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by Dylan16807 4997 days ago
It does do that; I don't understand what you think it'll fix when it comes to multiple clients.

Do you want Dropbox to make a ghost entry with the contents and the hash, then start transferring it over LAN right away? That's going to be confusing when a ghosted file doesn't behave the same as a normal unsynced file. Especially if you start doing collaborative work and the version history is broken because that's cloud-based.