DropBox: Not able to link account

Wow, there may well be some problems interacting here. First, as mdgm suggested, there are some browsers (especially on Windows but I don't want to rule out the Mac here although I've never run into the problem) that won't reflect status changes properly. IE is the major source of problems here but older versions of Firefox did show that problem too.

Next, the scripts managing the different Dropbox daemons are meant to run under the "admin" account. By manually starting/stopping/installing stuff there's a good chance that the ownership of some files needed by the web interface and the daemons has changed which in turn could prevent the whole system from functioning properly. What would be interesting to see is the contents of the /tmp directory. There should be some files that contain the logs of the various deamons talking to the Dropbox master server. If those aren't created or contain nothing the starting/stopping/authenticating will fail. Generally it's a very *bad* idea to try to fix things manually using the "root" account. This is more likely to break things than to fix them.

The same is true for the global /c/Dropbox share. As with other parts of the add-on, it is crucial that the ownership as well as the permissions of that directory match what is expected by the daemons and the Frontview tools. Manually creating the directory is more likely to create problems instead of fixing them. The Dropbobx add-on should create all needed directories for you and if it doesn't that points to a more basic problem preventing the add-on from installing properly.

-Stefan