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%)
• Sign in (38%)
• Website Down (13%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Bournemouth	Sign in	9 days ago
Paramaribo	Errors	1 month ago
Bogotá	Website Down	1 month ago
Auxerre	Errors	1 month ago
Salt Lake City	Sign in	1 month ago
Madrid	Errors	2 months ago

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Dropbox Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  QuixoticMoose (@QuixoticMoose) reported 5 minutes ago

  Bricks & Minifigs LEGO Drama: Unredacted Police Footage Raises Serious Questions About Cop-Business Ties Hey everyone, it's been a wild ride since my last piece on the Bricks and Minifigs mess. What started as a story about a family trying to sell their massive Star Wars LEGO collection has turned into something much uglier. With the unredacted bodycam and dashcam footage from American Fork Police now out there, we are seeing a side of this that looks a lot like police getting way too cozy with the business they were supposed to investigate fairly. The Footage Drop That Blew It Open Just recently, someone got hold of a big batch of unredacted videos from the American Fork PD. It was apparently an accidental public Dropbox link, but once it was out, it spread fast. These are the full versions of the interactions that were shown in heavily edited form before. And man, they paint a pretty concerning picture. In the clips, you see Bricks and Minifigs people like store owner Joshua Johnson and CEO Ammon McNeff talking to officers. They throw out some heavy claims against Reckless Ben. Things like extortion, death threats, collusion with the Mansells, and even making up documents. The police seem to eat it up without much pushback right there on camera. It feels like they are taking the company's word as solid fact. Signs of Too Close for Comfort One part that stands out is when an officer mentions personal connections. He talks about being friends with the Airbnb host where Reckless Ben and his crew were staying before that swatting mess. The officer even sounds like he is bragging about it on bodycam. That kind of casual chat makes you wonder if private relationships played into how aggressively they went after Ben. There is also talk between American Fork officers and other departments, including LAPD. It looks like McNeff and his team were pushing multiple police forces to go after Reckless Ben. The footage shows officers coordinating in ways that feel more like helping a business protect itself than handling a neutral investigation. The arrest of Reckless Ben gets shown in more detail too. What some saw as a traffic stop turns into a long vehicle search over supposed drugs that never seemed to pan out. Critics are calling the whole thing disproportionate, like the police were there to send a message rather than enforce clear laws. The earlier redacted videos hid a lot of this flow, but now we can see it all. The Community Reaction and the Mormon Angle LEGO fans and true crime watchers online have been tearing this apart. Threads on Reddit and YouTube breakdowns are full of people saying it looks like the department acted as private security for Bricks and Minifigs. Some point to the shared LDS Church ties between officers, Johnson, McNeff, and others as a possible reason for the protective vibe. I am not saying it is a full conspiracy, but the optics are not great in a tight knit place like American Fork. Public trust in the police handling here has taken a real hit. The department put out statements defending their actions as responses to stalking complaints at Johnson's home. They say redactions were about protecting victims. But the full unredacted stuff has many questioning if that was the whole truth. Where Does This Leave the Mansells? Remember, at the heart of it all is still that elderly collector and his son who lost track of most of their $200,000 collection during the franchise handover. Bricks and Minifigs maintains they only inherited a tiny bit of inventory and that the original deal was not properly done. Lawsuits are moving forward, but the missing sets and money have not been explained to the Mansells' satisfaction. Reckless Ben's videos brought massive attention to their situation, including a GoFundMe that has helped with legal costs. His style is aggressive, sure, but the new footage makes it look like the pushback from the other side involved more than just legal channels. This scandal shows how fast a hobby dispute can drag in law enforcement and how important real transparency is. If police really did favor one business over a fair process, that is a big problem no matter what side you are on. The LEGO community thrives on trust and good deals. Right now, a lot of us are watching closely to see if the courts sort out the missing bricks and whether anyone holds the police accountable for how they handled this. It is not over yet, but these videos have definitely shifted the conversation. What do you think? Drop your takes below.

