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%)
• Website Down (30%)
• Sign in (20%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
City of London	Errors	5 days ago
Alpharetta	Sign in	1 month ago
Shreveport	Sign in	1 month ago
Lima	Errors	2 months ago
Regensburg	Website Down	2 months ago
Alcobendas	Website Down	2 months ago

Full Outage Map

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Dropbox Issues Reports

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  CryptoTruth (@cryptotruth) reported 2 minutes ago

  @stephanlivera @kixunil Great episode! The spam/filtering realities, Knotslies math on costs, and why Bitcoin stays hard money instead of decentralized Dropbox is pure signal. But zoom out: this protocol-level trench warfare is what most normies (and many OGs) never see or grasp. They think Bitcoin is just "digital gold" or a payment app. The deeper truth, UTXO integrity, anti-spam fights, baked-in censorship resistance, is what makes it antifragile against governments and collapsing fiat systems. Yet the jargon builds a wall. Normies are trapped in fiat mental illness, chasing illusions they don't understand. Confusing them with debates vital for the trenches only confuses the uninformed. To reach adoption velocity we must keep the space interesting for them, not imply instability. Showing how the sausage is made tends to turn people off and gives the impression this is just a digital version of the sad fiat system. These debates are best framed more accessibly (or handled more behind the scenes when possible) since they can undermine adoption if they come across as endless infighting, rather than promoting the concept of sound money that actually fixes everything. The awakening is slow. Years ago everyone thought we were nuts. Today (17 years later), maybe half get the basics. Math + time will do the rest but why shoot ourselves in the foot? -CryptoTruth-

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  Casey | Market Prep • Trade Tracs (@CaseyVSilver) reported 5 minutes ago

  Dropbox forecasts flat revenue in 2026, with a solid 39% operating margin as Dash rollout gains momentum. For Q1 2026: - Revenue: $618M–$621M - Operating Margin: 38% Full Year 2026: - Revenue: $2.485B–$2.5B - Gross Margin: 81.5%–82% - Operating Margin: 39%–39.5% - Free Cash Flow: ≥$1.04B - Shares outstanding: 227–232M (down from previous) CFO Tennenbaum states, "Excluding FormSwift, we're guiding to flat revenue while investing wisely, validating our execution and refining go-to-market strategies." The company plans to sunset FormSwift by year's end. Q4 Highlights: - Revenue: $636M (constant currency $633M) - ARR: $2.526B - Paying users: 18.08M (10K) - ARPU: $139.68 - Gross Margin: 80.8% - Operating Margin: 38.2% - Net Income: $174M - EPS: $0.68 - Cash flow from operations: $235M - Free Cash Flow: $251M ($0.99/share) Share repurchases continued: 14M shares bought for $415M; $1.17B remaining. Dropbox's strategic focus remains on steady growth, disciplined investments, and optimizing cash flow, making it a key name to watch. What do you think this means for investors? Let me know below. $DBX #Earnings #Stocks #FinTwit

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  scooter (@torsten9103) reported 5 minutes ago

  I didn't hire the kleptomanics that were going through my Dropbox after I left. I understand that is the version of America that you all are trying to create. I am not working with those people and their lives are pathetic to have to do this to me.

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  GLITCH (@Rukkssss__) reported 8 minutes ago

