[TYPO3-dev] Referencing files instead of copying

[Robert Markula]

Hi list,
I dream of something like a install tool option which enables file 
references, so that files are referenced to and not copied. Kasper 
mentioned something like this in december.

This would save quite some disk space as currently all files are copied 
to the uploads/ folder for each record seperately.
Having file references would also make it easy to replace files which 
are referenced from more than one place (just replace the file in 
fileadmin/ and this change is immediately reflected in all records that 
reference to this file).
Plus it would be really cool to see which records reference to a 
specific file :) (the basis for this is already there with the reference 
index table, it just does not work because the records link to the file 
copy in uploads/, not the original file in fileadmin/).

With DAM (and the 'dam_ttcontent' extension) it is only possible to 
enable file references for the tt_content table, not for all extensions 
out-of-the box. I guess enabling file references for all extensions 
would require a change in the core, right?

Cheers,
Ro