There is a free 2-week trial that you download from their website. I'm not connected with ExpanDrive other than as a customer. That's not necessarily "right" or "wrong" behavior on Dropbox's part, it's just how it works, and it's important to understand the difference between telling Dropbox what to sync (which isn't what you are doing) and telling Dropbox what NOT to sync (which IS what you are doing). Any files which are in your Dropbox folder but NOT in any sub-folder will always sync. Any new folders (F G H I J etc) will sync. Any new folders in A B or E will not sync. Under Free up space on this PC, note the amount of. ) Select PC and devices, and then select Disk space. (If youre using a mouse, point to the lower-right corner of the screen, move the mouse pointer up, click Settings, and then click Change PC settings. That means that folders C and D will sync. Swipe in from the right edge of the screen, tap Settings, and then tap Change PC settings. Using Selective Sync, you tell Dropbox to Not Sync folders A B and E. Imagine this: You have 5 folders in your Dropbox folder: A B C D E. You are not telling Dropbox which files and folders to sync. When you use Selective Sync, you are tell Dropbox which folders NOT to sync. The only "gotcha" is that Dropbox's "Selective Sync" feature is a little confusing. I am doing this now with my 1 TB Dropbox account, and it has been working very well for me. The sole difference is that managing cloud space through ExpanDrive is to browse.
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But with ExpanDrive you can always access your full Dropbox whenever you want from any Mac that you want. This application gives you more control over the cloud than web browsing. You can use "Selective Sync" to choose which folders from your Dropbox will sync to your Macs, staying within the limits of each hard drive. The easiest way to do this is to use ExpanDrive(*) which will allow you to "mount" your Dropbox just as if it was an external drive.
However, you can access your Dropbox data even when it isn't on your computer. I think that Dropbox can be the solution that you want, but you can't get around the fact that your hard drive is only 500 GB.