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diff --git a/doc/design/assistant/partial_content.mdwn b/doc/design/assistant/partial_content.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..5572811d4 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/design/assistant/partial_content.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +On a regular system, a reasonable simplifying assumption is that all the +files in the folder will be synced to the system. A user might want to +disable syncing of some subdirectories, for eg, archived files. But in +general, things are simpler to understand and implement if all files sync. + +But, an Android gadget probably cannot hold all a user's files. Indeed, +it's likely that old files will be aggressively dropped from the Android +after syncing to elsewhere, in order to keep enough free space on it for +new files. + +There needs to be a way for the user to browse files not on the gadget and +request they be transferred to it. This could be done as a browser in the +web app, or using a subdirectory full of placeholder files (not symlinks; +see [[Android]]) that start transfer of the real file when accessed. |