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This is just to report about the warning system, apparently warning in vain, as the setting to not follow mount points seem to also apply to my user created symbolic links (windows 10), using hardlinkshell or linkshell extension.

See below excerpts showing the warning and yet further does that the link were not followed.

I still have to check in the results if duplicates indeed are appearing from having such possibility. but it does seem in either case to be a problem.. Either the warning is valid or the "not followed" is. I am assuming that it might be about vocabulary. (I am hoping). I will update this if I find more evidence. I searched the forum for symbolic links and did not find in my lazyness existing such specific reporting.

I use (...) to mean clipped from this report.

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12/30/2024 7:13:07 PM
Scanning
- Regular mode- Same content : xxHash-64
- All file extensions
Warning! These folders map to the same location or subfolder : please change to prevent false duplicates being detected.
D:\Desktop\ -> Z:\0 science\
D:\Documents\ -> D:\My Games\

Folders to search:
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D:\My Games\ [Find duplicates-Yes_Ext]
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D:\Documents\ [Find duplicates-Yes_Ext]
D:\Desktop\ [Find duplicates-Yes_Ext]
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Z:\0 science\ [Find duplicates-Yes_Ext]
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12/30/2024 7:15:32 PM
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Reparse/Junction point not followed: D:\Desktop\0 science\
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Reparse/Junction point not followed: D:\Documents\My games\
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Reparse/Junction point not followed: D:\Documents\Saved Games\
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I just noticed that while I have 2 symbolic links to the external folder of "my games in D", only one is making it to the warning.

It might be Saved Games, but between NTFS folder names and windows extra layers of presentation I forgot which. This is a context where I have displaced all my users folders and might have had french folder names in the past. if that changes anything. I am available for more information if needed.

This warning isn't related to the 'do not follow mountpoints' setting.


Warning! These folders map to the same location or subfolder : please change to prevent false duplicates being detected.
D:\Desktop\ -> Z:\0 science\
D:\Documents\ -> D:\My Games\


This is saying that it thinks the starter paths are the same place. It's possible that it may be wrong, especially if you have cloned a drive a some point in the past-

This is why I am reporting, this warning seem to be in vain, as I have checked that option. If intended for prudence and not having to monitor that setting, it does not break anything.. I think I tested and did not see the feared symbolically followed duplicates. So I am not really worried.

And they are pointing to the same thing, but not really followed per my testing, in spite of the warning that they might show fake duplicates.