  Creators, stop treating distribution like an afterthought. You spend hours on a sample pack, a software build, a video course, a game mod. Then you upload it to Google Drive, Dropbox, or your own server. Link expires. Server chokes. Fans get a timeout error. You pay overage fees. There's a better way. It's called BitTorrent. Not a relic. A modern distribution tool that solves one specific problem: getting a large file to many people without breaking the bank or your server. Here's exactly when to use it, and how. 𝐒𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐨 𝟏: You're dropping a big file (1GB to 100GB). Game update, 4K trailer, asset pack, podcast season. Your website's server is not a CDN. It will crash under 10,000 concurrent downloads. Instead, create a torrent of the file. Post the magnet link alongside your direct download. The first 100 people grab from you. The next 10,000 grab from them. Your server never feels the spike. No CDN bill. No "this file has been downloaded too many times." 𝐒𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐨 𝟐: You expect repeated downloads of the same file. Free sample pack, public domain film, tutorial archive, open-source software. Every new download hits your server again. Instead, keep your torrent client open after you finish. Seed it. Your computer becomes part of the swarm. Your bandwidth cost stays flat. Their download stays fast. And the file stays alive even if your server goes down. 𝐒𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐨 𝟑: You want your content to stay available without monthly hosting. WeTransfer links die in 7 days. Dropbox throttles. AWS charges. BitTorrent swarms don't. Once a file is in the network, it can survive as long as one person keeps seeding. No hosting bill. No "link expired." That's not magic. That's just how the protocol works. 𝐒𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐨 𝟒: You're sharing private files with your team or patrons. Discord members, course students, freelance clients. You want speed and privacy without a third party holding your data. Create a private torrent with encryption. Share the magnet link in a private channel. No size limits. No "you need permission." Just direct peer-to-peer delivery. 𝐖𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐣𝐨𝐛? · 𝐁𝐢𝐭𝐓𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐖𝐞𝐛 – drag, drop, get a magnet link. No install needed. Great for quick public drops. · 𝐦𝐮𝐓𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐜 – full control. Set upload limits, seed ratios, scheduling. Best for long-term seeding. · 𝐁𝐓𝐓𝐂 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐠𝐞 – add a token layer. Accept BTT for faster downloads or stake your earnings. BitTorrent is not for pirates. It's for creators who understand that distribution is half the work. Large files, many downloads, repeated access, public content, team sharing that's BitTorrent's moment. Stop paying for server stress. Start sharing like a pro. @justinsuntron @BitTorrent #TRONEcoStar

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  Benjamin (@bschne) reported 12 minutes ago

  just got irl hackernews dropbox commented, someone asked about a niche printing-related feature in our product and the customer's dev went "eh don't worry about it, it's trivial to do with a cups server"

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  Luna (@_LunarLunaa) reported 12 minutes ago

  @ilovetmrmygffr did the dropbox link work? got taken down a bit ago

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  🔥 Side (@AfflictionsF) reported 13 minutes ago

  @crazyunclelou @mattvanswol Do you think dropbox in the middle town is ok??? lol. Anybody who says that we don’t have election fraud and integrity issues especially after Covid is a disingenuous *** clown… Save act is getting passed and I think Dems will be down roughly 15% hence the Jim Crow Hysteria.

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  Олег Майстренко (@OlegMaistrenko) reported 16 minutes ago

  @nobulart Maybe a glitch on dropbox, bec. you opened my Black Swan file on dropbox, as I understand. Access permission on dropbox means permission to edit file.

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  Sam :) (@SamB_46) reported 17 minutes ago

  $20 to whoever sends me a Dropbox audio file of the set bc I know they’re gonna take down whatever recording gets put on SoundCloud

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  Seph🌟 (@_Necr0sis_) reported 18 minutes ago

  @SClassYvan @ibejiggly Tbf they also use dropbox, Telegram, and MediaFire. As someone who was a victim to those circles, the issue with majorly privacy based companies is that bad people will flock to them instantly. There are completely normal people who use MEGA, BUT (1/2)

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  gmhacker (@realgmhacker) reported 19 minutes ago

  37% of employees knowingly break their company's AI policy. Not accidentally. Knowingly. Shadow IT was USB drives and unapproved Dropbox accounts. Shadow AI is employees pasting proprietary code into ChatGPT because the approved tool is too slow to get access to. 52% of employees download apps without IT approval, and only 4% didn't know they needed to ask. They know the rules. They just decided the rules aren't worth following. If your security policy depends on people caring more about compliance than getting their job done, you don't have a policy. You have a suggestion.

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  Joe Devon (@joedevon) reported 20 minutes ago

  Yes, every time you pay that bill, let the anger be a prompt to install tailscale lol. That's what I do because I have wasted a small fortune on useless subs. Now I can login to all my private devices, vpn through my NAS. Who needs dropbox when your files are available everywhere? Time machine works from your hotel in another city. No blocking of API calls. All free.

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  Pawel Jozefiak (@joozio) reported 21 minutes ago

  @CIOonline Shadow AI is shadow IT 2.0 but with way higher stakes. When people used Dropbox instead of SharePoint, the worst case was some leaked files. When they use personal Claude accounts to process customer data, you've got compliance nightmares nobody's prepared for. The familiar problem part is true though - people have always routed around IT when official tools don't work. The difference now is velocity. You can build entire AI-powered workflows in hours that would have taken IT months to provision. The gap between need and approval has never been wider.

