On Jul 28, at 10:27 AM, R. D. Preston wrote:
Seems odd that the volume that contains the dupe items is not listed. Does something explain this? Thx.
At the risk of getting too pedantic, I'll give a possible explanation.Unix adds every mounted volume to the file system at a mount point, which is just an ordinary directory. When the volume is mounted, the contents of the directory appear to be the the contents of the volume that's mounted there. If the volume is not mounted, you see the ordinary contents of that directory.
Suppose you had a disk mounted at the directory /Volumes/mount_point and set up a program to write stuff there automatically. Normally, the Mac takes care of creating and deleting mount points as needed. If something bad happens to your system (crash, power glitch, ...) the disk can be dismounted without your Mac deleting the mount point. Since it's just a directory, your program just keeps on writing stuff there because the path is still valid in the file system and the contents it writes will show up just like the contents of any other directory. If the disk is remounted later, it might have a different mount point, giving the appearance of a duplicate.
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