The on-demand downloading will happen in the background and won’t require any additional effort on a user’s part. After it’s been downloaded, a user can edit the file and perform common operations and Dropbox will instantly upload changes to the cloud.Īs evidenced by the promotional video embedded below, Dropbox files that are referenced on a Mac have a tiny cloud icon next to them. is almost full (Mac), then your computer is low on hard drive space. Click the Apple icon at the left of the menu bar on the top of your screen, and select About This Mac from the drop-down menu. With Project Infinite, simply requesting a file will prompt the client to download full contents of the file to a Mac. If you are running out of disk space, you can use selective sync to remove files. First, you should check how much space is available on your Mac. That’s what Project Infinite will be for.
However, selective sync makes any folders that are not marked for syncing unaccessible in the Finder.
Popular cloud-storage startup Dropbox said today at the Dropbox Open London conference that it’s working to let you access your files through the Finder as you normally would, but without taking up storage space on a Mac until they’re actually needed-no matter how small your hard disk, no matter how much stuff’s in your Dropbox.Ĭode-named Project Infinite, the initiative will let you decide which files in your Dropbox will be instantly downloaded and which ones will be referenced.ĭropbox has long had a selective sync feature which makes it easy to cherry-pick Dropbox folders that’ll be synced via the Mac desktop client.
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