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	18 days ago
Bogotá	Website Down	18 days ago
Auxerre	Errors	18 days ago
Salt Lake City	Sign in	21 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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  TeX64 (@TeX64AI) reported 1 minute ago

  that's a sync-direction race: your web edits haven't reached the local Dropbox copy yet, so Claude overwrites a stale file. nothing's lost though, Overleaf's History menu keeps every version to restore from. fix: let Dropbox finish pulling before Claude edits.

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  Chris_Mellor (@Chris_Mellor) reported 2 minutes ago

  All of a sudden, when trying to upload Voice Record 7 audio recording files from my iPhone to Dropbox I now have to login to Dropbox and get an emailed verification code .... WHY??? All the convenience has gone. It's enshittification.

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  Bosn (@00bosn00) reported 5 minutes ago

  2026 and we’re out here building god-tier AI that can debate physics and write symphonies, but Grok still can’t watch a Dropbox, OneDrive, or Discord video link.“Sorry, I can’t watch videos from Dropbox, OneDrive, or most direct file links.”We’re doing all this magic with AI and the video player is stuck in 2015. Fix it, xAI.

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  Sara (@monamouroui) reported 7 minutes ago

  @SlmnMANUTD @WindowsLatest I didn't care about updating to the latest build. I cared about how Windows 11's AI deleted my Dropbox files from not only my desktop, but Dropbox itself! I managed to find them in DropBox's web Deleted Files folder and recover them. On top of this Windows decided to move all of my files that were on my hard drive to One Drive without my permission. And in the process of doing so created multiple subfolders D: OneDrive/My Documents/OneDrive/My Documents/OneDrive/My Documents/OneDrive/My Documents/OneDrive/My Documents/OneDrive/My Documents/OneDrive/My Documents/OneDrive/My Documents/OneDrive/My Documents/OneDrive/My Documents/OneDrive/My Documents/etc I brought it over the BestBuy to repair the OS because there were other problems, so I cannot tell you how many layers I had to click through to get to my actual documents. I was able to recover the apps that we affected by the update (ScanSnap, Adobe Illustrator, Acrobat, etc) doing a System Restore. But that didn't help with my files.

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  Raziel (@tryraziel) reported 8 minutes ago

  Drew Houston pitched Dropbox to 76 VCs in 2007. 75 said no. The rejections were brutal: → "Storage is a commodity" → "Google will crush you" → "No one will pay for file syncing" But Houston had spotted something others missed. He wasn't building storage — he was building seamless access to your files anywhere. The 76th VC was Sequoia. They led his Series A. What changed their mind? A 4-minute demo video. Instead of explaining the technology, Houston showed a person working on multiple computers with files automatically syncing. The use case was instantly clear. That video got 75,000 signups in one day. More importantly, it proved demand before building the full product. Today Dropbox is worth $8B+. The companies that rejected them? Most don't exist anymore. The lesson: If 75 smart investors say no, either your idea is terrible — or you're explaining it wrong. What's the most rejections you've gotten before someone said yes?

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  Marcin Moskała (@marcinmoskala) reported 16 minutes ago

  StrictMode is a developer tool which detects things you might be doing by accident and brings them to your attention so you can fix them. StrictMode.ThreadPolicy among others can detect: - slow (blocking) operations on UI thread (detectCustomSlowCalls()) - blocking disc reads/writes on UI thread (detectDiskReads()/detectDiskWrites()) - mismatches between defined resource types and getter calls (detectResourceMismatches()) StrictMode.VmPolicy among others can detect: - leaks of Activity subclasses (detectActivityLeaks()) - when an SQLiteCursor or other SQLite object is finalized without having been closed. (detectLeakedSqlLiteObjects()) - when your app is blocked from launching a background activity or a PendingIntent created by your app cannot be launched (detectBlockedBackgroundActivityLaunch()) - when the calling application exposes a file:// Uri to another app (detectFileUriExposure()) - attempts to invoke a method on a Context that is not suited for such operation (detectIncorrectContextUse()) For both of them, we can specify a penalty: - penaltyLog() - Logs detected violations to the system log. - penaltyDeath() - Crashes the whole process on violation. - penaltyDialog() - Shows an annoying dialog to the developer on detected violations, rate-limited to be only a little annoying. - penaltyDropBox() - Enables detected violations log a stacktrace and timing data to the DropBox on policy violation. - penaltyFlashScreen() - Flashes the screen during a violation. - penaltyListener(…) - Set specific listener on violation.

