From the Dupemerge documentation page:
Glad the Force Rebuild worked, but still I was interested to know what might have happened there.
Those longer filenames in the screenshot look like they might be the temporary names given to the files, as described above. Maybe those temporary names got indexed by Everything.Transaction based Hardlinking
Before DupeMerge hardlinks file together it renames the file to a temporary name, then creates the hardlink, and afterwards deletes the temporary file. All that is done to be able to roll-back the operation if e.g the hardlinking failes.
Glad the Force Rebuild worked, but still I was interested to know what might have happened there.
Statistics: Posted by jimspoon — Tue Jan 07, 2025 12:08 pm