Can’t the file stay in the same “spot” in storage and be just linked to?
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If a file is copied within the same disk then the head has to jump back and forth between reading and writing. Copy is faster between two separate disks. “Linking” is a distinct action. You can do that on Windows with an Explorer plugin called “Link Shell Extension” or command-line tools. But if you’re asking for a copy, that is what you get. You may want to modify the copy and then it can’t share data anymore.
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