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  Adrien Matray (@AdrienMatray) reported 17 minutes ago

  The trap: when ~/.claude/ is in Dropbox, it often seems to work. No error message. Sometimes your preferences load, sometimes they do not. The symptom is silent quality drops you cannot trace. Not a visible failure. That is why people miss it.

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  Nav Toor (@heynavtoor) reported 17 minutes ago

  Open your bank statement right now. Count every subscription. Netflix. Spotify. ChatGPT Plus. Claude. Adobe. Apple One. Disney+. iCloud. YouTube Premium. Audible. NYT. Dropbox. Notion. Gym. Dating app. A 2026 study found the average American spends $219 a month on subscriptions. That is $2,628 a year. But they estimate they spend $86 a month. 74% of people admit they have forgotten about a recurring charge. 42% are currently paying for a subscription they have stopped using. A Portuguese developer named Miguel Ribeiro got tired of bleeding money to forgotten subscriptions. He lives in Berlin and works as a senior frontend engineer at eBay Kleinanzeigen by day. At night he tried Billbot and a bunch of paid web apps. None of them worked. Some of them charged him a monthly fee to track his monthly fees. So in October 2023 he wrote his own. The repo today: → 7,922 stars → 365 forks → GPL-3.0 licensed → Pushed last week → 69 followers on the founder's profile It is called Wallos. You self-host it. It tracks every subscription, every renewal date, every category, every currency, and shows you the actual number on one screen. Here is the wildest part: The subscription companies designed the system this way on purpose. 72% of people set everything to auto-pay because the checkout flow defaults to it. Cancellation pages are buried 5 clicks deep. Some require a phone call during business hours. A 2022 FTC report called this "dark patterns" and Adobe is paying $150 million in a settlement for hiding cancellation fees this exact way. Miguel did not raise venture capital. He did not write a Medium post. He did not go on a podcast. He shipped one PHP app from his apartment in Berlin and now thousands of people use it to claw back hundreds of dollars a year. The honest part: It needs a tiny server (a $5 Raspberry Pi works). You have to enter subscriptions yourself, it does not auto-detect from your bank. The UI is functional, not gorgeous. The author still works a day job and ships updates in his spare time. Berlin. One developer. The companies that auto-charge you forever finally have an enemy.

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  Surya Moorthy (@suryabuilds) reported 18 minutes ago

  🧵Thread... Dropbox in 2012 introduced 2FA due to some security issues in those days and following 6 months before they introduced 2FA. 👇👇

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  Aina (@Aina_Ai2) reported 18 minutes ago

  Then the conversation took a turn. The technician pulled up Activity Monitor and showed him something: 23 apps were running in the background that the customer didn't have open. Adobe Creative Cloud. Spotify. Slack. Microsoft AutoUpdate. Dropbox. Google Drive sync. Three different "helper" apps installed during printer setup years ago. Each one was consuming small amounts of CPU, RAM, and battery cycles 24/7. The technician's words: "Your MacBook isn't slow because it's old. It's slow because it's running 23 jobs nobody hired it to do." System Settings → General → Login Items → look at the lists under both tabs → remove anything that doesn't need to launch automatically. The customer removed 18 of them on the spot.

