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[Alberto Mardegan <alberto.mardegan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/04/2016 16:53, Ken VanDine wrote:
> Content hub attempts to create a link instead of a copy and falls back
> to a copy if the link fails.  The link fails if it's across different
> file systems.  What we really need here is for the destination app that
> is opening the content to send that content to a location it has access
> too on the same device/filesystem.  So we should be creating a link in a
> app specific location on the sdcard to prevent that copy.  This is
> something we need to add support for in the ContentStore API and get
> apps using it.  This is an area we should really address ASAP.

But that wouldn't work if the card is FAT-formatted, right? Not that
anyone should be using that filesystem anyway, but...

In any case, this sounds like a huge improvement!

Ciao,
  Alberto