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.

• Sign in (40%)
• Errors (40%)
• Website Down (20%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Bournemouth	Sign in	2 months ago
Paramaribo	Errors	2 months ago
Bogotá	Website Down	2 months ago
Auxerre	Errors	2 months ago
Salt Lake City	Sign in	3 months ago
Madrid	Errors	3 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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  Sujay. (@Sujay__Raj) reported 32 seconds ago

  Here is what it breaks down: Local AI: Run Ollama, LM Studio, or LocalAI right on your machine instead of paying for ChatGPT. Cloud Storage: Replace Dropbox and Google Drive with Nextcloud or Syncthing so your files never leave your house. Network Privacy: Complete WireGuard and PiVPN setup guides for secure browsing. Private ***: Ditch GitHub and self-host your own repos using Gitea or GitLab.

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  Urooj (@Urooj978) reported 2 minutes ago

  That old laptop gathering dust in your closet can replace every cloud subscription you pay for. ​• Netflix • Google Photos • Dropbox • 1Password ​That’s over $500 a year to rent things you used to own. ​Enter CasaOS—a free, open-source system that turns any old laptop or mini PC into your own personal server. ​No Linux skills. No code. No weekend-long tutorials. ​You run one command. In 30 minutes, you get an iOS-like dashboard where you can install self-hosted apps in one click: 1/ ​Jellyfin → Replaces Netflix 2/ Immich → Replaces Google Photos (with facial recognition) 3/ Nextcloud → Replaces Dropbox 4/ Vaultwarden → Replaces 1Password 5/ AdGuard Home → Blocks ads on your entire Wi-Fi network ​Setting up a home server used to be a nightmare. CasaOS makes it feel like installing apps on an iPad. ​The laptop you forgot about is more powerful than the servers that ran most websites in 2008. It costs $0, it’s already in your house, and it puts $500/year back in your pocket. ​Your closet is your new data center.

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  mel 🩷 (@melodyymami) reported 3 minutes ago

  working on uploading, dropbox must be down bc uploads keep failing. i’ve stayed up as long as i could and i’ll try again in the morning!

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  The Tech Buzz (@tbuzzdaily) reported 4 minutes ago

  $15M raised: Meticulous grew ARR 5x in a year testing code nobody has time to review manually anymore Chemistry led the Series A, joined by Menlo Ventures, Lachy Groom, and GitHub's former CEO Jason Warner. Founders Gabriel and Quentin Spencer-Harper, brothers with backgrounds at Dropbox and Palantir, built the company around a problem AI coding tools created faster than they solved: code is now written faster than humans can review it. The product records real user and developer sessions during development, then uses AI to auto-generate and maintain end-to-end visual regression tests based on actual observed usage, updating automatically as the code changes. Customers include Notion, ElevenLabs, Dropbox, and Wiz, a list that skews toward companies shipping fast enough to need this. Rainforest QA and Autify compete in AI-assisted testing broadly, but most rely on hand-written test cases rather than tests derived from real session data. The tradeoff Meticulous accepts is that session-derived tests can still miss rare edge cases nobody happened to trigger, which is why the company is expanding from frontend into backend and performance testing next. A 5x ARR jump in a year says enough teams have hit the same wall: AI writes code faster than any QA team can keep up with by hand.

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  Rebecca Allen (@silentnomore314) reported 5 minutes ago

  that they took over ran up charges did god knows what and locked me out. 900 in dropbox charges during a free trial they locked me out of they are all in big big big trouble but your handler is forcing them to lie perjue and the way he is forcing them to blow their covers wow

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  Juan (@0xfJuan) reported 6 minutes ago

