diff --git a/src/caoscrawler/converters.py b/src/caoscrawler/converters.py
index 1fb944db76a82351be7e4cfc5f7e850120d4b51f..e79fbcabdb4fe48bc791287fa5551c0ade69e842 100644
--- a/src/caoscrawler/converters.py
+++ b/src/caoscrawler/converters.py
@@ -39,9 +39,8 @@ from abc import ABCMeta, abstractmethod
 from string import Template
 import yaml_header_tools
 
-from caosdb.high_level_api import (CaosDBPythonEntity,
-                                   create_entity_container)
 import pandas as pd
+
 import yaml
 
 # These are special properties which are (currently) treated differently
@@ -452,57 +451,6 @@ class SimpleFileConverter(Converter):
             return None
         return m.groupdict()
 
-class YamlFileCaosDBRecord(Converter):
-    """
-    Load a file using pylib high level API and convert the contained
-    record into caosdb records.
-    """
-
-    def typecheck(self, element: StructureElement):
-        return isinstance(element, File)
-
-    def create_children(self, generalStore: GeneralStore,
-                        element: StructureElement):
-        return list()
-
-    def match(self, element: StructureElement):
-        if not isinstance(element, File):
-            raise RuntimeError("Element must be a file.")
-        m = re.match(self.definition["match"], element.name)
-        if m is None:
-            return None
-        return m.groupdict()
-
-    def create_records(self, values: GeneralStore,
-                       records: RecordStore,
-                       element: StructureElement):
-        if not isinstance(element, File):
-            raise RuntimeError("A yaml file is needed to create children.")
-        
-        keys_modified = []
-
-        with open(element.path, "r") as f:
-            entries = yaml.safe_load(f)
-
-        entity = CaosDBPythonEntity.deserialize(entries)
-        entities = create_entity_container(entity)
-
-        for n, ent in enumerate(entities):
-            name = ent.name
-            if name is None:
-                name = "YamlRecord_{}".format(n + 1)
-            records[name] = ent
-            values[name] = ent
-
-            for propname in ent.properties:
-                keys_modified.append((name, propname.name))
-
-        # Process the records section of the yaml definition:
-        keys_modified.extend(
-            super().create_records(values, records, element))
-        
-        return keys_modified
-    
 
 class FileConverter(SimpleFileConverter):
     def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
diff --git a/src/caoscrawler/crawl.py b/src/caoscrawler/crawl.py
index 7fed3cb7362ebc077bedfd401bcf5569a9f0bd0c..cccbbdb040c556da8f904f27dd9d03aafb6d4872 100644
--- a/src/caoscrawler/crawl.py
+++ b/src/caoscrawler/crawl.py
@@ -330,9 +330,6 @@ class Crawler(object):
             "SimpleFile": {
                 "converter": "SimpleFileConverter",
                 "package": "caoscrawler.converters"},
-            "YamlFileCaosDBRecord": {
-                "converter": "YamlFileCaosDBRecord",
-                "package": "caoscrawler.converters"},
             "MarkdownFile": {
                 "converter": "MarkdownFileConverter",
                 "package": "caoscrawler.converters"},
@@ -1281,8 +1278,8 @@ def crawler_main(crawled_directory_path: str,
 
     if dry_run:
         ins, upd = crawler.synchronize(commit_changes=False)
-        inserts = [convert_to_python_object(i).serialize() for i in ins]
-        updates = [convert_to_python_object(i).serialize() for i in upd]
+        inserts = [str(i) for i in ins]
+        updates = [str(i) for i in upd]
         with open("dry.yml", "w") as f:
             f.write(yaml.dump({
                 "insert": inserts,