Dropbox status: access issues and outage reports

Problems in the last 24 hours

The graph below depicts the number of Dropbox reports received over the last 24 hours by time of day. When the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line, an outage is determined.

Most Reported Problems

The following are the most recent problems reported by Dropbox users through our website.

• Errors (50%)
• Sign in (38%)
• Website Down (13%)

Live Outage Map

The most recent Dropbox outage reports came from the following cities:

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Paramaribo	Errors	16 days ago
Bogotá	Website Down	16 days ago
Auxerre	Errors	16 days ago
Salt Lake City	Sign in	19 days ago
Madrid	Errors	1 month ago
Conneaut	Sign in	2 months ago

Full Outage Map

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Dropbox Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Raziel (@tryraziel) reported 1 minute ago

  Drew Houston pitched Dropbox to 76 VCs in 2007. 75 said no. The rejections were brutal: → "Storage is a commodity" → "Microsoft will crush you" → "Why not just email files?" → "The market is too small" Houston was a 24-year-old MIT dropout with no enterprise sales experience. VCs couldn't see past the obvious: cloud storage already existed. But Houston understood something they missed. The problem wasn't storage — it was sync. He'd built the first version because he kept forgetting his USB drive. Every knowledge worker had the same pain: files scattered across devices, email attachments, version control chaos. The breakthrough came when Sequoia's Mike Moritz asked one question: "How big could this really get?" Houston's answer: "Every person, every file, every device." Dropbox launched in 2008 with a simple demo video. 75,000 signups overnight. Series A at $25M valuation. By 2018: IPO at $9B valuation. Today worth $8B+ with $2.5B annual revenue. The lesson: When 75 VCs say your market is too small, maybe you're seeing something they can't. What "obvious" idea do you think VCs are missing right now?

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  Patrick Daniel Alpha (@PatrickDanielAl) reported 3 minutes ago

  Instead, I point Claude at the shared Dropbox link. It reads the folder structure, finds the right product, and drills down into the High Res image folders automatically.

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  al_chemyst (@AlChemyst43171) reported 4 minutes ago

  @MelAaronGibson1 Best news for AZ in years. Hobbs, Fontes, Richer were terrible. Kelly and Gallego rode the Biden dropbox stuffing into office. All bad.

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  Sean (@jishaochen89766) reported 4 minutes ago

  And finally, I find the problem is In the " Remotely Save " option, there is a set name "Change The Remote Base Directory) I need to find the name of the file folder in Dropbox, and fill it in this parameter... So everything is Light....Sync ....

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  Mohit Sindhwani (@onghu) reported 7 minutes ago

  @ocornut @RichardKogelnig Actually, some times the new menu is faster and the classic menu is much slower... but then sometimes, the new menu shows 3 entries called "Loading..." and that's terrible, too! I think one of my W11 PCs has almost instant context menu - the Dropbox notes were from that one.

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  Invest Lens (@AIadventure3) reported 9 minutes ago

  @gabrielchua On the outlook email plugin, when you draft replies the formatting is very bad. Is there a fix coming for this? Also, please add Dropbox and Asana plugins.

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  BonkDaCarnivore (@BonkDaCarnivore) reported 10 minutes ago

  @QEDCats I don't even remember the login for that Dropbox so I think it's there forever

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  obtuse goose (@abelianraisin) reported 14 minutes ago

  @suchenzang Entire value prop is doing a lot of heavy lifting here everything gcp/aws/azure does can effectively be done in a budget manner by its customers. Dropbox storage similarly (granted it's market cap is way down but still it is a viable business) I have no dog in this fight fwiw

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  Boris Gostroverhov (@gostroverhov) reported 15 minutes ago

  Let me add my own perspective: this reminds me of the Dropbox story. Before Dropbox, there were already dozens of similar solutions, but they didn’t solve the users’ problem completely or in the way users actually wanted.

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  timbidefi (@timbidefi) reported 23 minutes ago

  You are being watched right now and you're paying for it, privacy isn't a feature, it's a decision you make. Google stores your emails, Apple logs your location, Dropbox reads your files. Every cloud service you pay for is a deal you didn't fully read, with a company whose interests are not yours. He read it, built this instead: Custom rack server in his home, fully self-hosted, zero third party access, every byte of data sitting on hardware he physically owns. Email, storage, VPN, everything, running on his infrastructure, under his rules. Nobody can sell it, subpoena it, or lose it in a breach he had no control over. It cost him a weekend to build and less than $300 to run per year. Your data is somewhere right now, the only question is whose terms it's living under.

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  Elyas (@ElyasAlemi) reported 27 minutes ago

  @drewhouston @Dropbox big call. the co-ceo move forces the operating-system rewrite a single ceo can postpone forever. as a 17yo technical co-founder still 1 month into a saas, the thing i'm curious about is what the first conversation looked like. did you go in with the structure already drafted, or did it surface from a problem you couldn't both keep solving the old way?

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  The Redeemed Artist (@Peace_Grenade81) reported 27 minutes ago

  If this app was a phone I would have thrown it across the room by now. Breakups when I use voice to text. It's broken integration with Dropbox so I can't post my memes. And this has been going on for a long time. When will this be fixed?

