What causes duplicate attributes (1) ?

[Stefan Videnov]

After 10 years of experience, reading everything I can find and also watching The Dark Side of Attribute Chaos I still can't figure something to the end.

What are all the scenarios in which attribute dupplicates are created?

The context is teamwork and hotlinks. I know of some cases, but this certainly doesn't explain all of the dupplicates that I am getting. I know that dupplicates appear both when importing attributes and when updating hotlinks. I would love to understand all the causes and whether the causes vary by the type of attribute.

Thank you! ❤️ 

Operating system used: Windows 6008

[Gerry Leonor]

Yes, i think i have an idea of how to fix it. it just struck me that this is one of the rare instance where an Attribute name has priority over an index number -- only because no index number exist yet.