Files hardlinked with Dupemerge are displayed incorrectly.

[kotenok2000]

[void]

While Everything 1.5 does monitor changes to hard links, it does not detect hard link deletions.
This is a limitation with the USN Journal and Everything.

Please try forcing a rebuild:

• In Everything, from the Tools menu, click Options.
• Click the Indexes tab on the left.
• Click Force Rebuild.
• Click OK.

[kotenok2000]

Force Rebuild worked.

[jimspoon]

From the Dupemerge documentation page:

Transaction based Hardlinking
Before DupeMerge hardlinks file together it renames the file to a temporary name, then creates the hardlink, and afterwards deletes the temporary file. All that is done to be able to roll-back the operation if e.g the hardlinking fails.

Those longer filenames in the screenshot look like they might be the temporary names given to the files, as described above. Maybe those temporary names got indexed by Everything.

Glad the Force Rebuild worked, but still I was interested to know what might have happened there.

[NotNull]

what might have happened there

Something with limitations of the USN Journal and hardlinks (and maybe even "File Tunneling").
We have a specialist among us regarding the USN Journal, so it's better when I don't answer...

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