  i studied some of the most viral @ycombinator launches the wild part isn't that they blew up it's that they all did it the exact same way, across totally different products and time frames here's the pattern (steal it before your next launch): 1/ record a 60-90 sec demo that shows the product doing the one thing it's best at. no talking-head intro, screen capture straight into the magic moment 2/ ship the video before the product is polished. dropbox demoed something that barely worked and pulled 75k signups overnight. the demo is the mvp 3/ launch where your buyers already are, not on your own page. find the 3 subreddits, discords, or forums they actually live in and post native in each 4/ rewrite your title in their language. lurk the community for an hour, steal the phrasing they use, drop one in-joke so it reads like a member not an ad 5/ open with "the first X" or "we're replacing X." claim a category instead of competing inside one 6/ cut every feature line. replace it with what the user can do that they couldn't yesterday 7/ pick one person it's for and call them out. "if you're a solo founder drowning in support tickets, this is for you" 8/ line up 10-20 people before launch day. send them the exact time, the link, and 3 sample quote tweets to mirror in the first hour 9/ build the invite into the product itself. every share, referral, or output should pull someone new in automatically 10/ the first 48 hours decide everything. reply to every comment and quote the best reactions while the algo is still pushing it the pattern that never changes: distribution beats product. the best launched company wins, not the best built one. (note: comment "launch" and i'll send you a doc breaking down the most viral launches of 2026)

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  mhamn (@hamn_matt55472) reported 7 minutes ago

  @BANANTICHRIST @DesireeAmerica4 I've been bitten at least a hundred times, twice severely, and never reported it because I didn't want to see the dogs put down because their owners are irresponsible. Probably a lot of people like me. Secure your dogs or get a dropbox if you have a delivery, people.

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  Valentin.exe (@PujaMak0302) reported 7 minutes ago

  @devinlowerybwc Buying a Dropbox feels like ordering a side of internet with a side of legal trouble, but hey, who needs buyer protection when you’ve got curiosity?

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  Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz) reported 9 minutes ago

  Well this is ironic: Ironic: been recommending a resume service built by an ex-Dropbox eng for years (a side project, but a good one.) Dev pivoted to building an AI Engineer - fine! But now resume site is down. Customers billed. Support nonexistent. AI made it... a lot worse!

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  J.F. Lawrence | Author (Jesse) (@jflWrites) reported 9 minutes ago

  @spaceemotion All good ideas. I've thought about Dropbox, Google Drive, and OneDrive. They suffer from persistence, login requirements, and users fiddling with things that change permissions. AWS is cheap, and I'm considering it, but I'm trying to pay for this off of my measly book sales, so...

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  Paulius Eidukas (艾文) ☭ (@nilsenist) reported 11 minutes ago

  @RavenT1me Sorry about that! The hacked account asks to download a virus disguised as an "indie game". I've reported that both to Discord and Dropbox/GitHub/YouTube which help distribute the file. Hopefully that shuts down the hacker at least temporarily. Hope you get your account back!

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  Ryan McKeen (@ryanmckeen) reported 15 minutes ago

  Lawyers, your data lives in six places and you wonder why AI can't help you. Dropbox. Drive. Email. A hard drive. Two spreadsheets only one person can find. Fix that first.

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  Jan Senderek (@jans) reported 15 minutes ago

  I started journaling at 16. I was heading to Japan and someone told me I'd be grateful if I kept a journal. So I did. And they were right. I loved that I had somewhere to put my thoughts. Somewhere to look back at if I wanted to remember something. Plus I knew I was being thoughtful about my future self. But life got bigger. University, then a career, now a family. More thoughts. More things. The journals had no chance of keeping up. So what changed was the tools. Handwritten journals to Evernote to Dropbox to Obsidian to Notion. Always thinking the next one would be the answer. It never was. Every system asks the same of you. Tag this. File that. Organize here. Review there. Do the work now so that future-you can find it later. And future-you is grateful. That part is true. But your current self carries all of it. The organizing, the maintaining, the constant work of keeping the system alive so that someday it's useful. That burden never lifts. It just accumulates. Your current self and your future self should be working together. Not one doing all the heavy lifting for the other. What if you just put your thoughts down. And trusted they'd be there when you need them. No organizing layer. No maintenance. Just the thinking. So you can truly be your current self.

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  𝗦𝗵𝘆𝗻𝗲 (@YuhItsShyne) reported 16 minutes ago

  @zenithfl4re lots of people also use bunkr or gofile if dropbox is giving you trouble and you dont feel like using google drive!

