Dropbox Project Infinite

Re:Dropbox Project Infinite by btown on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @10:26AM (#11572114)

Could Dropbox detect repeated access patterns from the same process, and/or whitelist processes as known "searchers," and start returning blank files? This seems like the kind of problem only a unicorn would dare to tackle, but as luck would have it...?

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Re:Dropbox Project Infinite by serge2k on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @02:18PM (#11574297)

So search is broken in these directories?

That seems like a lousy tradeoff.

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Re:Dropbox Project Infinite by mjs7231 on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @02:49PM (#11574521)

You want to save space by not having data on your local system but use a local search to look in the contents of files not on that system? You can't have your cake and eat it too.

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Re:Dropbox Project Infinite by borski on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @03:36PM (#11574891)

Sure you can: index it once, and then stream it forevermore.

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Re:Dropbox Project Infinite by ctoshok on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @04:10PM (#11575186)

except remote contents can change

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Re:Dropbox Project Infinite by SturgeonsLaw on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @07:08PM (#11576505)

Store a hash or checksum in the index and also allow the remote API to return the hash/checksum to see if the file has changed

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