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    <p>Some programs can do that. MS Office, for example, can save straight to Sharepoint locations, together with full blown tree browsing.</p> <p>Some network file exchange protocols are available in Windows (Linux, MacOS) as redirectors. That means that they present themselves to the userland programs as ordinary filesystems. SMB/CIFS is the prime example, although probably no one uses SMB over Internet as-is. FTP, even though folder browsing is supported in Explorer alongside regular folders, is not a filesystem. Sometimes you can channel SMB over Internet via an encrypted channel, like a VPN or SSH - this requires control over both client and server.</p> <p>Some cloud storages expose an API that a program could use to browse to and save directly to the cloud. Dropbox and Google Drive work that way. Anyone can write a program that saves/loads to Dropbox, or browses files on Dropbox. But it has to be done explicitly - you're targeting Dropbox, not just any cloud storage.</p> <p>Dropbox also provides a store-and-forward solution - you save to a designated local folder which is eventually synced up with Dropbox.</p> <p>With a <em>generic</em> program (not written to be cloud-aware) and a <em>generic</em> cloud storage (incapable of emulating a filesystem), however, you're out of luck.</p> <p>For sharing specifically <em>sources</em> over the 'Net, the preferred way to do that is with an online source control system. There are public Subversion repositories out there; most IDEs can talk to those. But the commit to SVN step is usually manual. A local folder is still involved; it's a save-then-upload by other name.</p> <p>By the way, having your source location in the cloud would be a considerable performance penalty. Internet is fast these days, but still no match for a hard drive.</p>
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