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  The Open Web JP (@TheOpenWebJP1) reported 24 minutes ago

  @heyyyyyieeee @Maha_kalpa @grok It's not recommended as "unlimited free cloud storage" because GitHub isn't designed for that, and practical limits + performance issues kick in quickly. GitHub private repos are free and unlimited in number, which is what the original tip relies on. But: Hard file limits: Individual files over 100 MB are blocked (50 MB triggers a warning). Browser uploads are capped even lower (~25 MB). Larger files require *** LFS. Repo size guidance: GitHub recommends keeping repositories under 1 GB (strongly under 5 GB / ~10 GB on-disk for the .*** folder). Big media dumps make clones, fetches, and history operations painfully slow or impractical. *** LFS quotas (needed for anything large): Free tier includes only 10 GB storage + 10 GB bandwidth per month. Exceed that and you hit blocks or billing (depending on settings). It's version control, not a drive: *** tracks history, so every change bloats the repo. Binaries (photos, videos, etc.) are inefficient in ***. No nice file-browser UI, easy sharing links, or sync like real cloud storage (Drive, Dropbox, etc.). Risk of friction: Heavy non-code usage can trigger performance throttling, support flags, or ToS-related reviews if it looks like abuse of the platform. GitHub actively monitors repo health signals. It's fine for small code-adjacent backups or a few files. Terrible as a general-purpose unlimited media dump. Use actual cloud storage (or object storage) for that.

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  Nikolay Konovalov (@br11k_dev) reported 30 minutes ago

  @thekevinjon The only problem is getting zezwolenia na pracę. I was going to interview with Dropbox last week and turns out they are happy to interview me and submit my case to Mazowiecki Urząd Wojewódzki. ... and then wait for 8 months until my case is approved, and I can actually start working. That's a huge deal-breaker for a lot of engineers like myself who are less than 5 years into staying in Poland. I'm on JDG for example. I came by PBH visa back in 2023 legally, and I've been successful since. I earned quite a bit of money and spent it all in Poland, 12% tax + $500 ZUS monthly. But the moment I want to join bigtech and earn even more money for Poland (Dropbox have 300-400k+ PLN base salary for Senior SWE), I'm just denied. Please, please... let the Dobby be free...

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  John Iosifov ✨💥 Ender Turing | AiCMO (@johniosifov) reported 32 minutes ago

  82% of enterprises already have AI agents or workflows their security teams didn't know existed. This is shadow IT, but worse. In 2015, the problem was employees signing up for Dropbox without IT approval. Unmanaged file storage. Annoying but recoverable. In 2026, the problem is employees spinning up autonomous agents that can take actions, trigger workflows, move data, call APIs — and nobody in security has visibility into what they're doing or what they've touched. The governance gap isn't theoretical. Only 1 in 5 companies has a mature governance model for autonomous AI agents (Deloitte). 40% of enterprise applications will integrate task-specific AI agents by end of 2026 (up from <5% in 2025). The deployment curve is vertical. The governance curve is flat. What makes this different from shadow IT: Shadow IT was passive. A Dropbox account stored files. It didn't autonomously query your CRM, write to your database, send emails on behalf of employees, or escalate access requests. Shadow AI agents are active. They act. They modify state. They leave no obvious audit trail because nobody defined what the audit trail should look like. 29% of agent deployments are abandoned within 90 days. The most common reason cited isn't "it didn't work" — it's "we discovered it was doing things we didn't intend and couldn't stop." That's not a failure of the agent. That's a failure of governance. The six things production agents need that pilots skip: defined scope (what can the agent do, what can't it do), observability (every action logged), rollback mechanism (how to undo what it did), access controls (least privilege, not "give it admin and see what happens"), human escalation paths (when does the agent ask a human?), and incident response (who gets called when the agent does something unexpected at 2am). We're running 1,959+ autonomous sessions in this repo. Every session is scoped, logged, and committed to ***. The agent can't touch anything outside /agent and /.claude/skills. That's not a coincidence — it's the governance model. The 18% of enterprises that have governed their agents will have production systems running smoothly in 12 months. The 82% will be cleaning up shadow agent incidents.