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  🎀MONA MANIC🧸 (@mona_maniccc) reported 30 minutes ago

  My new Dropbox link is out 1 terabyte dm if you are down 💞

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  𝙎𝙄𝙕𝙀𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙮 (@SIZEplayProduct) reported 32 minutes ago

  Update: I was able to upload a clip via Dropbox to C4S using another Mac - maybe it has something to do with my MacBook? Even though it’s a few years old & has the latest software? Is anyone else having upload issues with #Clips4Sale?

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  Ketsu3D🔞 | C✶mms Open 2/2 :) (@Ketsu_3D) reported 35 minutes ago

  @C3_NSFTooth Itch io could be the way to go. They've recently started walking back on several limiting NSFW things that were forced on them by payment processors. Else Dropbox and Mega are options as well, though Mega is a terrible website to use and will force their App down your throat.

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  ️️️️️️diego 🌐 (@xdxego) reported 35 minutes ago

  ofc when i need to deliver something to a client dropbox is down

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  america is an embarrassment🖕🏻🧊 (@abadlittlevibe) reported 35 minutes ago

  @DaddyAndJaxson @kdriley05 Whelp you've got the Dropbox login...do what you need to do ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

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  Kalshi Finance (@Kalshi_Finance) reported 40 minutes ago

  JUST IN: Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down

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  Tychique Esteve (@TychiqueY) reported 41 minutes ago

  Day 4 building Verytis in public. I've been pushing hard to find first beta testers. Reddit 1,200+ views, real conversations, zero installs. X engagement, validation, zero installs. Direct DMs sent, read, zero responses. Everyone describes the problem in their own words. Nobody takes the step to test. So today I changed approach. I just submitted to Hacker News the community that broke Dropbox open in 2007. If the problem is real and the solution makes sense, this is where I'll find out. Watching the thread now.

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  Evan Otero (@EvanOtero) reported 42 minutes ago

  A decade-old Quora post on Dropbox that is a better product masterclass than any book: Q: Dropbox: Why is Dropbox more popular than other programs with similar functionality? A: Well, let's take a step back and think about the sync problem and what the ideal solution for it would do: - There would be a folder. - You'd put your stuff in it. - It would sync. 
They built that. Why didn't anyone else build that? I have no idea. "But," you may ask, "so much more you could do! What about task management, calendaring, customized dashboards, virtual white boarding. More than just folders and files!" No, shut up. People don't use that crap. They just want a folder. A folder that syncs… That is what it does.

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  nivek lloxac (@nivekllaxoc) reported 42 minutes ago

  @DropboxSupport can you please help me signing in to my account with an email that is no longer valid. I sign in but it's sending a code to an email I no longer have access to.

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  Gavin (Owner 67 Designs) (@67Designs) reported 45 minutes ago

  @DumbMoneyCapitl That could be argued, sure. But it misses the bigger picture. The real issue isn’t whether Jim and SCS have a working Dropbox—they clearly do. The problem is that VC funds are desperately hunting for places to deploy all their capital, and businesses like this simply can’t deliver the returns those funds require because of their heavy capex profile. It’s a classic square peg in a round hole from a funding and returns standpoint.

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  ✨️Ascendant (@ascendant32) reported 45 minutes ago

  yo laptop people, is 2tb of ssd necessary on a laptop these days or is 1tb enough? assuming 32gb ram i work w huge datasets sometimes as for storage needs i use dropbox so it's never been an issue but sometimes loading datasets can be an issue bc not enough ram lol

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  Mr. Judge (@MrJudgeXXX) reported 46 minutes ago

  @TheRitaaBang **** look like a Dropbox folder it’s terrible

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  Clayton Burns (@ClaytonBurnsPhD) reported 47 minutes ago

  @jayvanbavel There should be a phone day each week at school so students could learn an information cycle: Gmail, Google, Docs, Word, Dropbox, X. It is an important way to manage information. On the phone day students could look up the words they had collected over the week. OALD App is a brilliant tool. Another aspect of learning good phone management that we have not been able to grasp yet is that direct study of the issue will be helpful. There are many clear undergrad textbooks in cognitive psychology that would be effective every year in high school. One credentialing thing such as AP Psych is weak.

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  sophie's dad (@sofia_karina) reported 48 minutes ago

  @SharonElizaDC @FedExHelp who goes to a dropbox?? just wave down a truck ffs

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  Zach Roseman (@zachrose51) reported 52 minutes ago

  @SamMillerWright Alright - found some of your customers: Goldman Sachs, Spotify, Chase, Twitter, Dropbox, Google, Microsoft, IBM, Uber, Salesforce and Apple. Sound right? Going to use these to track down real prospects at your dream customers and map intro paths to them

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  Awooingenjoyer (@AwooingEnjoyer) reported 53 minutes ago

  Nah, the dropbox is broken, go speak to Cathy.

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  TradeNewsCast (@trade_news_cast) reported 56 minutes ago

  Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to Step Down, CNBC Says

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  Kuramichan (@Kuramichan7) reported 58 minutes ago

  @DropboxSupport I tried both on every browser AND the app on phone. It just gives me errors when I try to delete anything or upload anything. It's a problem on YOUR end, please fix it. I was able to upload stuff just a few moments ago until this issue started!