Hard links not found

[JorgD]

Hi there,

I have a Synology NAS drive accessed from Win 7 64-bit where the NAS volume is formatted as NTFS. When I search for duplicate files, attempting to ignore existing hard links, the program ignores that request and finds all identical files, including those already hard linked.

What is really required is that if there are 5 apparent identical files, 4 hard linked and 1 new one, that I can identify that there are effectively 2 real files using up disk space and that the program hard links all 5 to the same file and deletes the other one to free up space.

Currently it finds all hard links and thinks they are seperate file instances and then deletes them and recreates hard links. Also identifying files as already hard linked would save a lot of time by not having to recalculate the hash sum for each one.

It would be fantastic if the "Count Hardlinks in File" and "Exclude Hard Linked files" option would work.

[DigitalVolcano]

It's fine for local drives, but the Hard link count function has issues with mapped network drives due to the underlying support in the Windows API. I think the only network share type it supports is Samba.