Dropbox\'s new magical placeholders save you hard drive space
Junyu\'s Recommendations发表于 2016-04-27 01:24:34
Dropbox is previewing a new feature that will make owners of small laptop hard drives very happy. Codenamed Project Infinite, Dropbox is planning to enable desktop placeholders for files stored on the cloud storage service. If you’ve got 20GB of Dropbox storage then you’d typically sync that all to your desktop to get immediate access to your files, but Project Infinite will just produce shortcuts to your files that don’t use up any local storage space.
While files will look like they’re still stored locally, a cloud icon indicates they’re actually still stored on Dropbox’s servers. In a demo, Dropbox notes you can choose to sync specific files and folders to have them stored locally, and any remote files will be fetched immediately as…
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