618: Type System Says No

794.23 - 809.658 John Siracusa

you will take five times the space for those five files instead of just the one times the space that it's taking on your drive. That's what he's talking about, about drives growing or whatever, like migrating to a new Mac, for instance. If you have tons of clones in your drive and you migrate to a new Mac and it doesn't reproduce the clones, your stuff might not all fit on the thing.