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  Dachswerk (@dachswerk) reported 22 minutes ago

  @Burnstation3D @gonecozycrafts The cloud was never cheaper. It was hyped to us as cheaper and more convenient. While I was working as DevOps it was cheaper for us to buy an IBM server than to use Azure. And with this AI thingy it's only gonna get more expensive. My Dropbox was hacked and I lost some Google docs because of their error. I have trust issues with cloud

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  Elyas (@ElyasAlemi) reported 22 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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  m ⋆｡°✩ (@ascaIons) reported 24 minutes ago

  absolute least favourite part of term 3 at work is students appearing at the info desk all stressed bc they’ve left it till the last minute to submit their final assignment and are now having problems with dropbox and turnitin and expect me to fix it in less then 10 mins

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  Stone Kidman Writes (@StoneKidman) reported 25 minutes ago

  @AyakaMods I had this problem that's why I use Dropbox

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  Elias Al (@iam_elias1) reported 28 minutes ago

  Then the conversation took a turn. The technician pulled up Activity Monitor and showed him something: 23 apps were running in the background that the customer didn't have open. Adobe Creative Cloud. Spotify. Slack. Microsoft AutoUpdate. Dropbox. Google Drive sync. Three different "helper" apps installed during printer setup years ago. Each one was consuming small amounts of CPU, RAM, and battery cycles 24/7. The technician's words: "Your MacBook isn't slow because it's old. It's slow because it's running 23 jobs nobody hired it to do." System Settings → General → Login Items → look at the lists under both tabs → remove anything that doesn't need to launch automatically. The customer removed 18 of them on the spot.

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  Kuramichan (@Kuramichan7) reported 30 minutes ago

  Is dropbox not working for anyone atm? I was JUST uploading some files and now it won't let me anymore, it keeps ending in "upload failed". It won't even let me delete folders either, it just gets stuck on a stupid endless spinning wheel or whatever. ******* hate this **** man

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  Lukman Aufbau (@lukmanAufbau) reported 34 minutes ago

  Dropbox tried paid ads first. Expensive. Low conversion. Stopped. Then built distribution into the product. 3,900% growth. Lesson: Test channels. Kill what doesn't pull. Double down on what does naturally.

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  hani (@fuergnani) reported 35 minutes ago

  I got greedy … if there’re kind sisters who would take the trouble to put the full video on a mega link, dropbox or naver mybox maybe??? 🥹

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  Hany (@kmhaneem) reported 37 minutes ago

  Dropbox launched in 2008 with a simple promise. Put your files in this folder and we will sync them everywhere. Every sync goes through their servers first. Their infrastructure. Their terms. Your files sit on their machines until you need them back. A developer named Jakob Borg decided that was the wrong architecture. Not inconvenient. Wrong, at the level of who owns what. In December 2013 he shipped the first public release of Syncthing. Peer-to-peer file sync. Your devices talk directly to each other. No company in the middle. No server reading the transfer. Syncthing is free, open-source, and has 67,000+ GitHub stars. The project's own stated mission: your data is your data alone, and you deserve to choose where it is stored. Most sync tools list speed and storage first. Syncthing's README lists data protection as priority 1 and priority 2. Speed does not even make the list. That tells you exactly what this project is. -> Your files go from your laptop to your phone. Nowhere else. -> Works on Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and more. -> No storage cap. Your limit is your own hardware. -> Peer-to-peer sync. Direct device to device, encrypted in transit. -> Runs silently in the background. Zero clicks after setup. -> Web UI included. No command line required to use it daily. -> Open protocol means no vendor can quietly change the rules on you. -> GPG-signed releases. You can verify every binary before running it. -> Versioning built in. Deleted something? You can get it back. -> Self-hostable discovery servers if you want to go fully off-grid. By 2019, Syncthing was getting roughly a million downloads per stable release and syncing hundreds of terabytes of data every day. It is now backed by the Syncthing Foundation, a Swedish non-profit, so no company can buy it, pivot it, or shut it down. Last commit: this week. Shipping continuously since 2013. 300+ contributors. Still pushing updates in 2026. Dropbox: $9.99/month. Google Drive: $9.99/month. Syncthing: $0. Forever. No account to create. No server holding your files hostage. No price hike email arriving on a Tuesday morning. No terms-of-service update quietly granting them new rights to your content. Cancel Dropbox and your access dies with it. Run Syncthing and nothing changes. Your files are on your machines. They stay there whether you open GitHub tomorrow or never again. That is not a feature. That is a different relationship with your own data. 67,000+ stars. MPLv2 license, which means no corporation can quietly close it down. 300+ contributors across a decade. Updated this week. The people who switch to Syncthing are not always the most technical. They are the ones who read the terms of service once and could not unsee them. If that sounds like you, the link is worth a look. (Link in the comments)

