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FDUPES is a program for identifying or deleting duplicate files residing within specified directories.
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fdupes misses duplicates when operating on a smaller set of directories #27

Closed amigalemming closed 8 years ago

amigalemming commented 8 years ago

I tried two things:

$ fdupes -r data2/ data3/

then I thought that it would be a nice to know the duplicates that are only on data3. Thus I started

$ fdupes -r data3/

While this was running I thought that I could derive the output of the second call from the first result by filtering out data2 results. Finally I completed both fdupes -r data3 and filtering out data2 and compared the results. I expected differences in the order of groups and order of files within groups. But interestingly fdupes -r data3/ missed several files in groups of equal files. I processed a HFS+ partition with fdupes on Ubuntu. The data was created on a Mac and contains lots of equal .xml and .nib and .lproj and other files with names starting with ._ .

amigalemming commented 8 years ago

I have to withdraw this bug report, since the HFS+ file system seems to be corrupted or Linux does not understand it. One of the missing files e.g. is listed as:

????????? ? ?    ?           ?            ? ._Paragon

that is, neither file size nor owner nor access date can be retrieved.