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I've always liked those briefcase icons but could never figure out what they did.



They were early two-way synced folders. [0] Like the idea of Dropbox et all, but for anything Windows supported. FTP, Samba, another physical drive, or just another local location.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Briefcase_(Microsoft_Windows)


My first computer had Windows 95 and I had no idea what it did either until now.

https://www.howtogeek.com/396628/what-was-the-windows-briefc...




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