Odd thing was I didn't see some prefs but I'll get out trash me and try again. 
I don't give up that easily. lol!
On Jul 26, 2011, at 12:27 PM, Jonathan C. Cohn wrote:

> I think the instructions were to reboot bbefore moving the new dropbox into 
> the applications folder.  I suggest you attempt to remove both dropbox 
> applications from the applications folder, reboot, and then proceed.
> 
> If that doesn't work, I expect you will need to clean some preferences.
> 
> JOnathan
> 
> 
> Jonathan C. Cohn
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> On Jul 26, 2011, at 2:14 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote:
> 
>> lol. I'll gt a sighted pair of eyes and see what's going on. If not I really 
>> don't know. I'll have to see what dropbox says on twitter.
>> 
>> take care.
>> On Jul 26, 2011, at 11:04 AM, Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith wrote:
>> 
>>> Sarah;
>>> 
>>> Maybe there's something happening which VO isn't seeing; I honestly don't 
>>> know because it worked here. If you followed those steps, I'm out of ideas. 
>>> I am no expert, I can only tell you what we experienced.
>>> 
>>> Lynne
>>> 
>>> On 26 Jul 2011, at 18:47, Sarah Alawami wrote:
>>> 
>>> I did that. no joy. Ok so now what/
>>> On Jul 26, 2011, at 10:37 AM, Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hello Sarah
>>>> 
>>>> Told you you were doing something different, didn't i! You missed out one 
>>>> vital step: Step 2 should be "Restarted my system after renaming the 
>>>> dropbox.app file to something else.
>>>> 
>>>> Lynne
>>>> 
>>>> On 26 Jul 2011, at 18:24, Sarah Alawami wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hmm. I did the following.
>>>> 
>>>> 1. renamed the old dropbox.app file in my apps folder
>>>> 
>>>> 2. copied the dropbox.app folder from the dmg in to the apps folder.
>>>> 
>>>> 3. control clicked on the dropbox.app file I just copied.
>>>> 
>>>> 4. choose show package contents.
>>>> 
>>>> 5. browsed to contents/macos/dropbox
>>>> 
>>>> 6. opened the file.
>>>> 
>>>> 7. waited for about 2 minutes for the terminal to show up..
>>>> 
>>>> Now I did the same thing with the old dropbox installer and the installer 
>>>> showed up after about 5 or so seconds so not sure what happened..
>>>> 
>>>> Take care.
>>>> 
>>>> On Jul 26, 2011, at 9:59 AM, Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> hello Sarah
>>>>> 
>>>>> What I actually said was that your system must be in some way different 
>>>>> or uyou must be doing something different. That much is obvious I think, 
>>>>> given that others have this working properly. You may not be the only 
>>>>> person for whom it does not work. And I am pretty disappointed that the 
>>>>> DropBox people haven't done a darn thing to fix accessibility in this 
>>>>> release. If there is a difference in your system I' not saying it's your 
>>>>> fault.
>>>>> 
>>>>> What I'm going to do later on tonight is do a total clean install of Lion 
>>>>> on our other MacBook and the first app I will install is DropBox beta. If 
>>>>> it works, I'll let you know precisely what I did, and how.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Lynne
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 26 Jul 2011, at 17:35, Sarah Alawami wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> No it was in a clean install of lion. the public release worked bu the 
>>>>> beta didn't. I sent the dropbox support team the same screenshots via 
>>>>> twitter so we'll see. They gave me the same link you all did  for getting 
>>>>> the beta but I don't see any new threads. Anyone else have any ideas?.
>>>>> On Jul 26, 2011, at 9:29 AM, Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hello Sarah
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 26 Jul 2011, at 17:19, Sarah Alawami wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> • Nope. failed. I just give it a try and I have 2 screenshots here. 1 is 
>>>>>> while I'm waiting for about 2 minutes and 2 is when I quit  the 
>>>>>> terminal. I hope this does not deadline.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> You're obviously the odd-ball here. Most others seem to have managed; so 
>>>>>> there must be something different either about your system or about the 
>>>>>> way you're doing things.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Lynne
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Oh and btw there still is no public links when I right click on a file 
>>>>>> in the public folder.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> anyway try this link out. HOpe it works.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> http://bit.ly/rewDyD
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Take care. and it did work when I installed the public thing so dunno 
>>>>>> why the beta isn't. lol!
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Jul 25, 2011, at 11:46 PM, Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Sarah; see my last post it might help you.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On 26 Jul 2011, at 07:24, Sarah Alawami wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Well I can't install it that way at all. I waited for about 30 seconds 
>>>>>>> and still no dropbox window. I hope I can get this resolved in the 
>>>>>>> morning lol! and I wish they could just come up with a pkg we could 
>>>>>>> run. Arg!
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Take care
>>>>>>> On Jul 25, 2011, at 9:34 PM, Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Hello all
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Apparently this works under Lion so it might save you all some 
>>>>>>>> headaches if you use Drop Box.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> <http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=41644
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Lynne
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