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One of the items on the roadmap is for support of files in iCloud. I assume this would reduce the number of full downloads from the cloud needed for Nitro to work with Finder. As I understand it Apple requires other on-demand syncing to use the same mechanism as iCloud files so hopefully this feature will work for all of them when it does arrive.
In my case I use a Synology NAS and syncing works through the same method, only to the internal main drive. If I have 1Tb of photos on the NAS and a MacBook with just 256Gb SSD this is very useful. At the moment Nitro works quite well with this though thumbnail building will cause the files to be downloaded where they remain till space is needed.
iCloud Drive support means using Apple’s APIs for detecting files and downloading them as needed. Thumbnails may be available without a full download, but I don’t know yet. However, if a file has been edited on machine A over iCloud Drive, and then you view it on machine B, the thumbnail will be still be the original image’s thumbnail until the app can download the original and apply the edits to make a local thumbnail. The thumbnail *could* be stored in the XMP, but XMP is a terribly inefficient format for large binary data, so I don’t put thumbnails there. External / network devices don’t go through the same system as iCloud Drive, so changes for iCloud Drive would not have any effect on the NAS case.
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