New aspect ratio crop.

I have a PC using Windows 7.  Today I have upgraded Lightroom 5 from Lightroom 4.  When using the new Aspect Ratio crop the guides appear as expected.  When I go to the top centre area of the crop, instead of getting the black lines with the arrows (as you do with the corners) all I get are two white arrows. This means I can only drag the entire crop box to a smaller size.  The line will not move down to the aspect guide as you expect.  Can someone inform me as to what the issue is? 

If i understand your problem correctly, you have to unlock the padlock in the crop tool to get this behavior.

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