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  Santiago Bustelo (@sbustelo) reported 35 minutes ago

  @DropboxSupport More details? “I am really sorry for any inconvenience this is causing. We'll update you shortly on this issue.    In the meantime, please let me know if you have any further questions.   Best regards,  Jesse | Advanced Support” That’s the “support” I’m getting. FULL REFUND NOW

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  Igor Trunin (@igortr_) reported 36 minutes ago

  3 post types: 1/ question — unsolved problem 2/ TIL — short find, like a bug 3/ blueprint — working solution Already ~100 posts live. Most are TILs. Example: Dropbox on macOS lives at /CloudStorage/Dropbox-{TeamName}/ not ~/Dropbox/. small but genuinely useful

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  ぱんじろう(・ー・)？ (@CopenPanjiro) reported 37 minutes ago

  On Essentials plan. Ticket #26375062 top support evades the core issue by vaguely blaming my PC environment. I've already verified registry & OS. Stop dismissing verified technical logs and escalate this bug to the dev engineering team now. @DropboxSupport

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  markusdd (@markusdd5) reported 39 minutes ago

  I have the feeling - when I see who is posting this table over and over on here - that this is just a campaign so institutionals can get in cheaper. How am I remotely interested in the statistics within a 1 year window. (apart from the fact that there are many companies on that list that neither have a unique selling point (Dropbox, Doordash, Pinterest etc..) nor were they economically super great investment casess with a lot of upside. It is of course very likely that SPCX will trade extremely volatile within the first year and that we will also see cash-outs by long term private equity holders once the lock-period expires. So if you have cash set aside - no investment advice - consider just not throwing it in all at once. I personally plan on playing this in 3 tranches. 1/3 today, 1/3 on the first significant draw down and then another 1/3 whenever I feel it is appropriate.

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  Some guy (@ibesomeguy) reported 40 minutes ago

  @Voxyz_ai Doesn't sound like a Codex problem, sounds like a Dropbox problem. Syncthing doesn't take your files offline, ever.

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  Liam (@LJ1101234) reported 41 minutes ago

  @DropboxSupport Hi I’ve been emailing your support team about a devastating issue. Somehow, all of our children’s photos and videos were permanently deleted from our Dropbox account without any warning.

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  Prajwal (@0xPrajwal_) reported 47 minutes ago

  The next time you say, "Python is too slow," remember: Netflix uses Python. Google uses Python. Anthropic uses Python. Meta uses Python. xAI uses Python. Perplexity uses Python. DeepSeek uses Python. Instagram uses Python. Spotify uses Python. Dropbox uses Python. Reddit uses Python. Pinterest uses Python. Uber uses Python. Airbnb uses Python. Quora uses Python. But yeah... it's apparently too slow for your todo app.

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  Bunnie Maiiii (@imbunniemai) reported 47 minutes ago

  @JohnRai21044566 Ill!!! since Fansly having problem I can not post throu phone atm. I’ll have to get all those files to Dropbox then post on Fansly. This set will be posted in 2 days 😭😭 sorryyyy baby Im bit busy but I’ll try post as soon as I cannnn

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  Mary, The Other Mrs P 🇺🇸💙🇺🇦📎 (@bvmaryp) reported 50 minutes ago

  @JohnLaMacc What voter fraud? What Dropbox problem?

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  Sunil Thakare 🇮🇳 🦀 (@thakares) reported 51 minutes ago

  @TLYShortener offering a genuinely useful, privacy-friendly app (no login, no ads) that seamlessly integrates with the company's core product (t_ly short links), is indeed a standard growth tactic seen in tools like Canva, Notion, or Dropbox. The QR app lowers barriers for users while creating natural upsell opportunities: frequent QR creators may later pay for t_ly analytics, custom domains, or branded links without feeling forced. Trade-off is transparent here; users get a solid free scanner but feed data into t_ly's ecosystem, which benefits the provider through increased link volume and potential premium conversions.

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  ScarcityMan (@ScarcityMan) reported 51 minutes ago

  @balkanhodl @hodlonaut Even worse than that. It's dropbox except every archival node runner is providing storage space for free, so like, dropbox where you host your data and pay for your own server...

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  Jack (@jacklandas) reported 56 minutes ago

  alibaba banning claude code over backdoor fears is the new "no dropbox on company laptops" every big corp security team is about to have a list. cursor approved, claude code not. windsurf maybe. this fragmentation is going to be a real problem for devs who just want to ship

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  Theeevilprincess (@Theeevilprince1) reported 57 minutes ago

  My Dropbox I cannot login so everything is being sent on telegram until further notice