File is hard-link

[PeterRHah278]

Trying to Publish Photos using Hard Drive Service but get the error:

Failed to process image: File is hard-link (1)

Checking the folder to where the file should be going there are tmp folders created.

Using latest version of LrC on a 2021 MacBook Pro (M1)

[dj_paige]

Is "hard-link" a translation to English from some other language? If so, what was the original wording in that other language?

[PeterRHah278]

No, its a message in English!

[dj_paige]

Okay, sorry, I never saw this message before, so I don't know what it means.

You are telling us the exact word-for-word message, right? Nothing has been changed?

[JohanElzenga]

Hard links is what Apple Time Machine creates in its backups. You haven't (re)linked the catalog to images on a Time Machine backup, have you? You should never use files directly in such a backup, but always use Time Machine to restore files if and when needed.

[PeterRHah278]

It turns out the directory that images are kept in was being synced to Google Drive. removing the synch has cleared the issue!

Peter H