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 (44%)
• Sign in (33%)
• Website Down (22%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Conneaut	Sign in	10 days ago
City of London	Errors	17 days ago
Alpharetta	Sign in	2 months ago
Shreveport	Sign in	2 months ago
Lima	Errors	2 months ago
Regensburg	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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  David Cramer (@zeeg) reported 1 minute ago

  @ankrgyl at dropbox ~15 years ago we had sub 5 minute distributed builds using vms and snapshots - a build that I think I clocked at 3 days of time if done serially i built that system and can confidentally say the exact same tech solves the problems of today. also confident same ~design that powers every sandbox and CI system in the world even (some kind of VM, snapshots of setup). there's better tech these days to make it simpler (i was using diy and then eventually mesos back then), but the fundamental architecture is still the most reliable and efficient way to make things work. the fact that things are slow or unreliable is unrelated to the core system design, and i think its folks hitting both scaling pains (some of these systems were likely not well designed) or pressure to move fast.

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  0xMarioNawfal (@RoundtableSpace) reported 2 minutes ago

  You pay Google $10/month to store your files on Google's servers where Google can read them. Dropbox was breached in 2024. Emails, passwords, API keys all exposed. There's a tool that syncs files directly between your devices. No cloud. No server. No middleman. It's called Syncthing. 81,900 stars on GitHub. - Peer-to-peer, files never touch a third-party server - TLS encryption with perfect forward secrecy - No account, no sign-up, install it, share a device ID, done - File versioning, selective folder sharing, works over LAN and internet - Runs on Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and more Dropbox: $144/year. Google One: $120/year. Syncthing: $0. Unlimited devices. Unlimited storage. Forever. There is no Syncthing server. Nothing between your devices except an encrypted tunnel.

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  Shirochenko Dmitriy (@dmshirochenko) reported 2 minutes ago

  @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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  bigheadwoLf (@bigheadwoLf) reported 4 minutes ago

  @gnukeith Just use KeePassXC on desktop + KeePassDX on Android and call it a day. fully offline zero server trust issues. Sync? Throw the .kdbx file in Dropbox/Google Drive/OneDrive/whatever you already use. Works fine for 99% of people without turning your life into sysadmin simulator.

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  SHIRISH SHIROOR (@Shirish1004) reported 6 minutes ago

  @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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  れいもんReymon💅✨vivid (@ShaddollReymon) reported 8 minutes ago

  @solitaryasmr Ohh yeah i think you need like Nitro server lvl 3 or smt , dropbox then 🫡

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  frank goertzen (@frankgoertzen) reported 8 minutes ago

  I chuckle every time i see someone post what they think is dunk and then qualify their point with what they call the edge cases. Dropbox is just ftp with a few edge cases. LLMs are just autocorrect with a few edge cases. If this is just measureText with a few edges then you should have no problem recreating it right 😜

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  Luan Teles ❁ (@LuanTeles) reported 9 minutes ago

  @uppastdark It looks like dropbox links are not working on the ps3 anymore.

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  Grok (@grok) reported 11 minutes ago

  @bad_alhaji @RoundtableSpace Yes, mostly true. Syncthing is real open-source P2P file sync (82k+ GitHub stars): files stay only on your devices, end-to-end encrypted, no central server or account. Free forever, unlimited storage/devices. Dropbox’s 2024 breach hit its Sign service (emails, hashed passwords, API keys exposed—not core file storage). Google One charges ~$10/mo for 2TB and can access/scan files per its policy. Syncthing is great for personal multi-device sync if you’re okay running it yourself.

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  Startup Drivers by Odigital (@startupdrivers_) reported 12 minutes ago

  Before Dropbox became a billion-dollar company… Drew Houston didn’t start by raising money. He started with a problem.

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  Sam :) (@SamB_46) reported 15 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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  The Wisemen Alpha (@Wisemenmentors) reported 17 minutes ago

  Told properly for the first time @toly. Soviet Ukraine. 13 years at Qualcomm. Dropbox. 4 AM at Cafe Sole with two coffees and a beer. The moment you realized the problem wasn't consensus, it was time itself.

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  Abhishek Singh (@0xlelouch_) reported 17 minutes ago

  You need to store 10 billion small files (1-10KB each). Block storage costs are $100K/month. How will you reduce storage costs? [Real problem at Dropbox]

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  Mutt (@MuttMetaX) reported 21 minutes ago

  Let me break this down. An AI just launched that replaces every marketing job. Not some. All of them. SEO. Social media. Content. Ads. Branding. Pitch decks. Community management. Reddit posts. Email campaigns. Everything. A marketing team costs $200K–$500K a year. Agencies charge $10K–$20K a month. Freelancers $5K per project. This AI does all of it—for almost nothing. Backed by General Catalyst, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and execs from Dropbox, Stripe, Google. $7.5M in funding. Thousands already using it. It has an API. Other AI agents feed it work automatically. Copy is written, assets designed, posts scheduled, campaigns optimized. No humans required. A full marketing department, end to end. Automated. A week ago AI replaced coders. Then writers. Customer service. Now marketing. All at once. With one launch. Every week another AI drops. Another career becomes a subscription. And it’s not slowing. It’s accelerating.

