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-  * To convert a collection's ''collect.cfg'' file to its GS3 equivalent, see [[en:user:gs2_to_gs3#using_a_remote_greenstone_server|here]] for details.+  * To convert a collection's ''collect.cfg'' file to its GS3 equivalent, see [[en:user:gs2_to_gs3|here]] for details.
  
   * When you've built a collection of documents, you may discover that there appears to be a copy of all these documents in the collection's //import//, //archives// and //index// subfolders and wonder whether Greenstone could really be so inefficient with disk space as to keep 3 copies of everything. As it happens though, Greenstone uses **hard-links** both on Linux and **Windows**, in order to keep just one set of your documents. Then it simply hardlinks to these, instead of making copies. By default, Windows doesn't show you when files on your filesystem are hard-linked. If you choose to install the Windows extension application [[http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/hardlinkshellext.html|Link Shell Extension (LSE)]], it will put red arrows on files that are hard linked.   * When you've built a collection of documents, you may discover that there appears to be a copy of all these documents in the collection's //import//, //archives// and //index// subfolders and wonder whether Greenstone could really be so inefficient with disk space as to keep 3 copies of everything. As it happens though, Greenstone uses **hard-links** both on Linux and **Windows**, in order to keep just one set of your documents. Then it simply hardlinks to these, instead of making copies. By default, Windows doesn't show you when files on your filesystem are hard-linked. If you choose to install the Windows extension application [[http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/hardlinkshellext.html|Link Shell Extension (LSE)]], it will put red arrows on files that are hard linked.
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