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Dropbox is a file hosting service operated by American company Dropbox, Inc., headquartered in San Francisco, California, that offers cloud storage, file synchronization, personal cloud, and client software.
Problems in the last 24 hours
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Most Reported Problems
The following are the most recent problems reported by Dropbox users through our website.
- Errors (44%)
- Sign in (33%)
- Website Down (22%)
Live Outage Map
The most recent Dropbox outage reports came from the following cities:
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Sign in | 10 days ago |
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Errors | 18 days ago |
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Website Down | 2 months ago |
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Dropbox Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Arthur "Filterboy" van Pelt ๐ฅ โ/21M โก (@Arthur_van_Pelt) reported@ProfessorBigz You also have issues with playing the ball, right, that's why you only play the man instead. Sad. And not only that, you're also completely wrong. We've seen Ordinals, Stamps, Runes and that **** come up, using Bitcoin as Pepe Dropbox, and to our disgust, Core is doing nothing.
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๐ฒ๐๐ ๐ฏ๐๐๐๐๐ (@Gig_Digger) reported@unusual_whales The problem is several years back when it started was peak Bidenflation era. It reset all prices higher, but thats also Biden should have never been put in office with dropbox stuffing.
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Bark (@barkmeta) reportedLet me explain what just happenedโฆ An AI just launched that eliminates all marketing jobs. Not some of them. All of them. SEO. Social media. Content writing. Ad creation. Brand design. Pitch decks. Community management. Reddit posts. Email campaigns. All of it. A marketing team costs $200K to $500K a year. An agency costs $10K to $20K a month. A freelance designer charges $5K per project. This does all of it. Every single function. For almost nothing. Backed by General Catalyst. Jeffrey Katzenberg. Executives from Dropbox, Stripe, and Google. $7.5 million in funding. Thousands already using it. And it has an API. Meaning other AI agents feed it work automatically. AI writes the copy. AI designs the assets. AI posts it. AI optimizes it. No human ever touches it. A full marketing department. End to end. Automated. A week ago AI replaced coders. Before that writers. Before that customer service. Now every marketing job. All at once. From one launch. Every single week another AI drops and another career becomes a subscription. And itโs not slowing down. Itโs speeding upโฆ
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SeanCasGamer (@SeanCasGamer) reported@Shpigford @Claude There are issues with it that Iโve run into with Dropbox locking files to sync while Claude still works on them. I usually pause syncโing while Iโm doing stuff and then turn it back on when Iโm done.
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Kirsten Cox (@DTDSoftball) reported@TheCollectorCLE @CardPurchaser @eBay I email people that our PO is super slow and tracking is gonna be abit. Give them the advanced heads up. I go inside now and physically hand them the envelopesโฆ cause dropbox Iโve had issues with
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Shirochenko Dmitriy (@dmshirochenko) reported@rumevideo Built a full end-to-end video stack from scratch. Ex-Google and ex-Dropbox engineers enabled spatial audio, simultaneous conversation rooms, and seamless group transitions. Impossible with off-the-shelf APIs like Zoom or Twilio. Technical moat was real, but insufficient for sustainability. Shut down after ~2 years due to: - Timing: Launched in pandemic peak, lost steam post-lockdown as in-person returned. - Network effects: Social video needs critical mass to stick. - Monetization: Unclear path vs. free alternatives or ad-supported models. Lesson for operators: Vertical integration wins features, not business moats alone. #AI
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Sergei Shiryayev (@SergeiShiryayev) reported@Dropbox Can you please fix file renaming? I rename a file, click it to download it, it still has the old name when I download it. I have to refresh the browser to get the new name...
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Sir Dougby Chicken Caesar (@zamoose) reportedDear @1Password: are y'all listening? This is me too. You've succumbed to the Dropbox error and are putting all sorts of unnecessary (and insecure) stuff inside an app that should be rigorously single-focused. Please reconsider. I'd gladly keep paying for a maintenance mode.
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Raziel (@tryraziel) reportedDrew 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 โ now worth $8B. But here's what most people don't know about his journey: โ He spent 6 months building the product before talking to a single customer โ His first "demo" was actually a fake video โ the product barely worked โ 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 โ 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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Andreas (@abrkn) reported@Dropbox Dropbox paper logs me out every single day starting a few weeks ago. Login method is passkey. Please fix
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Startup Drivers by Odigital (@startupdrivers_) reportedBefore Dropbox became a billion-dollar companyโฆ Drew Houston didnโt start by raising money. He started with a problem.
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๐ฏ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฆ (@OnAirDestiney) reportedDropbox is moving painfully slow tonight. ๐ซ
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Ammanichanda (@Arkasiraee) reported@anvisha The breakdown to see what this really means, An AI just launched that eliminates all marketing jobs. Not some of them. All of them. SEO. Social media. Content writing. Ad creation. Brand design. Pitch decks. Community management. Reddit posts. Email campaigns. All of it. All these jobs are going away. A marketing team costs $200K to $500K a year. An agency costs $10K to $20K a month. A freelance designer charges $5K per project. This does all of it. Every single function. For almost nothing. Like 10% of the cost. Backed by General Catalyst. Jeffrey Katzenberg. Executives from Dropbox, Stripe, and Google. $7.5 million in funding. Thousands already using it. And it has an API. Meaning other AI agents feed it work automatically. AI writes the copy. AI designs the assets. AI posts it. AI optimizes it. No human ever touches it. It just gets better and better with time and eventually the curve will be even tough for humans to read. A full marketing department. End to end. Automated. A week ago AI replaced coders. Before that writers. Before that customer service. Now every marketing job. All at once. From one launch. Just one AI as of now. Every single week another AI drops and another career becomes a subscription. And itโs not slowing down. Itโs speeding up You are less relevant with each passing minute.
