Help about recreating the products with the same ID when importing from a feed

[trifo13]

Hi guys.

Once again I need your help.

I am running version 1.3.9h Zen Cart store, and I am populating the products with a feed.

The problem is that the feed does not delete the products that are already out of stock so my store is full with sold out products.

I need to delete all the products and run the feed so I can have only current products.

The problem is that many of my products are indexed by Google and with a good rank and if I delete them then they will not be accessible by the same URL (ID)

So the question is:

How to delete the products but when I run the feed that automatically populates the products that they can be using the same ID as they were before the deletion?

Looking forward hearing you and your advises!

Thank you in advance!

[DrByte]

You'll need to change whatever program you're using to import from the feed so that it retains the product ID to suit your unique needs.