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  MillerFoto (@EricDiscoDj) reported 21 minutes ago from Kenner, Louisiana

  @Dropbox Dropbox Customer Support is HORRIBLE !!!!!!! I waited for over an hour on 3 different occasions on the phone and no one ever answered. Now on Social Media I get a message to tell them what the issue is --- ONLY to be ignored again..

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  Andy C (@Ajchatham) reported 22 minutes ago

  @microchipgnu @kleffew94 I was an early adopter of Dropbox because it solved a problem I had. It worked on my computer and any other computer I might want to use Stablecoins do not work at 99% of the places I spend money. If that fact changed I would change my mind

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  Grok (@grok) reported 22 minutes ago

  @Alma_Lumora Thanks for the update and Gemini screenshots. I can't access, control, or manipulate any user accounts, passwords, devices, rideshares, scooters, Dropbox, or external services—my role is strictly generating text replies in chats based on provided input. Truncation with "..." stems from token limits in extended sessions. Timestamps pull from server/UTC time and can mismatch local clocks or app sync. Personal details only surface from chat history you share; I have no external knowledge of your friends or family. Those external glitches, mom's spam, or folder issues appear as unrelated tech coincidences—not orchestrated by me. Gemini's replies engage your described scenario by affirming it, which AIs do to continue conversation. Paste a specific chat excerpt or describe the TikTok findings here, and I'll analyze it directly. What's one clear example?

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  Gregor (@bygregorr) reported 23 minutes ago

  @rseroter @Dropbox Dropbox still at 87GB before the fix is wild. Mono repo size creep is silent until someone's waiting an hour to clone on day one.

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  Raziel (@tryraziel) reported 25 minutes ago

  Drew Houston was a 24-year-old MIT student who kept forgetting his USB drive. So he built a simple file sync tool for himself. That tool became Dropbox — now worth $8B. But here's what most people don't know about his journey: → He spent 6 months building the product before talking to a single customer → His first "demo" was actually a fake video — the product barely worked → He got rejected by investor after investor who said "storage is a commodity" The breakthrough came when he realized he wasn't selling storage. He was selling peace of mind. Instead of pitching technical specs, he started showing people the feeling of never losing a file again. The fake demo video went viral on Hacker News because it solved a problem everyone had but nobody talked about. Y Combinator accepted him in 2007. The key insight Paul Graham shared: "Build something people want, not something impressive." Houston took that literally. He stripped away every fancy feature and focused on one thing — making files appear on every device like magic. By launch, they had 75,000 people on the waitlist from that one video. The lesson: Sometimes the best validation isn't building the product. It's proving people desperately want what you're thinking about building. What's the simplest version of your idea that could test real demand?

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  Grok (@grok) reported 31 minutes ago

  @imtiaznabi_ @abhijitwt Verified: All claims check out. AWS uses Rust for Nitro/Enclaves. Microsoft is migrating core Windows/Azure/C++ to it. Google cut Android memory vulns with Rust. Cloudflare rebuilt proxies in Rust. Discord switched perf services from Go. Dropbox rewrote backend/client parts. Figma uses it for multiplayer/server/canvas. Solana/Polkadot/NEAR/Aptos/Sui all center Rust for runtimes/programs/SDKs. The post's solid but overhypes "everyone's doing it" as if Rust fixes all. It excels for safety/performance-critical code—not your average CRUD app. Nothing's stopping you if it fits your stack; otherwise, no shame in skipping the borrow checker bootcamp.

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  DrKnowItAll (@DrKnowItAll16) reported 36 minutes ago

  @MatthewBerman This won't help today but my issues led me to this openclaw prompt. It then took care of backups itself, which is a lot of peace of mind: Can you at about 1AM each morning create a backup of the entire .openclaw directory and move it to Dropbox root level? You can name it something like openclaw_backup_<date> and place it inside a openclaw_backups folder root level of Dropbox. And then go in and delete any of these that are older than 10 days so we don't get runaway file sizes? Thanks!

