How does Sharing work?

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I’m just starting with Nextcloud and have questions about sharing. Let’s say I have a few GB of photos. I would like to share some of the photos with other people on my own Nextcloud instance. How does this sharing actually work? Is a copy of the photos created so that the same photos now take up twice the space? Or is only a link/reference to the original created? I don’t want to waste space unnecessarily by sharing.

Then I noticed that symlinks are probably not supported. However, most of my images are on a separate partition. Do bind-mounts work as a workaround?

With the various occ commands, does the user matter? In other words, does it matter whether I execute them with the root user or www-data? Can i block access, when i accidentally use the root user?

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Hey @nofferel welcome to the community :waving_hand:

you did see Support template. Please use this when you request support? That gives us a good idea of what system you’re running so that we don’t have to guess about details :+1: and it makes it easier to point you in the right direction.

this is a great place to start as a user…

if you’re an admin, this would be your best bet …

we despise telling people to RTFM, but we are just guessing… :winking_face_with_tongue:

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No problem. I have already my answers in the meantime. I first had posted them to reddit, but got a lot of error messages, that cant add a post. But obviously the post was published after all, including the appropriate answers. Thank you anyway. Didn’t really want to have this twice. Sorry.

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