On Nov 27, 2019, at 3:26 PM, John Robinson <[email protected]> wrote:

> What are they doing, are they creating and storing an image on their servers? 
>  It just can’t be that the larger file especially is instantly on the DropBox 
> servers. 


Most of these services (DropBox, iCloud, Google, Box, …) create a folder on 
your hard drive that they keep synced with a cloud copy. They locally appear 
instantaneous because you’re only seeing changes to the local folder. The 
service uploads and downloads changes to the cloud copy in the background.

It’s interesting to watch this happen. If you have two computers connected to 
DropBox or iCloud, make changes on one of them and see how long it takes to 
migrate the changes to the other. Both iCloud and DropBox are really quick with 
small files. Google not so much.

L^2

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Lee Larson
[email protected]

‌ Mr. Cole's Axiom: The sum of the intelligence on the planet is a constant; 
the population is growing.  — ‌ J. Cole 
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