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  Raziel (@tryraziel) reported 7 minutes ago

  Drew Houston got rejected by every major VC in Silicon Valley before Dropbox became worth $10B. His story shows why persistence beats perfection. 2007: Houston demos file syncing to VCs. The response was brutal: → "This already exists" → "Google will just build this" → "Not a big enough market" One VC told him: "Why would anyone pay for storage when it's getting cheaper every day?" Houston's mistake: He was pitching technology, not the problem it solved. The pivot moment came when he made a simple 4-minute demo video showing Dropbox in action. No technical jargon. Just: drag file here, access it anywhere. The video hit the front page of Digg. 75,000 signups overnight. Suddenly VCs were calling him. Sequoia led his Series A. The same firm that initially passed. The lesson: VCs don't invest in features — they invest in problems worth solving. Houston learned to sell the pain point (lost files, USB drives, email attachments) before selling the solution. Today Dropbox has 700M+ users and went public at a $9B valuation. The rejections weren't about the product. They were about the pitch. What's the biggest lesson you've learned from getting rejected?

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  ScarcityMan (@ScarcityMan) reported 10 minutes ago

  You might not believe it, but it is in fact happening, because it increases the cost, time, and difficulty of running a node. "Large" is a matter of opinion, but is clearly a quantity which would add up over time and have an impact. Why don't you want nodes to be as easy to run for people as possible, so that the maximum number of people can participate in the network, making it more valuable and more resilient? Why is that not something you want, to the extent that you will spend time arguing against it? What exactly is your stake in nodes being more difficult to run than they need to be? Why don't you care about spam? Why don't you care that it obviously, as it does everywhere it exists, degrades the quality of the thing being used? Why do think bitcoin will just be fine and go on forever while watching it transform into a poor imitation of dropbox? Why would anyone interested in bitcoin as money continue to use it when it becomes more and more infested with non-monetary data? Why don't you care about the possibility of truly bad stuff ending up on chain until the end of time? Do you think Satoshi made a mistake? Should he have created "Bitdata" instead? Do we not need to fix the world's money? You good with USD or whatever else is inflating away to nothing? So many questions that will never be answered...

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  Jeff Preshing (@preshing) reported 12 minutes ago

  What's the point of using smarter models if "smarter" means 10% better at finding obscure bugs and having a sassy attitude? Most of the true productivity gains that coding agents have to offer, which are finite, can be obtained using open-weight models for literally 1/100 of the price. The catch is that you actually need to understand the code you are working on. At the same time, I still think there's a viable business serving proprietary models. People are willing to pay for Dropbox even though FTP is free, and it's nice to throw a tough problem at a stronger model occasionally (if intellectual property limitations allow it). Plus, there's a whole frontier productizing this stuff. Unfortunately, Anthropic is currently in the business of spreading tall tales about future improvements, then shaking down enterprise customers. Most of it is based on 2010s LessWrong posts full of category errors, some of which I remember reading back in those days. And their recent hostility toward users in the name of safety is a result of the same ideological recklessness.

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  Adam (@aclater) reported 12 minutes ago

  Hey @FedEx @fedexhelp - you've got the wrong address on a dropbox in alexandria, and I keep getting your angry customers and packages. Happy to work together to fix it? I can DM details.

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  AI Crave (@wecraveai) reported 14 minutes ago

  Open source NotebookLM alternative with no data limits and AI agents. Same idea as Google's NotebookLM. Same chat-with-your-docs. Same podcast generator. Same cited answers. Except this one has no source limit, no notebook limit, no 200MB file cap, and no Google login. It's called SurfSense. Google NotebookLM vs SurfSense: - Sources per notebook: 50 to 600 → Unlimited - File size cap: 200MB and 500K words → No limit - LLM choice: Gemini only → 100+ models via LiteLLM - Local LLMs: Not allowed → Full Ollama and vLLM support - Self-host: No → Yes, one Docker command - Price: $0, $19.99/mo Pro, or $249.99/mo Ultra → $0 forever Here's the wildest part: It connects to 27+ sources Google can't touch. Notion. Slack. Linear. Jira. GitHub. Discord. Dropbox. OneDrive. Gmail. Confluence. Obsidian. ClickUp. Microsoft Teams. Airtable. Your entire work life, indexed once, searchable from one chat box. 14.4K GitHub stars. 1.4K forks. 6,232 commits. Apache-2.0 license. One honest note: the README says it's not yet production-ready and still being actively developed. But it already does more than NotebookLM does, and the gap is widening every release. This is what NotebookLM should have been from the start. Repo in the first comment.

