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 >>>>>> >>>>>> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> >>>>>> >>>>>> To reply to this post, please address your message to >>>>>> mac-access@mac-access.net >>>>>> >>>>>> You can find a monthly formatted archive of all messages posted to >>>>>> the Mac-Access forum at the following URL: >>>>>> <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> >>>>>> >>>>>> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, >>>>>> virus and worm-free! >>>>>> >>>>>> Please remember to update your membership options periodically by >>>>>> visiting the list website at: >>>>>> <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> >>>>> >>>>> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> >>>>> >>>>> To reply to this post, please address your message to >>>>> mac-access@mac-access.net >>>>> >>>>> You can find a monthly formatted archive of all messages posted to the >>>>> Mac-Access forum at the following URL: >>>>> <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> >>>>> >>>>> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus >>>>> and worm-free! 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