Google Drive: Shortcuts replacing files and folders stored in multiple locations

Re:Google Drive: Shortcuts replacing files and folders store... by sangeeth96 on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @03:33PM (#31007251)

Was this hard-linking only possible when performing an action via the web/app interfaces? Because the wording makes it extremely confusing. Even I thought this was going to affect copies of the same file in multiple places. I don't notice any points in their support doc which tells me otherwise.

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Re:Google Drive: Shortcuts replacing files and folders store... by kevincox on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @03:36PM (#31007301)

I'm not sure how the sync worked. But for your use case I suspect you won't have this problem.

I'm 99% sure that this is talking about "hard links" not "files with the same contents".

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Re:Google Drive: Shortcuts replacing files and folders store... by sangeeth96 on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @03:40PM (#31007342)

Thanks for clarifying and I do think your explanation(s) make sense. Kinda wish it was explicitly stated in the support docs as well.

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Re:Google Drive: Shortcuts replacing files and folders store... by kevincox on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @03:42PM (#31007368)

I definitely see where your confusion is coming from even if I didn't think of that use case initially. It would definitely be a good idea for them to explicitly call out the difference.

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Re:Google Drive: Shortcuts replacing files and folders store... by media-trivial on Thursday April 14, 2022 @04:20PM (#31032749)

There was a keyboard shortcut Shift+Z to add a file to another location (i.e. create a hard-link). Not sure if it still works. The sidebar also has a list of locations that a file is in. Also there are public APIs and documentation for everything.

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