An iOS file manager shows a listing, offline files, and upload progress. How would you separate the storage of file metadata from the actual bytes?
Metadata like name, size, modification time, remote id, version, whether a local copy exists, and sync state lives in SQLite or SwiftData rows so the listing draws without any bytes, and the actual file bytes live in a subdirectory of Application Support named by remote id, so a row only points at a path.
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