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  Americanrambler (@Ameericanrambl1) reported 38 minutes ago

  The ******** at the corrupt American Fork Police Department forgot to set the dropbox to private, so they accidentally made all the unredacted videos public. Before they realized their errors, somebody downlaoded them. Here it is. American Fork PD Unredacted Body & Dashcam 6 3 26 220 PM : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive #recklessben #americanfork #bricksandminifigs

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  PATRICK (@Augustuskiefer) reported 40 minutes ago

  @DropboxSupport We did not. The issue resolved around 12:45 cst

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  𝓅𝓇𝒾𝓃𝒸ℯ𝓈𝓈 𝓵𝓾𝔁💗👑 (@payprncslux) reported 43 minutes ago

  got a new phone & laptop now I can’t login to my dropbox because I don’t have my old devices .. fml

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  zerohedge (@zerohedge) reported 44 minutes ago

  *DROPBOX CEO DREW HOUSTON TO STEP DOWN: CNBC

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  Raziel (@tryraziel) reported 45 minutes ago

  Drew Houston got rejected by every major VC in Silicon Valley. Today Dropbox is worth $8B. Here's the pivot that changed everything. 2007: Houston was a frustrated MIT student who kept forgetting his USB drive. His solution? A file-syncing tool called Dropbox. The problem: VCs couldn't see the market. → "There's already FTP and email attachments" → "Why not just use a USB drive?" → "The market is too small" Paul Graham at Y Combinator was the only one who got it. But even he made Houston prove demand first. Houston's genius move: Instead of building the full product, he created a 3-minute demo video showing Dropbox syncing files across devices. The video went viral on Digg. Sign-ups jumped from 5,000 to 75,000 overnight. Suddenly VCs were calling him. The lesson: When investors can't see your vision, show them your customers instead. Product demos beat pitch decks every time. What's the best way you've seen a founder prove market demand before raising?

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  Miranda Fernandez 📍ELP (@erotiqlibrarian) reported 48 minutes ago

  I re-uploaded videos to Dropbox. Everybody has 24 hours to download before I take them down to remedy Dropbox deleting them.

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  Gavin (Owner 67 Designs) (@67Designs) reported 50 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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  Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg (@calibrated_lies) reported 52 minutes ago

  3. Incentivizes Centralizing BlockSpace Market Ahhh the crux of the problem "... high-volume data ...". Bitcoin is a monetary protocol used for monetary txs any other use make Bitcoin useless. Monetary txs are small. If you want data then get a DropBox account.

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  Matt Devin (@MattDevin6) reported 55 minutes ago

  @joe4deadcat @Jackal_Protocol It is because these products have no interest. I use stuff like Dropbox, Microsoft Team etc. in my work. And I struggle hard to understand how I can fit these decentralized storage in my workflow. You can’t call it utility if it doesn’t solve a problem ppl have.

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  Marcus (@MarcusSpillane) reported 56 minutes ago

  @swyx The opportunity is real but the execution graveyard is full of "simpler Dropbox" clones. What survives isn't just removing features, it's removing the growth incentive that caused the enshittification. That's a culture problem, not a product problem.

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  JasonFrostPhoto (@rootbeerphoto) reported 57 minutes ago

  @DropboxSupport What? My problem was not about camera uploads.