access AssetImporter userData after asset was imported?

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I have a .csv file for which I wrote a custom Inspector GUI. I‘d like to store the settings (ie delimiter etc) into the asset .meta file‘s userData section. The only way that allowed me to do so was during import by accessing AssetImporter.userData property.

However I wish to change this userData anytime after the asset was imported. Is this possible without manually parsing the .meta file?

Right now the only option I seem to have is to force a re-import of the asset after any of the associated settings have changed.

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Gotcha! Took me a while to find but this did the trick:

var importer = AssetImporter.GetAtPath(path);
importer.userData = "Edited!";
importer.SaveAndReimport();

Snippet from this post (and fixed):

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