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BartMan01:
My concern with Windows is the lingering legacy issues with long file names. I use UNC paths for everything when the data is on the network. The only time I fall back to a mapped drive is when I start running in to long file name issues in Windows (and this happens even with Windows 10) and the \\servername\mappedfolder\ bit adds just a bit too much length to the name but z:\ works. This is not an issue with my media files, but it is with some types of data.

I like the idea of some way to identify identical files from a hashing function to find truly identical items.

Castius:
I don't want MC to change paths. I use network paths to hide away the full path.
So i can manage my drive however way i want.

larryrup:
I have been hit with the exact duplicate scenario you reference from time to time, usually when I'm fooling around or moving stuff around.  I have two PC's with MC installed and I often keep trying to use the one hard drive of music for both, primarily so metadata clean up  can be done once and play counts from both PC's count as one unified play count.  I have more trouble trying to accomplish this (many try's at this, but I cannot remember exactly what the problems were...likely win 10 short comings) then removing inadvertent duplicates.  After a while I figured out that a simple column add of the "path", a quick sort and a easy delete of the dup path as an easy fix.  This might be so obvious to a new user.  Why in the hell are sharing and home groups (and to mention start and search) such windows short comings?

Bccc1:
I like the idea, but would prefer the following:

Do the expansion only to check for duplicates and import with original path. For that to work the library paths also would have to be expanded at compare time. I'm not sure how to do that fast enough.
I would like a dialog if the imported file after path expansion seems to be a duplicate. Let me choose if I want to skip those those files or import them with the non expanded path. Default should be skip. Also add a checkbox to not ask again for a) this import or b) in general.

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