diff --git a/Control/xAODRootAccess/python/ClassNameManips.py b/Control/xAODRootAccess/python/ClassNameManips.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..356d92e9c66cea80055aea7c62d53521e52a5f2b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Control/xAODRootAccess/python/ClassNameManips.py
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+# Copyright (C) 2002-2020 CERN for the benefit of the ATLAS collaboration
+
+# Helper functions for class name manipulations
+
+# For some of the finding
+import re
+
+# For logging errors and warnings
+from AthenaCommon import Logging
+cnm_log = Logging.logging.getLogger('ClassNameManips')
+
+def pers_to_trans_name(p):
+    # Baseline: transient name is identical
+    t = p
+    # Let's look for a version in the name
+    vers = re.findall('_v\d+',t)
+    if len(vers)>1:
+        cnm_log.warning('Input name '+p+' seems to have multiple version numbers: '+str(vers)+' - will wipe them all')
+    for v in vers:
+        # Wipe out the version
+        t = t.replace(v,'')
+    # Now convert data vectors
+    if 'DataVector<' in t:
+        t = t.replace('DataVector<','').replace('>','')
+        t = 'Container#'.join(t.split('#'))
+    cnm_log.debug('Translated '+p+' to '+t)
+    return t
diff --git a/Reconstruction/RecExample/RecExCommon/share/RecExCommon_topOptions.py b/Reconstruction/RecExample/RecExCommon/share/RecExCommon_topOptions.py
index a05093959a3a34eb6511afe90787714c47bc5b51..5fe6060df29526e13c0e3ba595f18eaad980ee70 100755
--- a/Reconstruction/RecExample/RecExCommon/share/RecExCommon_topOptions.py
+++ b/Reconstruction/RecExample/RecExCommon/share/RecExCommon_topOptions.py
@@ -1369,7 +1369,9 @@ if rec.doDPD() and (rec.DPDMakerScripts()!=[] or rec.doDPD.passThroughMode):
 
             from RecExConfig.InputFilePeeker import inputFileSummary
             #Explicitely add file metadata from input and from transient store
-            MSMgr.AddMetaDataItemToAllStreams(inputFileSummary['metadata_itemsList'])
+            #Include translation of name from persistent format to transient format
+            from xAODRootAccess.ClassNameManips import pers_to_trans_name
+            MSMgr.AddMetaDataItemToAllStreams([pers_to_trans_name(x) for x in inputFileSummary['metadata_itemsList']])
             MSMgr.AddMetaDataItemToAllStreams(dfMetadataItemList())
             pass
         pass