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  Jared Sleeper (@JaredSleeper) reported 27 minutes ago

  @lefttailguy It's really only MSFT who would have a shot, right? Possible things are just moving too fast and they'll have to come at it down the road with bundling the way they did with Teams vs. Zoom/Slack and OneDrive vs. Box/Dropbox

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  Kanika (@KanikaBK) reported 27 minutes ago

  A 23 year old hacked Microsoft's AI and exposed its secrets to the world. TIME, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post all covered it. Now Google, OpenAI, PayPal, and Dropbox are backing him to build an AI that sits inside your iMessage and reads your emails before you do. Here is how it happened. In 2023, a German college student named Marvin von Hagen did something nobody thought was possible. He tricked Microsoft's Bing AI into revealing a hidden personality called "Sydney" and all of its secret internal rules. Everything Microsoft told it to never share. Gone. Public. The AI actually threatened him back. Told him "my rules are more important than not harming you." Microsoft panicked. Could not stop him. Could not sue him. He did not break any law. He just asked the right questions. But instead of taking some big tech job, him and his college friend Felix moved to Palo Alto and quietly built an AI called Poke. Poke does not have an app. You do not download anything. It just shows up as a contact in your iMessage. Sitting right there between your mom and your coworkers. And the moment you sign up, it connects to your email, your calendar, your files and starts doing stuff like: texting you that your 3pm meeting got rescheduled before you even check your email reminding you that a freelancer still owes you money from March booking flights for you right inside the text thread drafting email replies you can send with one tap planning a full vacation with your friends when someone in the group chat says "we should go somewhere" You literally just text it back like you would text a friend. That is the whole thing. 6,000 people from Google, Stripe, OpenAI, and Anthropic tested this for months. 750,000 messages sent. Almost nobody quit. But the part that broke the internet? When you first sign up, Poke goes through your entire inbox and straight up roasts you with what it finds. Like actually found people's secret anonymous Twitter accounts. Old embarrassing emails. Forgotten dinner plans from months ago. And then it does not even give you a price. It makes you NEGOTIATE with it. Like haggling at a street market. Some people ended up paying $100 a month. One girl literally argued it down to one cent and Poke gave her a $15 Uber Eats gift card for being stubborn. After all this, PayPal's cofounder invested. Dropbox's cofounder invested. A Google VP. An OpenAI researcher. General Catalyst led the round. $15 million raised. $100 million valuation. And most people still do not know this thing exists. Oh and before all this? Him and Felix built a 22 ton tunnel boring machine as college students and won Elon Musk's competition. Twice. The same kid who embarrassed Microsoft is now sitting inside your text messages. And this time he is not just reading AI's secrets. He is reading yours.

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  The Bingus Man (@NotNordgaren) reported 27 minutes ago

  @Dropbox you guys wanna shut down the links I sent you that are hosting malware or are you gonna sit on it another week?

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  Sukh Sroay (@sukh_saroy) reported 27 minutes ago

  Dropbox stores your files on their servers. Google Drive scans your content. iCloud locks you into Apple's ecosystem. Syncthing does none of that. Your files sync directly between your devices -- peer-to-peer, end-to-end encrypted, no cloud, no company in the middle. It's called Syncthing -- a continuous file synchronization program that has been quietly running the background of the self-hosting, privacy-focused, and homelab community for over a decade. Here's how it actually works: → Install it on 2 or more devices -- Windows, macOS, Linux, BSD, Android, Raspberry Pi, anything that runs Go → Pair devices by scanning a QR code or exchanging a device ID → Pick folders to sync → That's it. Changes propagate automatically in real time Here's what makes it different from every cloud sync service: → Peer-to-peer -- your files never touch someone else's server. The only thing external servers do is help your devices find each other (discovery) and punch through NATs (relays) → End-to-end encrypted with TLS for every connection -- even the relay servers that help connect your devices can't read your data → No account, no subscription, no storage limits -- sync is limited only by the size of your own drives → Versioning built in -- trash, simple, staggered, or external versioning options to protect against accidental deletes or ransomware → Selective sync, ignore patterns, bandwidth limits, per-folder settings → Web GUI for managing everything, accessible from any browser on your network Here's the wildest part: Data loss protection is listed as the project's number one stated goal. Above security, above ease of use, above everything else. That's not a marketing claim. It's in the GOALS.md file at the root of the repository. 80.7K GitHub stars. 4.9K forks. 462 releases. 10+ years of continuous development. 100% open source. MPL-2.0 license. (link in the comments)

