This special remote type stores file contents in directory. One use case for this would be if you have a removable drive that you want to use it to sneakernet files between systems (possibly with [[encrypted|encryption]] contents). Just set up both systems to use the drive's mountpoint as a directory remote. Setup example: # git annex initremote usbdrive type=directory directory=/media/usbdrive/ encryption=none # git annex describe usbdrive "usb drive on /media/usbdrive/"