I would love to have this on Insync! Does it sound feasible or a huge headache to implement?
https://blogs.dropbox.com/business/2016/04/announcing-project-infinite/
Luis
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From a first look on Windows, this is implemented with NTFS sparse files [1] and a file system minifilter. The sparse files act as placeholders so that you can browse your entire Dropbox structure. When you access a file, the minifilter sees that and starts fetching the data from Dropbox servers in the background. You can think of it as HSM [2]
on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11571813
My guess is it would require C++/C# programming skills, besides Python integration. This for Windows. Probably a year or so (completely uninformed guess). Someone made the same something similar for Windows, but unless it deals in byte ranges, it is probably not very useful.