or better yet, grouped layers.
Is there a way to do this that I'm not aware of?? I hope so, I've 3 other artists over at the DAZ forums that are interesested in knowing as well.
Thanks much for the assistance.
Richard ;-)~

No, there is no direct way to "unpack" a smart object - because in
general the operation can't be done or would be lossy (involving
several conversions).
The point would be to have some quicker way of returning layer structure, sure damaged, to the master document. And one not too easy to do - a right click or control click on the Smart Object "transfer Smart object to layers". Thats all.
In my feature request I remember suggesting a dialog warning of these losses. So lets say (IF all of these conversions have been done at all) it returns a LAYERED, resampled, mode converted, version of the Smart object into the master file. It would obviously not be Impossible to 'unpack' vector Smart objects, again a dialog informing you of this, or saying "rasterizing object necessary".
These conversions happen ANYWAY for the file to be represented in the master document, so for output, results are not changed - all you are doing is 'fixing' it, at res, bit depth, and mode. But still layered.
RAMWolff44's example is a good one - where this functionality would be useful because he has used Objects to deal with layer structure - hisSmart Objects are not necesarily resampled, mode converted, or profile converted.

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