qarmin / czkawka

Multi functional app to find duplicates, empty folders, similar images etc.
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Hardlink files found by name #1239

Open Key-Snapper opened 3 months ago

Key-Snapper commented 3 months ago

As I understand the help, I have to select all dupes found and the first of each group is the "original". No problem if the files are real dupes, found by hash. But I have a folder A with images, some of which are hard-linked to folder B or C with additional images. Now I have re-tagged folder A and the hard-link is broken. I want to update the files in B and C. If I search by name, how can I be sure that folder A is the first entry in a group? Shouldn't files in a reference folder be the originals that are hard-linked to other identically named files?