Stricter recognition of duplicates - different names query

DEVONthink
1

I may have imagined it, but I am sure in DT3 if I had ‘stricter recognition of duplicates’ selected and the documents had the same content but different names, then they would not show as duplicates?

In DT4, if I copy a document and rename it, it is showing as a duplicate even though one is named ABC and the other EFG.

FYI - The document(s) are MS Word. DT4.01

I could be wrong, as the help reads that it is only considering the hash of the contents (in which case they are the same).

2

The handling is actually the same in both versions, the name (and other metadata) do not matter.

3

The easiest way to think about stricter recognition of duplicates. DEVONthink considers:

  • Are these files the same size?
  • Are they the same file type?
  • Is a hash of the content the same ?
4

Thanks for confirming. Poor memory on my part :slightly_smiling_face: