Re:Dropbox Backup
by smileybarry on Sunday April 17, 2022 @10:20AM
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OneDrive gives you that too, it now defaults to stream-first for all files. Once you open them they're downloaded locally but IIRC they're just cached (unless you check "always available offline" for them).
Sadly, they're still in a OneDrive folder and not a drive, but behind the scenes it is a virtual filesystem sort of thing (Windows calls on OneDrive service to expand the files), and you can fake the drive letter with subst.
There is odrive that converts most cloud storage to placeholder model.
Google Drive gives me that (I pay for it) and all my files are synced across all my devices. My problem is that I do not want one device to be "the owner", I want all devices to be the same because. Unfortauntely Drive doesn't allow that. So on the main device I can access the file in their local path, while in others they are in (for example): G:\Others computers\Laptop\Drive
I hate that the files are inside "Others computers\Laptop", because it makes me feel that if I ever lose the "Laptop" and lose access, I may lose all my files.