Newbie question: I am trying to work with tags across Devonthink, Finder, and my Markdown files. I read in the documentation that if I apply a tag within DT to a file, DT creates a replicant of it.
I worried that meant the file would now take up twice as much space. But then I read more about replicants, and nowhere did I see file size mentioned.
In trying to understand replicants, it struck me that perhaps they are like memory pointer in C (or C++, or C#, or whatever ). Is that accurate? If so, the space taken would be pretty minimal, I assume.
There is no extra space consumed, and yes replicants are similar to pointers or UNIX hard links.
I read in the documentation that if I apply a tag within DT to a file, DT creates a replicant of it.
Also, you must be reading an old version of the manual as we no longer refer to tagged documents as “creating replicants”. The proper (and less confusing) terminology is “creating a reference” and tag groups contain “item references”.
). Is that accurate? If so, the space taken would be pretty minimal, I assume.