[TYPO3-dam] Referencing files instead of copying

[Robert Markula]

Robert Markula wrote:
> 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?

Oops, not exactly the right list where I wanted to post to (typo3.dev).
Sorry,
Ro