How import AE Shape paths and their Fills to Illustrator?

Hello,

         i had imported a few hundred Illustrator paths to After Effects, then used "Create shapes from vector layer" to make them editable Shape layer paths to then run scripts that equalize the number of vertices on each path.

After this i thought via online tutorial that Edit > Edit Original.. would replace or update the originating paths to same number of verts back in Illustrator, but this was proven wrong. So i hoped anyone could please tell\show me,..

1) how import AE Shape paths and their Fills to Illustrator?

2) how would such an action be scripted if possible?

Thanks for any help soon as time allows,

J