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What is the reason of supporting multiple parent nodes per file node?

May I know the reason behind the API supporting multiple parent folder nodes in a file node? What is the use case? Isn't most file can only have one parent? If the same file should appear in multiple folders, each of them should be a separate copy of the same file right? Not one file links to multiple folders. Can somebody clarify this to me? Thanks! The model of FILE: "parents": {String...} List of parent folder Ids.
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Probably they tried to eliminate file duplication but failed to do it properly. While you can detect duplication by MD5 and just add new parent if you want to get same file in another folder it will have the same name in all parents.
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Also shared files have additional parent which is shared collection
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