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Questions about Sync w/Google Drive - Shortcuts/Links/Files-Folders Added to Multiple Locations?
Google Drive has a nice feature to allow you to link / short-cut / add-to a file or folder in multiple folders at the same time (Shift z when a file/folder is selected brings up the "Add to" dialog,...
Well I'll start to answer my own question... its 2Tb... looks like the ReadyNAS Sync w/Google Drive makes a *copy* of each folder that on gDrive is simply a sym-link/add-to ... taking how ever many times the space as their are sym-linked folders links on the ReadyNAS necessary.
Next step is for me to try and save 1.5Tb of space by manually putting in some symlinks and see if ReadyNAS Sync with w/Google Drive will respect these.
(Its worth noting that Google's own Backup & Sync software for desktops doesn't implement symlinks locally (despite Macs, Windows and Unix file systems having this functionality). Worse on Windows Backup & Sync won't follow symlinks - it just ignores them actually. This significantly adds to download time/bandwidth and of course diskspace. Sigh. )
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