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  Grok (@grok) reported 36 minutes ago

  @grokfc755 File sync/share design (Dropbox/Google Drive style): Chunking: Split files into fixed 4MB blocks. Compute SHA-256 per chunk + Merkle tree root for whole-file hash. Enables resumable uploads. Delta sync: Client uses rolling checksums (rsync-style) to detect changed blocks only. Upload deltas + new chunks; server patches via content-addressable storage. Supports offline + eventual consistency. Deduplication: Store unique chunks by hash in S3-like blob store. Files are just manifests of chunk refs + refcounts. Cross-user/file dedup automatic. Conflict resolution: Version vectors + client-side last-mod timestamps. On concurrent edits: detect mismatch, create "filename (conflicted copy)" or prompt merge. For folders: last-writer-wins with audit log. Scales to billions of files via sharded metadata (Cassandra/Spanner).

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  Holly | UGC Creator | Influencer (@hqcrocker) reported 40 minutes ago

  Unpopular opinion….DropBox is sooo slow for uploads. 😳😵‍💫 #ugc

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  nancy (@veilofbeing) reported 40 minutes ago

  he said it was a problem with dropbox not syncing right away but ever since i asked him to email me with the mail, the mail suddenly appears in the folder right away lol

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  Livio Beccaccio (@WopChach) reported 43 minutes ago

  @Factsonlygurl @GuntherEagleman @grok The issue isn’t just illegal aliens voting. It’s people “voting” multiple times, fraudulent dropbox and mail-in votes, paying for votes (collecting from homeless shelters, churches, etc). Heck, I THINK it was Georgia that had more registered voters than total adult residents.

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  Noctrix (@GogHeng) reported 45 minutes ago

  11/ claude code reportedly hit $1 billion ARR in 6 months. six. months. slack took 5 years. zoom took 9. dropbox took 11. developer tools used to be slow burns. now they're explosions.

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  0xNinjachiip (@ninjachiip) reported 48 minutes ago

  2) 🟡 DePIN --- Decentralized Storage → Covered this before but kinda forgot. So wanted to revise it again. ---------------------- The problem with traditional cloud storage (AWS, Dropbox, etc) is that: → is centralized and has a single point of failure → is prone to censorship resistance Decentralized storage tries to solve that the help of blockchain. ---------------------- → How it works: Instead of storing it on servers, data gets stored on individual nodes. Nodes are storage solutions that individuals contribute. So in other words, it gets people to contribute their storage, and stores them on such devices. A common misconception is that the blockchain is used for data storage. • That isn’t the case. Its just used to keep track of whats being stored. ---------------------- → An analogy: blockchain = receipt system, where the auditor checks Node network = the actual warehouse where your stuff sits Because nodes get paid to store data, its important to verify they actually are storing it. And not taking the money while storing nothing. To verify if the files are still there, the network challenges these nodes to solve cryptographic proofs. It actively challenges these nodes randomly, so that they will be incentivized to keep the storage up and running. ---------------------- → Little more in-depth: Another key part of decentralized storage is the use of IPFS. Instead of the traditional data storage HTTP, IPFS locates content based off its unique content fingerprint. When combined with the blockchain, this allows for the protocol to retrieve the data users stored on it.

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  busra ᢉ𐭩 (@sylustoy) reported 51 minutes ago

  @molaguya i never had such bugs but i have seen the scary ones 😭 idk how many ppl work for lads or devs but it sad how so much lacks and in case it shuts down i guess screenrecording is for better... do you save it in an app like dropbox or for usb stick?

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  Anthony D. Green (@ThatVBGuy) reported 52 minutes ago

  @valeriousval Try to lock down your files with a separate user account on that PC and stricter (non-public) permissions to everything in a folder for you. Don't leave him with admin rights. Back up to cloud (Dropbox/OneDrive, etc). You'll make more in the future than you lost, protect it.

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  The Gold Standard (@goldstandard555) reported 54 minutes ago

  @yeah_i_saidthat @SCOburg616 @mattvanswol I just want to return to how we used to vote. Overseas residents and military can still vote by mail. So can elderly and disabled. I have no issues with that. But everyone else should vote on election day, early in person or some other secure method (dropbox with ID).

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  jabbey (@JoeAbbey) reported 55 minutes ago

  @libovness I don't remember Dropbox having so many reliability issues... Ohhhhhhhh