Duplicate files in Finder with NTFS disks
Hello everyone, first of all sorry for my poor english, I'm spanish user 😉
I'm having an issue with NTFS disks. I don't know if it's only with El Capitan, previously I was using Mavericks, Yosemite, Mountain Lion and I don't remember this issue happening. Now I'm using El Capitan 10.11.1.
I have some disks in NTFS format, I use Paragon NTFS for Mac in the latest version (14.1.83) and when I'm browsing the disks in Finder some files are duplicated with exactly the same name, same attributes, properties, owner, extension, etc. They really seems to be same file. The files are duplicated only one time (I mean that the file can appear two times, not three or more). Also it seems to be happening with files and not with directories, but I suspect that probably will affect to directories too.
If I use the Terminal and I go to the disk (/Volumes/name_of_the_disk) and browse and list files of the directories ("ls -la") the files appears only one time, without duplicates. Also I use Double Commander and in this application the files are not duplicated. And when I connect the disks to another machine (for example a Linux Mint Netbook) they are not duplicated.
It seems to be a problem with Finder because in the rest of the test that I've made there are no duplicated files.
I tried to do the next:
- Backup the disks, I copied from NTFS to Mac, and the files that were duplicated in NTFS appears twice in Mac but with different name (and "(2)" at the end of the name if I'm not wrong, I can't remember). So in this case the problem is weaker because the files have two different names.
- Format the disks in Mac (with OS X Plus format) and then copy the files that backed up previously. After when I'm browsing the files only appear one time, so here they are ok.
- Back to format to NTFS (I've used Paragon NTFS or I've formatted in other machines, the problem still remaining). After formatted I copied the files backed up, and when it has finished and I'm browsing the files they appear again twice.
- I tried to clean caches, temp files, etc. with Onyx, I'm not sure if I had to check and specific option, but I'm sure I cleaned so much things 😉. Also I tried to clean "Finder cache" but I googled for it and I didn't found a directory for the Finder cache.
- Showing the inspector in the files on Mac shows the correct files and size, and on NTFS disks shows more number of files and more size.
It is very strange, now I'm supposing that it is due to an issue in Finder because in other machines and other apps they are only showed one time. But I really don't know what is happening. Please I need your help!!! Any help will be appreciated!!!
Thank you all!!!!
iMac (27-inch Mid 2011), OS X El Capitan (10.11.1), Paragon NTFS