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Situation: i mount a hdd (full of movies) and edit path in shares that links to this hdd.
Then activate the "use pool" and force a greyhole -fsck.
Waited till its done.

Now i tried following:
Add new hdd with files and created a new share (name="movies2") same procedure with adding them to the pool.
After that i want the links to move from "movies2" to "movies" but after greyhole --fsck the links removed.

What can i do?

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7. Once fsck is done, your data has now been moved into the Greyhole storage pool (in the drives you selected in Shares > Storage Pool). All that should be left in the previous location of your data (/media/External Drive/Movies from the previous example) should be symbolic links pointing to the new file copies. If the previous location is just empty directories (no symlinks), do not panic. This is normal if your previous location is an NTFS or FAT partition (drive).
8. Move all those directories / symlinks from there into the correct folders in /var/hda/files/share_name
9. Back in the Amahi dashboard, edit the path of the shares once again, and put back /var/hda/files/share_name (i.e. the folders where you moved the symbolic links).
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What is the best way to do this?
Mount the hdd locally and copying the folder manually from share to share is not the result. it copies the hole thing again....

You can't just move movies2 links into the movies share. That won't work because the Greyhole database still thinks all those files should be in movies2, not movies, and thus it will remove the symlinks from movies, and re-create them in movies2.
You should have changed the movies share path to the location of your second HDD, and you should then have run --fsck.
All your files from both hard drives would then be together in the movies share.

To fix, you'll need to mount both movies and movies2 shares (you can mount them locally on the HDA if you'd like), then move the files from movies2 to movies.