selkhateeb / hardlink

a simple command-line utility that implements hardlinks on Mac OsX
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Finder Cannot Find Files that have hardlinks #4

Open mikedvzo opened 11 years ago

mikedvzo commented 11 years ago

I have been experiencing a bizarre issue that I now contribute to hardlinks in MAC OS X. I am using them for Googledrive. If you create a hardlink to a directory you are unable to search for files in finder search bar unless you choose "This Mac" instead of the current location. If you use Spotlight it works fine. If you rename the file and rename it back again it works fine until you reboot. I can recreate this behavior on demand. Once I removed the hardlinks everything was fine without even having to reboot. UNfortunately I need ot search these directories regularly so going to have to say good bye to Googledrive.