http://www.expandrive.com/expandrive
Mount Dropbox as a network drive. Smart local cache. Access the data on demand without syncing the repo in first. Also supports gdrive, s3, sftp, onedrive, box and more.
Makes a 1TB account make a lot more sense if you only have a 128GB SSD. Use selective sync with the primary client to only sync a portion of your Dropbox. Then use ExpanDrive to offload the rest and access it as needed.
1. He said product, so it's probly not free. I wonder how much it costs?
2. Scrolls through the whole page I don't see a breakdown of price. Hmmmm
3. ctrl-f "$" Ahh, I see it says upgrade pricing is $24.99. Wait, does it cost that much, or is that a special "upgrade only" price?
4. looks around on the page more Ahhh, there's a store link, I hope it lists the price there!
5. Ok, so the price is $50 for a single-user license. Why was that so hard to find?
I don't mean to be rude with these remarks; your product seems perfectly relevant and it's awesome if it works as you say. But as a customer, I found that a bit confusing and I thought you as the business owner may want some feedback about one particular users experience.
A random example: The people who don't download your software because they can't find the price might think very negatively about your product.
If that doesn't hurt your profit, shouldn't you still do it?
Please take this as a compliment, but I didn't realize you needed to "plug" ExpanDrive. I sort of assumed that it was produced by a large company. Anyway, thank you for a wonderful piece of software, and for continually developing it.
Is Yosemite currently supported? Would it make sense to support iCloud Drive too?
The issue is that products like ExpanDrive make all online storage drives to which you have to copy first, and upstream is still relatively slow even in countries with cheap high bandwidth downstream. It's still just FTP with a nicely integrated interface.
The ideal would be something that keeps the files locally until they have been synced in the background, and then removes the local copies whilst still allowing you to access them in the same way as if they were local copies. I.e., placing them in your cloud drive is instant, even though it actually takes a while for them to be transferred.
No, that's not an easy problem to solve, but anyone who does solve it will get my money.
(Really awesome would be if it intelligently kept local copies available based on usage and available space. The bottom line is: not having to consciously worry about where to put the files.)
+ Any plans for an iOS version?
iOS version is almost done. Tried to get it out for iOS 8 launch, but didn't quite get there.