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nitinagg on April 12, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google Drive: Shortcuts replacing files and folder...

So dropbox always deduped data at it’s backend without any such user facing change. How is this better than that?

sanderjd on April 12, 2022 [–]

This is unrelated to that. It isn't about de-duping data, it's about symbolic links ("shortcuts") vs. hard links ("multi-parenting"). You can still make copies of files as usual, and the content can be de-duped (or not) transparently to users.

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