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40GB (movie in Photos) + 40GB (saved file) = 80GB > 64GB total storage space on device. Hardlinks are the most straightforward way of accomplishing this. It co
by worstspotgain 2y ago
40GB (movie in Photos) + 40GB (saved file) = 80GB > 64GB total storage space on device.
Hardlinks are the most straightforward way of accomplishing this. It could be something more complex like APFS container trickery or masqueraded softlinks or some such, but they may lead to the same bug anyways.
- steve1977 2y agoAh I thought "save a 40GB video on a device" meant saving it once (not in Photos and somewhere else)
- ianburrell 2y ago"Save to Files" on iPhone doesn't mean download but to save outside of Photos in Files. It makes sense to do hardlink since that doesn't duplicate storage, but deletion in Photos or Files leaves the other alone. I'm not sure if sharing to other places also makes a hardlink copy, but that would make sense.