Is there any way to save an ALAsset in a way that would work despite any changes to ALAssetLibrary?

I asked an earlier question similar to this (with no responses), but I know more about the problem, so I decided to rephrase it in a new one. I hope this is ok.

Essentially, I need to store some ALAssets in my app, specifically photos from the Camera Roll/Photo Library.

If the user switches out of the app, then takes some pictures or deletes some pictures, then the ALAssets that I have stored become invalid.

Is there any way around this? Is there any data from the ALAssets that I can store, such as a photo ID, a path, or anything, which will "survive" the ALAssetLibrary re-indexing itself?

Thank you!

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