It weirds me out that linking to a file in an email is starting to become the new attaching a file to an email. It isn’t that I’ve never done this, but it seems like it’s the default for my students—even for file types that I don’t think of as cloud-specific.

@spgreenhalgh am I missing a subtlety here?

@spgreenhalgh aahh yes … another development is that the email gateways keep stripping attachments .. so a link is ‘safer’ .. in apple land also if your file is over a certain size, Apple will ask to store it in the cloud rather than send as an attachment.

That all said … another thought … let’s say that your student has to have a submission sent to you by midnight on Friday .. an email is sent within the time .. linked to a doc … and then over the weekend they continue working and developing the thesis .. quietly replacing the file in the cloud with the new one … sorry.. I’m a suspicious S.O.B.