Enhanced techniques for copying cloud stored files

A computer-implemented method comprising:

• determining a local electronic folder structure that includes at least a set of dehydrated files associated with content data that is absent from a local drive of a client device;
• receiving, at a client device, selection data indicating an individual dehydrated file, of the set of dehydrated files, to copy to a destination path within the local electronic folder structure;
• generating, based on the selection data, a dehydrated file copy of the individual dehydrated file at the destination path within the local electronic folder structure at the client device;
• and
• causing, based on the selection data, a file hosting platform to initiate a file copy operation within a cloud database, the file copy operation including:
• identifying, within the cloud database, an individual hydrated file that is a hydrated counterpart to the individual dehydrated file of the local electronic folder structure;
• and
• copying a portion of the content data that corresponds to the individual hydrated file to generate, within the cloud database, a hydrated file copy to serve a hydrated counterpart to the dehydrated file copy.

A client device comprising:

• a local drive;
• one or more processors;
• a memory in communication with the one or more processors, the memory having computer-readable instructions stored thereupon which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the client device to:
• determine a local directory structure that includes a set of dehydrated files associated with first content data that is absent from the local drive and a set of hydrated files associated with second content data that is stored on the local drive;
• receive selection data that indicates an individual file from the local directory structure, and a destination path within the local directory structure to generate a file copy of the individual file;
• determine a hydration status of the individual file to dynamically adjust a file copy operation for copying the individual file at a file hosting platform, wherein the hydration status indicates whether content data of the individual file is stored in the local drive of the client device;
• and
• based on the hydration status indicating that the individual file is dehydrated at the local drive, transmit at least a source file ID blob to the file hosting platform to cause the file hosting platform to:
• identify a first hydrated counterpart, to the individual file, that is stored in a cloud database;
• and
• generate, in the cloud database, a second hydrated counterpart to the file copy by copying the first hydrated counterpart.