Online storage company Dropbox has announced the launch of ‘Project Infinite’, a feature that will keep all user files on Dropbox’s Cloud infrastructure although it will continue to enable its users to see all files that they have quick access permission for on their desktop, irrespective of their geo-location. Dropbox, which claimed last month to have about 500 million users, said in a blog post that Project Infinite was showcased on Tuesday at ‘Dropbox Open London’. The project aimed to “reimagine how people find, access, & collaborate with large amounts of data.”
With Project Infinite, we’re addressing a major issue our users have asked us to solve. The amount of information being created and shared has exploded, but most people still work on devices with limited storage capacity. While teams can store terabyte upon terabyte in the cloud, most individuals’ laptops can only store a small fraction of that. Getting secure access to all the team’s data usually means jumping over to a web browser, a clunky user experience at best.
Project Infinite will enable users to seamlessly & 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 users have been given access to, whether it’s stored locally or in the Cloud, will show up in Dropbox on the desktop. If it’s synced locally, users will see the familiar green checkmark, while everything else will have a new Cloud icon.
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