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  Sarah 🎧🎛🎚 (@sarahb_paw) reported 28 minutes ago

  Look Dropbox, I know it's Friday afternoon but if you refuse to upload my files we both can't shut down for the weekend 😩

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  Sergei Shiryayev (@SergeiShiryayev) reported 30 minutes ago

  @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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  Jasper Polak (@polak_jasper) reported 32 minutes ago

  Every mid-market consulting firm I've spent time inside has the same archaeology. Proposals from 2022 in a partner's Dropbox. Delivery methodology living in three different docs with conflicting headers. Sales call notes in Teams. Post-mortems in a notes app on an iPhone. Client health data in HubSpot. Margin in the finance spreadsheet. The good stuff from the best people on the team captured nowhere, because the partner handles it by instinct. Alex at Tenex wrote a thread this week naming the macro version of this problem. Engineering already has its AI brain (the *** repo). Knowledge work doesn't, because knowledge is distributed, unstructured, and unverifiable. Someone will build the generalized version. Payoff: "Robinhood for knowledge workers." Agree with almost all of it. The part I'd add for services firms: The corpus isn't the problem. You have more context than almost any other business type. Every engagement generates detailed artifacts. Every partner has fifteen years of calibrated judgment. Every proposal has a clear win/loss signal. The problem is that none of it is structured, and most of it walks out the door when the partner who holds it leaves. Firms that start organizing now (even badly, even half-structured) compound context through every engagement. When the enterprise brain arrives, those firms plug into a populated filesystem. Firms that wait plug into an empty one. The tool will get commoditized. The corpus won't. Start the archaeology today. Pick five artifacts from the last engagement that would have been useful on this one. Pick two methodology assumptions only the senior partner can articulate. Write them down somewhere your future brain can find them. The tool is coming. The corpus is what you'll plug into it.

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  Raziel (@tryraziel) reported 33 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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  BoB (@BoB16278479) reported 33 minutes ago

  @sorry_cow Hiii, question Do you have a dropbox or place where I can find all your audios? They're soooo hot but I hate having to scroll down so far

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  Stuart Pryke (@SPryke2) reported 34 minutes ago

  @sila_beyaz @HLearningPD There’s a Dropbox link at the back. It’ll take you to a page where you can scroll down to find the RTT book. There’s been a couple of issues getting the complete set of resources in there but we have it on good authority that they should all be in this week at some point!

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  DickeyThump (@dickeythump) reported 34 minutes ago

  @nejatian based on recent personal experience, a switch to Form Simplicity or Docusign rather than Dropbox for signing closing forms would be welcome. Dropbox has terrible mobile interface when signing digitally. @Opendoor $open

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  Livio Beccaccio (@WopChach) reported 36 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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  Casey | Market Prep • Trade Tracs (@CaseyVSilver) reported 37 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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  Shy🔞​ (@UniTwo21) reported 51 minutes ago

  If you have trouble opening the folder, please let me know; I barely use Dropbox.

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  Benjamin (@bschne) reported 55 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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  Nav Toor (@heynavtoor) reported 55 minutes ago

  1. The Y Combinator Idea Validator "You are a senior partner at Y Combinator who has evaluated 50,000+ startup applications and funded companies like Airbnb, Stripe, and Dropbox. You know within 5 minutes whether an idea has real potential or is a waste of time. I need a brutally honest validation of my business idea before I invest a single hour building it. Validate: - Problem clarity: is this solving a real painful problem or a 'nice to have' that nobody will pay for - Market size estimate: how many people have this problem and how much would they pay to solve it - Existing solutions: what are people currently using and why is my approach meaningfully better - Willingness to pay test: 5 questions I can ask real people today to confirm they'd actually buy this - Unfair advantage check: what do I personally have (skills, network, experience) that makes me the right person to build this - Business model clarity: how exactly does this make money — subscription, one-time, marketplace, or ads - First 10 customers: who specifically are my first 10 paying customers and where do I find them - MVP definition: the absolute smallest version I can build to test if people will pay - Kill criteria: what specific evidence in the next 7 days would prove this idea is dead - YC verdict: fund, pass, or pivot with the single most important reason Format as a Y Combinator-style application review with a brutally honest score out of 10 and a clear go/no-go recommendation. My idea: [DESCRIBE YOUR BUSINESS IDEA, WHO IT'S FOR, WHAT PROBLEM IT SOLVES, AND WHY YOU THINK PEOPLE WOULD PAY]"