No Deforming after Connection possible?

 From:  Frenchy Pilou (PILOU)
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In general you can't edit something after making other thing than a generic transformation!
That breaks the "Histo"
So you can make some Undo (Ctrl + Z)

The better is make a file save like Ring_tempo1, Ring-tempo2 ...for keep the start of what do you want try...