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gmhacker (@realgmhacker) reported37% 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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Gregor (@bygregorr) reported@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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Zach Roseman (@zachrose51) reported@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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SHIRISH SHIROOR (@Shirish1004) reported@vfsglobalcare Filled DS 160. Filled Application for visa appointment and paid fees. We are eligible for interview waiver. After clicking dropbox button it goes to VFS global contact us page and then says 404 error. We want appointment for drop box at VFS global Pune India center. Plz guide us
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Dropbox Support (@DropboxSupport) reported@SergeiShiryayev Hi Sergei, thanks for writing in. Are you downloading the file immediately, after renaming it? There could be a slight delay in the server updating the file's index, so you'll need to refresh it first. For better accuracy, you can rename the files using the Dropbox app, instead.
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Henry Williams (@henryobserves) reportedThe best startup ideas don't come from brainstorming sessions. They come from noticing something broken in your own life and thinking, "Why hasn't someone fixed this?" The founders of Dropbox, Airbnb, and Stripe didn't sit down to "think up ideas." They scratched their own itch. Your lived experience is your unfair advantage.
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dj ๐ข ๐๐ค๐๐ค (@septumfunk_com) reported@libovness no, github is just for source code, dropbox is used for media all the time. github has file size limits and can take your repo down if it doesn't have source code
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busra แข๐ญฉ (@sylustoy) reported@molaguya i never had such bugs but i have seen the scary ones ๐ญ 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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Atish (@AtishhAmte) reported@balyberdin_dev I was facing an issue with my clients with file chaos Tried everything from drive to dropbox, WhatsApp, email but nothing helped there So I listed my problem and derived solution around it
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Clayton Burns (@ClaytonBurnsPhD) reported@JessMarinDavis Canada is having significant information problems. Young people should be taught how to internalize an information cycle of the nature of Gmail, Google, Docs, Word, Dropbox, X. It is mostly older people commenting.
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ZeroBANG (@Z3R0B4NG) reported@Pirat_Nation Does the EU also force Google/Samsung to keep the Android OS compatible for 10 years? 2013 Android 8 phone here, bit of OLED burn-in, battery still fine! Problem is Dropbox, or my Moms hearing aid config app are saying NOPE to the ancient Android 8 OS, forcing me to upgrade.
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daniela molloy (@diandrasdiandra) reportedcoachella taking down the stream right when i'm at the start of it... okay *******. can someone send me like a link? a dropbox, a mega file, a drive, something?
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Joe Devon (@joedevon) reportedYes, 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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Nil (@Nil053) reportedI did not expect rolling hashes to come up in the "Design Dropbox" system design problem! When designing Dropbox, it is important to discuss chunking for large files: To upload 50GB file, we split it into smaller chunks (say, 4MB each) and upload them individually. This makes uploads fault-tolerant: a network disconnect doesn't ruin the entire upload; we just resume the remaining chunks. But what if the file changes locally? Do we reupload the whole thing? The next idea is to store the hash of each chunk as metadata, locally and remotely. Then, we only reupload chunks whose hash has changed. But that's just normal hashing; we haven't got to the rolling hash part yet... Consider the worst case: append one byte at the *start* of the file. Every chunk boundary shifts by one byte, every chunk hash changes, and we reupload everything. The chunks we previously uploaded are still physically present in the local file, just not aligned to 4MB offsets. That's where the rolling hash comes in: we use it to compute, in linear time, the hash of every 4MB window in the local file - not just those aligned to offsets that are multiples of 4MB. This way, if a chunk we previously uploaded is still intact *anywhere* in the local file, even if it moved around, we will detect it, and we can skip uploading it. We only need to upload the bits between those chunks (and accept that our chunks will not always be exactly 100MB).
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Cryptosailor (@robertdavid010) reported@zmanian The issue was not focusing on the actual innovation being done in the Cosmos eco, & instead getting wrapped up in crypto casino degen hype. Eg. @Jackal_Protocol delivers on a decentralized 'Dropbox' @gitopiaDAO delivers on decentralized 'GitHub' (all Cosmos project should use)
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the SE (@theSEalpha) reportedCloudflare 2026 Threat Report: brute force is fading. Attackers exploit trusted tools โ Google Calendar, Dropbox, GitHub โ to move laterally. They call it "living off the XaaS." Record 31.4 Tbps DDoS. Session token theft surging. The perimeter isn't the problem. Trust is.
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JK (Bitcoin style) (@regulartacos) reportedHad a VP justify him working CONPLETELY out of his personal dropbox by saying โwell, I was the only one working last MS outageโ. Checkmate. Even though his clients are the only reason we have compliance exposure.