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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...
This thread is YEARS out of date Andrey - Dropbox themselves have been doing it now for awhile.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
I have exactly the same problem. I work in a small lab and we produce lots of high definition images, that occupy lots of space. We want a common server where we can store all the images and have them available when we want them, but with Dropbox we would need to have them all in all the machines, which is not feasible due to hard drive storage limitations, or use the webservice, which does not allow things like dragging files from Dropbox to the server. I have been looking at many other services, but the ones I would call user friendly all have this same fault. An option would be buying a NAS device, but that would limit the storage flexibility that services like Dropbox offer. I am very surprised that, in the business and enterprise packages, they expect people to still have all the files in their own computers, or use a clunky web service.
