One source of truth,
streamed on demand.
Your files stay in the cloud as the single master copy. FileStream presents them as an ordinary drive β and pulls only the pieces you touch, exactly when you touch them.
It looks like a local drive
Install the client and your whole shared store appears as a drive in Finder, Explorer, and every app β instantly.
You open a file as normal
Double-click anything. FileStream requests just the bytes the file needs and begins streaming them in milliseconds β no full download, no waiting.
Bytes arrive as you work
As you scrub a video or scroll a document, the bytes you reach stream in on demand and cache locally. Save, and changes go straight back to the one master copy everyone sees.
Think of it like Netflix for your files
You don't download the whole movie to press play β you stream the part you're watching, right now, while the rest stays in the cloud. FileStream does the same for a 4 GB video or a 2 TB project folder: the file feels instant, but it never has to live on your disk.