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So how does this work with stuff like virus scanners or text-searches that read all the bytes of all the files in a hierarchy?

Does it load up all the files locally and then LRU-discard them only to load them all up again the next time the virus-scanner runs?

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Would also be curious to know how this would work with something like Lightroom that can operate on pre-computed downsampled versions of the RAW originals.

If this would allow me to keep the original image files in the cloud and only pull down the ones I want to work with, that would be awesome! I have the downsampled images on my laptop now and the originals on an external hard drive that's backed up to the cloud, but it would obviously be a lot more convenient to have the hard drive hold the backup.

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