Newbie

So I understand that DrivePool will tolerate 2 different files with the same name & path on different disks at first, but will eventually delete one of them during the next check. As an ordinary user, and as you mentioned it to "Christopher (Drashna)", please allow me to also recommend that this DrivePool behavior be explained in the Q4142489 wiki entry, which would be helpful for the overall understanding of DrivePool. Once again, thank you very, very much for your efforts and all these accurate and complete answers. By the way, maybe I didn't quite understand your status, but I'm impressed by your dedication to answering people in a forum without getting paid for it.

Thank you very much for this detailed answer. I knew that DrivePool tolerates having 2 duplicates with the same path on different drives in the pool. When adding a disk to the pool, I of course first eliminated the duplicates files with a duplicate finder software, but it was sometimes tedious so I then left the duplicates where they were. I understand now that these apparently surprising duplicated files in my pie chart were in fact mine from the beginning. Is it then a problem to leave them there ? I then don't quite understand the duplication warning that I get during the check : what can be the "duplicated files mismatching parts" ? I also noticed that when theses duplicates files just have the same name but are not really the same binary file (for example 2 different videos with the same name), then DrivePool just shows one of the two files in the pool. Which one does DrivePool choose ? Is this the case seen by DrivePool as a "duplicated files mismatching parts" case during the check ? And finally one last question : how to know the physical path of a file seen in the pool ? (i.e. when browsing the pool, how to know on which physical disk is a file located ?) Thank you a lot for the time you spend to answer to me.

Hello, Sorry if this case has already been treated (I didn't see exactly the same problem in the forum). I bought DrivePool which fits my needs. I created a pool with several disks with the following options : - no balancing - no file duplication which screenshots are joined (cf. 1.jpg, 2.jpg). When I add a new disk to the pool according to the suitable procedure (https://wiki.covecube.com/StableBit_DrivePool_Q4142489), DrivePool starts to remeasure the pool, then checks it, which seems understandable. But during the check I get the message of unconsistent file duplication (cf. 3.jpg), despite the fact that I did not allow file duplication. Then once everything finished, I still have a pie chart showing 7.07GB of duplicated files (cf. 4.jpg) while I don't see anything duplicated in the per folder duplication screen (except of course the metadata). I also see 30.4GB of "other" files while every file of each disk is supposed to have been transfered into the pool. Is this normal ? Thank you for your help.