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Chris R.70
10 years agoNew member | Level 1
Desktop access without syncing.
Hello. I see it mentioned a few times previously, but am wondering if there is any active development on a way to access Dropbox files from the desktop without either syncing or using the web app...b...
- 8 years ago
This thread is YEARS out of date Andrey - Dropbox themselves have been doing it now for awhile. Its called 'Smart Sync' which you can read about https://help.dropbox.com/desktop-web/smart-sync
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Dave C.5
10 years agoHelpful | Level 7
The ability to host remote files is ABSOLUTELY possible on all 3 OS's WIN,OSX,NIX.
The current difficulty exists only with mounting as a folder on an existing drive.
To quickly complete this dropbox would only need to change styles from a folder to a drive letter.
They could still option to also store files in the folder and have those and the cloud files appear on the "web" drive, and mount it as a network drive as having the folder would leave multiple agrees points to the data. Or store the localized files in there own data file and present only the "web" drive as a local mounted drive.
You could designate cloud or local on any file, and also have some algorithmic code for what to maintain locally (heavy use files)
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