Benito,
Forgive me, but I don't have PDM Essentials installed on my system so I haven't tested this out. I did take a look at how PDMLink, though, and I imagine that it should be similar.
Do you not have the ability to exclude dependents from the Save As?
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Or change the Dependents from Required/All to None?