Sync solution that pulls files on request only

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Hello,

I’ve been using syncthing on my desktop / laptop / smartphone with great success so far but there’s one thing I’m kind of missing.

I’d like to be able to share a folder with other devices but the files in that folder should only get pulled / synced when they are actually requested. The idea is to share a folder which contains e.g. 1 TB of data which might exceed the storage limitations of my smart phone.

It’d be nice if I could browse that folder on my smart phone while files get pulled only when I access them. Bonus points for an automatic way to discard older files (maybe by LRU?) when a certain quota gets hit.

Is it possible to do that with syncthing? I also take hints to other sync solutions.

Thank you!

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The only way to do this, and only on Android, is to use https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-lite. The app isn’t maintained anymore, however it may still work.