The ice and snow are gone and I have my dropbox files back, now it is back to work. Lately I have only been able to do any work at the office, getting in 3 hours before anyone else and use a stinking 32bit Dell that they call our ‘High-end’ Engineering computers.
Getting the dropbox files back turned out to be just a matter of un-linking the computer from dropbox while online and it set itself up again correctly. I don’t have a clue what went wrong but I am happy they are back.