Dropbox/cloud storage question (help i am feeling like a big dummy)

i have used iDisk in the past and now use drobpox and for some reason my brain has never allowed me to understand how to handle an issue with dropbox and (kind as they are) my previous inquiries to the dropbox folks have never cleared this up for me. it /seems/ like it is a practical question with real and serious consequences but i am feeling particularly thick about it and am always stuck like a deer in the headlights when i run into it. anyone able and willing to walk me past this?
here is the scenario:
i have moved data onto dropbox from either my desktop machine or from my laptop machine. it is hours and hours later and i am now on the laptop and i see a red X on the dropbox icon.
can you please explain to me in detail what i need to do at this point? for instance, i don't know whether i moved a large folder with subfolder and files and subfiles and whether this included other un-nested folders or other un-nested files and i am confused as to what the red X means.
i mean, presumably if i buy additional storage all the files will be synced up on dropbox and accessible from my two computers and the data that i MOVED from the computers (and that put me over the limit) will not be on the computer that i MOVED it from?!
what happens if i /don't/ upgrade?
can you please tell me how i handle this assuming i don't pay dropbox to make more space?
i mean - i guess all the data is there but - well but what??
- jon

When you move a file to Dropbox you are actually moving it to a folder on your Mac called 'Dropbox'. Dropbox then syncs this folder to the server.
If you put more data in the folder than your limit, Dropbox won't sync it. The files will simply stay there - they aren't in Dropbox, they are on your Mac. If you move the excess files out syncing will start again. So what you propose will work.
In this situation there are some files in your Dropbox folder which are also on the server, and some - those over the limit - which aren't. If you move the latter out of the folder then no change has been made. If you move some of the files which have been synced, those files will be removed from Dropbox and if this brings you under the limit syncing will resume.

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for some reason my brain has never allowed me to understand how to handle an issue with dropbox and (kind as they are) my previous inquiries to the dropbox folks have never cleared this up for me. it /seems/ like it is a practical question with real and serious consequences but i am feeling particularly thick about it and am always stuck like a deer in the headlights when i run into it. anyone able and willing to walk me past this?
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i have moved data onto dropbox from either my desktop machine or from my laptop machine. it is hours and hours later and i am now on the laptop and i see a red X on the dropbox icon.
can you please explain to me in detail what i need to do at this point? for instance, i don't know whether i moved a large folder with subfolder and files and subfiles and whether this included other un-nested folders or other un-nested files and i am confused as to what the red X means.
i mean, presumably if i buy additional storage all the files will be synced up on dropbox and accessible from my two computers and the data that i MOVED from the computers (and that put me over the limit) will not be on the computer that i MOVED it from?!
what happens if i /don't/ upgrade?
can you please tell me how i handle this assuming i don't pay dropbox to make more space?
i mean - i guess all the data is there but - well but what??
- jon

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