diff --git a/sources/dataBase/projectdatabase.cpp b/sources/dataBase/projectdatabase.cpp
index 7c1472fd1..5e463cbc3 100644
--- a/sources/dataBase/projectdatabase.cpp
+++ b/sources/dataBase/projectdatabase.cpp
@@ -2697,8 +2697,9 @@ bool projectDataBase::createDataBase()
 
 		//The numbering tables (QETZ-DB-FIRST stage 2b): the project's
 		//schemes, one row per part of each in its order, and the settings
-		//saved with them. Not filled from the folios: QETProject writes
-		//them when it reads its file and whenever its numbering changes.
+		//saved with them; the save writes the numbering from them. Not
+		//filled from the folios: QETProject writes them when it reads its
+		//file and whenever its numbering changes.
 	for (const char *table : {
 			 "CREATE TABLE numbering_scheme ("
 			 "kind VARCHAR(20) NOT NULL, title TEXT NOT NULL, uuid VARCHAR(50), "
diff --git a/sources/qetproject.cpp b/sources/qetproject.cpp
index cc1de0d6f..8b5ec0b61 100644
--- a/sources/qetproject.cpp
+++ b/sources/qetproject.cpp
@@ -4247,10 +4247,13 @@ void QETProject::writeDefaultPropertiesXml(QDomElement &xml_element)
 	}
 	xml_element.appendChild(xrefs_elmt);
 
-	writeNumberingXml(numberingOfProject(), xml_element);
+		//The numbering is written from the project database's rows
+		//(QETZ-DB-FIRST stage 2b-2), which the project keeps in step
+		//(writeNumberingRows())
+	writeNumberingXml(m_data_base.numbering(), xml_element);
 		//QET_CHECK_NUMBERING_ROWS=1: say whether the project database's
-		//numbering rows write what the project writes (QETZ-DB-FIRST stage
-		//2b-1). A test and debugging aid; it changes nothing.
+		//numbering rows write what the project holds. A test and
+		//debugging aid; it changes nothing.
 	if (qEnvironmentVariableIntValue("QET_CHECK_NUMBERING_ROWS") == 1) {
 		QDomDocument from_project, from_rows;
 		QDomElement project_root = from_project.createElement(QStringLiteral("numbering"));
@@ -4308,8 +4311,9 @@ projectDataBase::Numbering QETProject::numberingOfProject() const
 	@brief QETProject::writeNumberingRows
 	Write the project's numbering into the project database's numbering
 	tables (QETZ-DB-FIRST stage 2b-1): after reading the file and after
-	each change of the numbering, so the rows are always what the save
-	writes (QET_CHECK_NUMBERING_ROWS checks it)
+	each change of the numbering. The save writes the numbering from
+	them (2b-2); QET_CHECK_NUMBERING_ROWS says whether they hold what
+	the project does
 */
 void QETProject::writeNumberingRows()
 {
diff --git a/tests/qttest/tst_elementautonumids.cpp b/tests/qttest/tst_elementautonumids.cpp
index f41786945..565a25111 100644
--- a/tests/qttest/tst_elementautonumids.cpp
+++ b/tests/qttest/tst_elementautonumids.cpp
@@ -786,6 +786,14 @@ qet.log('PROBE ' + JSON.stringify({saves: saves}));
 		QVERIFY(xml.contains("title=\"Rows renamed folio\""));
 		QCOMPARE(diagramAttributes(xml, QStringLiteral("conductorAutonum")).value(0),
 				 QStringLiteral("Rows renamed conductor"));
+		// and the save, which writes the numbering from the rows (2b-2),
+		// has every scheme and the ones made current
+		const Saved numbering = parse(xml);
+		QCOMPARE(numbering.current, QStringLiteral("Rows renamed element"));
+		QCOMPARE(numbering.scheme_formula.value(QStringLiteral("Rows renamed element")),
+				 QStringLiteral("R-%sequ_1"));
+		QCOMPARE(QUuid(numbering.current_id), numbering.scheme_id.value(QStringLiteral("Rows renamed element")));
+		QVERIFY(xml.contains("current_autonum=\"Rows renamed conductor\""));
 	}
 
 	void conductorNumberings()