Question: ### Problem

My Dropbox context menu is missing in OS X Snow Leopard (10.6.8). While the Dropbox service runs normally, Finder doesn't show the icons and also doesn't give me the ability to browse files on the website or copy the public link.

![](https://i.stack.imgur.com/zgJSJ.png)

### What I've tried

* Removed `~/.dropbox` and `~/Dropbox/.dropbox.cache`
* Reinstalled Dropbox.app (both 1.4.7 stable and 1.5.0 experimental), went through the setup again
* Restarted Finder
* Logged out and back in
* Removed `/Library/DropboxHelperTools` entirely, upon which the installer required me to enter the password and recreated the folder
* Manually run `/Library/DropboxHelperTools/DropboxHelperInstaller`, results in this console output (also with `sudo`):

```
<pid>28642</pid>
usage
<failure> 22

```
* I know now that Dropbox hacks the Finder to insert these icons and context menu items, based on the `FinderLoadBundle` architecture (similar to [this](https://github.com/rianhunter/mach_star)), but manually running the executables inside `FinderLoadBundle.tgz` under *Dropbox.app » Contents » Resources* doesn't do anything either.

All of these I've done over and over again, in random permutations.

### I've made sure that

* Dropbox appears in the *Login Items* under my Account (and I've never touched that)
* *Folder Actions Setup* is enabled under *Keyboard Shortcuts » Services*.
* Everything works fine on a newly created user account.

In any case, I can't get the icons or the menu to appear.

Answer: 
In [this thread](http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=17420), the person reported that Context menu is shown upon restarting the computer. can you please try that? 

of course after install/reinstall :-).
I had the same problem and found that if I quit and restarted the Dropbox application it would work again.

I found that sometimes I would reboot/log out and in and it would work, other times a reboot/log out wouldn't help.