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BUG: Same image gets indexed multiple times when directory contains symlinks/hardlinks
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Description
### Is there an existing issue for this?
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### What happened?
### Describe the bug
When a library includes symbolic links (or hardlinks) to photos, PictoPy appears to index the same underlying image multiple times instead of treating it as one media item.
### Steps to reproduce
1. Create folder `A` with 20 images.
2. Create folder `B` containing symlinks to the same 20 images from `A` (or hardlinks).
3. Add both folders in PictoPy settings.
4. Start scan/indexing.
### Expected behavior
Each physical image should be indexed once (deduplicated by inode/path-resolve/hash strategy), with a single media record in the UI.
### Actual behavior
Duplicate entries appear for the same image content, and indexing/AI tagging runs repeatedly for linked copies.
### Impact
- Slower scans and higher CPU usage
- Duplicate thumbnails/search results
- Larger metadata DB than necessary
### Suggested fix
- Normalize file identity before insert (resolve symlink + stable file identity check).
- Add a unique constraint / duplicate guard in ingestion pipeline.
- Skip AI pipeline when file identity already exists.
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