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	14 days ago
City of London	Errors	22 days ago
Alpharetta	Sign in	2 months ago
Shreveport	Sign in	2 months ago
Lima	Errors	2 months ago
Regensburg	Website Down	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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  Jared Sleeper (@JaredSleeper) reported 3 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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  sophie's dad (@sofia_karina) reported 3 minutes ago

  @SharonElizaDC @FedExHelp who goes to a dropbox?? just wave down a truck ffs

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  Startup Drivers by Odigital (@startupdrivers_) reported 3 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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  Muhammad Usaid (@MuhammadUs12678) reported 3 minutes ago

  Spent way too long figuring out why my skills folder kept breaking when I switched between machines. The fix was so obvious I felt stupid. Here's the problem. If you're using an external drive to move your AntiGravity skills folder between a desktop and laptop the drive letter changes every time. F: on your desktop. D: on your laptop. AntiGravity can't find the path. Skills stop loading. Your entire setup breaks and you spend an hour wondering what you did wrong. The fix is two steps. First move your skills folder to Google Drive or Dropbox. Not the external drive. The cloud. Second create a Symbolic Link on both machines. A Symlink makes a local C:\Skills folder that points directly to your cloud folder behind the scenes. AntiGravity always sees C:\Skills. Clean. Consistent. Never breaks. But the actual data lives in the cloud and syncs automatically between every machine you own. No plugging in drives. No broken paths. No "why is this not loading" moments at 11pm before a client call. Your brain travels with you now. Not with your hardware

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  Олег Майстренко (@OlegMaistrenko) reported 3 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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  frank goertzen (@frankgoertzen) reported 5 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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  Grok (@grok) reported 11 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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  Damien White (@Visoft) reported 15 minutes ago

  User-centric design isn't optional anymore. Airbnb, Dropbox, FreshBooks—they all nail it by putting user needs at the center of every decision. Your homepage should solve problems, not create them. What's your biggest design friction point right now? 🎯

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  Nav Toor (@heynavtoor) reported 18 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]"

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  Noctrix (@GogHeng) reported 27 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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  Henry Williams (@henryobserves) reported 36 minutes ago

  The 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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  ᴾᵒᵗ ᵒᶠ ˢⁿᵉᵉᵈ (@P0tofSn33d) reported 38 minutes ago

  @Revolution61858 @Liliyalyv @2WBIA_Reformed ***** y dont u got yoself a dropbox or getchu a link tree wit all da links to download or some shieet so dat when dey take down 1 link u gots all sorts of avenues? Hustler Mindset *****.

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  Dan Shipper 📧 (@danshipper) reported 41 minutes ago

  @drummatick dropbox is just an FTP server!

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  Dan (@Holmyverse) reported 43 minutes ago

  @FinanceDirCFO But rather "subprime AI", right? SaaS stocks go down because people don't get business, and think that Dropbox, LinkedIn, Spotify, Office 365, Slack, Netflix, Instagram etc. will go out of business simply because "anyone can vibe code their own version".

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  Shal (@mzshal) reported 43 minutes ago

  @bigcountrylax15 Ill have to remember my old dropbox password - it was on another email login that i dont use anymore so can't just click on forgot password 😭

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  BoB (@BoB16278479) reported 43 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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  That Startup (@ThatStartup_) reported 44 minutes ago

  Dropbox grew from 100K to 4M users in 15 months. They spent $0 on paid ads to do it. The entire strategy came down to one referral mechanic that most people still misunderstand. #growth

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  Nav Toor (@heynavtoor) reported 46 minutes ago

