Dropbox Project Infinite is like a TARDIS for your files
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The rise of SSDs has brought about a small revolution in the speed and responsiveness of PCs, but those drives' capacities can be an obstacle for folks with huge collections of files. That's especially true on entry-level laptops or tablets, where 32GB, 64GB, or 128GB of storage is fairly common. Dropbox and other cloud services offer a way around those capacity limits by offering tons of cloud storage, but syncing files to a local folder from those cloud services still eats up disk space.
Today, Dropbox is previewing a way around this problem. Its "Project Infinite" feature puts shortcuts to remote files in the user's local Dropbox folder, allowing the user to see those files ...