Using DropBox to free up SSD space

I haven't played around with DropBox (or similar cloud services), so I'm not 100% up to speed, but I have a general idea how they work.
Here's what I'd like to do.
The majority of my documents (Pages and Keynote), I only need while at work. However, there is the rare occasion I might need access to them at other times.
I was thinking of moving all my documents to an external drive at work and sync that drive with DropBox, so if I'm away from work, I could still get access to them. That part I think I understand.
Am I correct in my understanding that with DropBox you end up with 2 copies of the file -- one on your local/physical drive and one in the cloud -- so that (whether you are using an internal or external drive), you aren't really saving drive space?
I'm guessing in this regard, Google Docs is "cloud only", but I'd still need to download the document to work in Pages, then reupload to the cloud? (I don't want to use the Google text editor).
So do I understand things correctly?
Thanks for wading through my ramblings...

Hi - thanks for replying. I want to free up real estate as you put it but with the faciity to bring them back with one click to make adjustents and then toggle them back again.
This is easy in Cubase e.g. condense all percussion tracks or drums say, into a folder. This frees up work space and adds the folder in the mixer window for rough mixing. If one instrument needs editing you just unpack the folder with one click, make teh adjustments and then toggle the folder back again.
It seems in Logic I have to pack the folder, then delete or hide the tracks individually. Then if I want to bring them back to edit,unpacking will recreate the tracks so I have to repeat the process - long-winded.
I'm new to Logic - perhaps the Groups facility may offer what I want?

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Hi - thanks for replying. I want to free up real estate as you put it but with the faciity to bring them back with one click to make adjustents and then toggle them back again.
This is easy in Cubase e.g. condense all percussion tracks or drums say, into a folder. This frees up work space and adds the folder in the mixer window for rough mixing. If one instrument needs editing you just unpack the folder with one click, make teh adjustments and then toggle the folder back again.
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king0earth wrote:
I have 2 application support folders:
Macintosh HD / Library / Application Support
Macintosh HD / Users / [home folder] / Library / Application Support
Is this supposed to like this?
Yes.
Did I create a redundancy by migrating files from Snow Leopard?
No.
Would it be safe to relocate these huge folders? Or better yet the library that contains them?
No and definitely no. Deleting one or another of these library folders would be a very bad idea and would screw up your Mac a lot. In general it is a good idea not to mess around with system files. These files are necessary for running your apps. These two Libraries are at different levels in terms of your OS and do different things.

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I thought I would post this as I spent a lot of time finding the solution and came across a lot of threads for the same problem, so hope it helps some people out. I confess that this is not my work but a few cobbled together solutions from others that worked for me.
If your HD or (as in my case SSD) is reporting via Finder or Omnidisk sweeper or similar App that the used space is greater than the files that you can account for (ie my 250GB SSD was showing in Finder as having 134Gb of used space but the sum of all the files reported by Omni disc sweeper, Finder and Disk inventory X only came to 64GB with just over 50Gb of free space: hence 70GB that I could not account for or find. It seems it is usually due to hidden files and particularly those related to mobile backups from Time machine. However, knowing this and finding the pesky hidden files took me a lot of googling and a fair amount of time, repairing disk permissions and disks had no effect whatsoever, so here is the solution if your boot drive seems to have used space that you cannot accont for, or "lost space":
First of all to find the missing data:
It is usually in hidden Files. To view, you need to run OmniDisk Sweeper or similar from the root directory (very important as it will not show all the hidden files or other users files if run as I guess most people - myself included - run it, that is from their user directory) You also need to be logged in as an Administrator. Type the following into Terminal:
sudo /Applications/OmniDiskSweeper.app/Contents/MacOS/OmniDiskSweeper
You will then be required to enter your password.
I used OmniDisk Sweeper (free App) with the above command to run it from the root directory, should look something like this, showing all files, hidden or otherwise and file sizes. (Must be run as User with Admin privileges).
In my example there are 68.3 GB taken up by the .MobileBackups file that wont be shown by Omnidisk sweeper or similar App if run from users directory. The .MobileBackups file is a Time machine back up file that will usually be deleted once Time Machine has backed up to an external file. However in my case, I didn't have enough space for the time machine back up so disabled it but then ended up with a hidden file called MobileBackups.Trash that took me ages to find using the above process and then delete (as I will explain in a bit).
See following article to explain further about this step:
http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/
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sudo mv /.MobileBackups.trash /Trashme
From this link:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5802961?tstart=0
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Other useful commands in Terminal
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I hope this is helpful.

LowLuster wrote:
They are not real backups. They are made just in case you accidentally delete a files, that is IF the LSS has backed up that file and or the changes to that file before you deleted it.
Your statement does not define what 'Local Snapshots' are and and the reasons for having them (your syntax is very confusing). From the Apple link, the definition is as follows:
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