Comment 3 for bug 822468

> (…) in that I do not find the bug that he describes.

There seems to have been misunderstandings - AFAIU in my comment I describe the same issue (clones of linked bitmap images are not updated when the image has changed on disk) as you do (including the update when duplicating the clone), just that I missed the new workaround with grouping.

> In particular, I cannot confirm any difference in behavior
> between the linked image and its clones.

Did you consider that with limiting the tests to tiled clones, you don't have the original linked image visible to check whether it gets auto-updated when changed on disk externally? The original tile (linked image) is hidden below the first clone in the upper left corner.

Please test with a linked bitmap image and a manually created clone (Alt+D) moved aside to not overlap the original (if the image itself is not auto-updated on Windows, Bug #357646 “Linked image not updated” needs to be reopened IMHO).

Thanks for discovering the workaround to group or ungroup clones to trigger an update of their content.