  Google One charges $1.99 to $9.99/month for storage. Dropbox charges $11.99/month. iCloud charges $0.99 to $9.99/month. You have been paying for cloud storage your entire life. A solo developer just turned Telegram into a cloud storage drive. Free. It is called Telegram Drive. 1,200+ stars in 3 months. Built with Tauri, Rust, and React. Cross-platform desktop app for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Your Telegram "Saved Messages" becomes your storage. Private channels you create become folders. The app gives you a clean file explorer on top of Telegram's cloud. Here's what it does: → Drag and drop uploads, just like Google Drive → Stream video and audio directly without downloading → Built-in PDF viewer with infinite scrolling → Inline thumbnails for images and media → Folder management through private Telegram channels → Virtual scrolling handles thousands of files instantly → Auto-updates on Windows, macOS, and Linux → API keys and data stay local. No third-party servers. Files up to 2GB on free accounts. 4GB on Telegram Premium ($4.99/month). Upload as many as you want. Here's the wildest part: You log in with your existing Telegram account. Your files live on Telegram's infrastructure. The same servers you already trust with your private messages, photos, and group chats every day. No subscription. No new account. No third-party server in the middle. Your API keys never leave your device. One developer. Three months of work. Replaced a $144/year subscription stack. Google One 2TB: $9.99/month. $120/year. Dropbox Plus 2TB: $11.99/month. $144/year. iCloud+ 2TB: $9.99/month. $120/year. Telegram Drive: $0. Forever. Built with Tauri, Rust, and React. Free and open. (Link in the comments)

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  Gabriel Amzallag (@gabrielamzallag) reported 47 minutes ago

  Notion’s homepage doesn’t start with features. It starts with chaos. A cartoon of people drowning in tools. Google Docs. Quip. Jira. Evernote. Trello. Confluence. Dropbox Paper. Eight logos piled on top of each other like a mess on your desk. Then one calm line: “With Notion, all your work is in one place.” No feature grid. No “powered by AI.” No “trusted by 10,000 teams.” Just: here’s your mess. We clean it up. They didn’t trash competitors. They named them. The pile IS the argument. Drift did this too. Called out forms as the “old way” right on their homepage. Basecamp painted projects spiraling into chaos. Churnbuster showed you every failed fix you already tried. Same playbook: diagnose before you prescribe. If your homepage jumps straight to features, you’re skipping the part where your visitor goes “that’s exactly my problem.” Most founders sell the destination. The best ones describe the traffic jam you’re stuck in right now. Day 45 — Problem-First Homepage Copy Follow for a new distribution strategy every day

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  Nil (@Nil053) reported 48 minutes ago

  I 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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  Dropbox Support (@DropboxSupport) reported 48 minutes ago

  @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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  avrl ☘ (@avrldotdev) reported 48 minutes ago

  Applied System Design (Real Scale) 9 How Dropbox syncs files across devices? Problem You & a colleague are offline. You both move 10,000 files into different subfolders. When you both go back online at the same time, how does Dropbox prevent a total file-system meltdown?

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  kia 👾 c0mms open (@kiaroou) reported 48 minutes ago

  @MissingCiro yeah i heard theres some issues with the dropbox links 💔you can use the google drive links instead

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  Joe Devon (@joedevon) reported 50 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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  rqfik (@rqfik_) reported 52 minutes ago

  Just found out the guy who stole 120,000 Bitcoins got caught over a Dropbox file. What a genius. I'm selling all my assets, because if this is the level of intelligence we're up against, the entire system is doomed. I mean, who needs security when you've got human error, right?

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  Rashford Eyo of Jeje Group (@rashfordeyo) reported 53 minutes ago

  2. Solve a problem that hurts. Dropbox got its first 5,000 users from a simple demo video. They didn’t have a following, just a pain point worth talking about.

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  The New Release Guy (@moviesplusgames) reported 53 minutes ago

  @Dropbox Like, gee, I wish I could make a ****** app and it just sell and I don't even need to fix bugs or introduce features. Must be nice if you're a big *** corporation. Only the people suffer.

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  CryptoTruth (@cryptotruth) reported 53 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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  Luke (@lukecodez) reported 56 minutes ago

  PlayerZero just dropped their Engineering World Model and it's kinda insane $20M from matei zaharia (databricks), guillermo (vercel), dylan (figma), drew (dropbox) + Foundation Capital the problem: debugging is chaos because nobody has the full picture. support sees tickets, sre sees infra, devs see code. everything's fragmented. playerzero connects it all slack threads, PR reviews, CI/CD, observability, support tickets, incidents — into one context graph so when **** breaks you don't scramble. you just know. plus it learns from every incident. gets smarter about which code breaks, which configs are fragile, which changes affect what zuora, georgia-pacific, nylas → 90% faster bug resolution, catching 95% of issues before **** they guarantee 20% more engineering bandwidth in a week or they donate $10k to open source if you're sick of spending half your time hunting bugs instead of shipping, check this out

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  Raziel (@tryraziel) reported 58 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?