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tom meagher

Project Infinite by Dropbox — Access all the files on Dropbox without having to sync

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Ryan Hoover
"Project Infinite will enable users to seamlessly and securely access all their Dropbox files from the desktop, regardless of how much space they have available on their hard drives. Everything in the company’s Dropbox that you’re given access to, whether it’s stored locally or in the cloud, will show up in Dropbox on your desktop. If it’s synced locally, you’ll see the familiar green checkmark, while everything else will have a new cloud icon."
Much much needed.
Simon Keane
Ok great! Now when's it launching?
Tom Bielecki
I hope this is available to everyone not just corporates
Marius Masalar
Smart answer to OneNote's implementation on Windows, but unless I'm missing it there doesn't seem to be a way to "put the file back in the cloud" after you've summoned it to your desktop. Would be nice to have that.
Henrik Berggren
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@mostlymarius That will be available as well.
Brian Bradac
@henrikberggren @mostlymarius What's the timeline for availability? Would be interested in trying it out.
Marius Masalar
@henrikberggren Awesome news, thanks! Looking forward to taking it out for a spin when it's ready. :)
Pietro Blu Giandonato
The on demand or selective cloud sync functionality is already provided by the amazing odrive service, that can also manage all the most known cloud services out there https://www.odrive.com
Ankush Dharkar
@rrhoover @nivo0o0: Check out @pietroblu's comment about odrive. This works on Dropbox, Google Drive, Amazon Cloud Drive, every one of them! I have an unlimited cloud storage on Amazon and I use odrive to access it and sync only the folders I need, just like the feature dropbox is showing off. Non-synced files exist as placeholders, which can be opened with a simple double-click
Moritz Kobrna
oh wow! wonder how it will work on large video files? can you start watching the movie before its completely synced? will it behave like a stream? 😁
Ariella
@duran_tech I've been using Odrive for a while now for multiple Dropbox accounts, 2 Google Drive accounts, and box. It's very useful
Mario Rossi
@neuling2k I use odrive too... works perfectly! Multi account, as other states
Bo Wang
AWESOME! But I hope this isn't just available to the Dropbox Business users?
Tom
Just in time for apple's acquisition party.
Alec P
I finally have a reason to use Dropbox again. Dropbox has been idle on features for so long. This is exactly what they needed.
Zoli
Freakin about time dropbox. I've been using selective sync for years because of their limitations. This is great news in the wake of the Bitcasa shutdown.
Jordan Mary
I would stay with dropbox if they launch this soonish (6-9 months). Otherwise, I'm not keen on sticking around... They keep trying to upsell me from Pro to Business even though I'm a freelancer with no team... They just money hungry!
Niv Dror
This solves a very real problem that I run into constantly 🙏
Hugo 😺
WOW, awesome news. The end of the hard drive race. We'll not need lot of space anymore.
Eytan Buchman
This would be amazing with a Chromebook!
Dov Quint
About time! Big big deal.
Dave Gámez
Great News!
Glenn Berkshier
Is this available now? Will it be a feature in all Dropbox plans?
Palak Zatakia
Woah! Woah! Woah! :O
Alexandre Mouriec
I need that !! Great work Dropbox Team !! Remind me a bit of Lima.
Mark Osborne
Awesome! Greatly needed. What Bitcasa should have been.
Cole Mercer
Nice! Next let us use external drives with dropbox 😇
✎ Andrew Warner
@colemercer are you sure you can't do that? I have dropbox on a second drive. (It's a built-in drive, but not the main one.) You can change where Dropbox stores its folder.
Cole Mercer
@andrewwarner I mean detachable external drives. If you put your dropbox folder on there, it deletes your files from the cloud when you disconnect it.