Dropbox missing from finder sidebar

About one week after upgrading a macbook with a new SSD and clean install of Mountain Lion, I suddenly lost all of my finder sidebar items except the icon of my computer. I was also unable to check any options in the Finder prefs to get these to show back up. I deleted two Finder preference system plist files recommended from the support community and that got all of my Apple sidebar items working again. However, I no longer have a sidebar item for dropbox and cannot figure out how to get it back. Am I going to have to just uninstall dropbox and reinstall it? Quite the PIA.

nevermind, just dragged the silly folder back to the sidebar and all is well again.…sorry for mindless post

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