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pkolaczk / fclones

Efficient Duplicate File Finder
MIT License
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23000 symlinks created...? #196

Closed KyleSanderson closed 1 year ago

KyleSanderson commented 1 year ago

0.30.0

fclones group --cache /mnt/*T* > dupes.txt
fclones link < dupes.txt

Looks like it riddled all my disks with symlinks, preventing my containers from accessing the associated data... there's a switch for symlinks and I didn't use that. Is there a way to undo this to recover my damaged data (and prevent it from happening in the future).

th1000s commented 1 year ago

I also think that the automatic fallback to symbolic links is unexpected and therefore bad behavior. Per default fclones should not do any cross-device actions, because in this case it means deleting data!

To undo that you have to write a script to track down and fix these symlinks yourself, sorry.