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  Sara (@monamouroui) reported 15 minutes ago

  Why did Microsoft OneDrive just delete all of my Dropbox files? What a fracking PITA. You just created a huge problem for me. This might make me jump to a Mac. I am so disgusted and frustrated by what Microsoft running Windows 11 just did to my computer. Dozens of years of documents....whoosh. @Microsoft

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  ★ Omega_ DBZ★ (@omega_dbz) reported 19 minutes ago

  Leaked! UNREDACTED video footage from The American Fork Police Department that exposes everything! Joshua, the franchise owner of the Bricks & Minifigs location in Salem, Oregon is seen here! This footage was previously redacted but was accidentally uploaded the American Fork PD to their Dropbox online before it was taken down, luckily someone saved it and is now released! #recklessben #legoscandal

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  hani (@fuergnani) reported 19 minutes ago

  I got greedy … if there’re kind sisters who would take the trouble to put the full video on a mega link, dropbox or naver mybox maybe??? 🥹

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  Americanrambler (@Ameericanrambl1) reported 24 minutes ago

  The ******** at the corrupt American Fork Police Department forgot to set the dropbox to private, so they accidentally made all the unredacted videos public. Before they realized their errors, somebody downlaoded them. Here it is. American Fork PD Unredacted Body & Dashcam 6 3 26 220 PM : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive #recklessben #americanfork #bricksandminifigs

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  ScarcityMan (@ScarcityMan) reported 25 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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  Arythick-Ft$🍑💦 (@feyza_esnkya) reported 25 minutes ago

  Hold my head down on the **** till I can’t breathe! 😩🍆 Full video available on Dropbox 🔥👀

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  Kalshi Finance (@Kalshi_Finance) reported 26 minutes ago

  JUST IN: Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down

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  Rogerio Ferreira (@rogeriofza) reported 28 minutes ago

  @FMSlovakia portugal 2 meu super - dropbox link is not working

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  markusdd (@markusdd5) reported 29 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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  Adi K. (@AdeelKh14332183) reported 30 minutes ago

  Don’t pay for Notion, use Obsidian Don’t pay for Slack, use Discord Don’t pay for Zoom, use Google Meet Don’t pay for Jira, use Linear Don’t pay for Salesforce, use HubSpot CRM Don’t pay for QuickBooks, use Wave Don’t pay for DocuSign, use Dropbox Sign Don’t pay for Calendly, use Cal Don’t pay for Intercom, use Crisp Don’t pay for Webflow, use Carrd Don’t pay for Airtable, use NocoDB Don’t pay for 1Password, use Bitwarden Most startups don’t have a revenue problem. They have a software subscription problem. You don’t need a $30k tech stack to build a great company. You just need smarter tools. That’s an easy $15,000+/year saved.

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  bayleigh | HEARD BABYLON 💙 (@eternalwarnings) reported 30 minutes ago

  sorry it's boofed quality my Dropbox account was not working so I had to ss for the time being

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  Sara (@monamouroui) reported 31 minutes ago

  @SlmnMANUTD @WindowsLatest I didn't care about updating to the latest build. I cared about how Windows 11's AI deleted my Dropbox files from not only my desktop, but Dropbox itself! I managed to find them in DropBox's web Deleted Files folder and recover them. On top of this Windows decided to move all of my files that were on my hard drive to One Drive without my permission. And in the process of doing so created multiple subfolders D: OneDrive/My Documents/OneDrive/My Documents/OneDrive/My Documents/OneDrive/My Documents/OneDrive/My Documents/OneDrive/My Documents/OneDrive/My Documents/OneDrive/My Documents/OneDrive/My Documents/OneDrive/My Documents/OneDrive/My Documents/etc I brought it over the BestBuy to repair the OS because there were other problems, so I cannot tell you how many layers I had to click through to get to my actual documents. I was able to recover the apps that we affected by the update (ScanSnap, Adobe Illustrator, Acrobat, etc) doing a System Restore. But that didn't help with my files.

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  🎀MONA MANIC🧸 (@mona_maniccc) reported 34 minutes ago

  My new Dropbox link is out 1 terabyte dm if you are down 💞

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  CHRISTOPHER BLAZ✨ (@Blaz_Dao) reported 38 minutes ago

  Walrus 🦭 and Walrus Memory explained in a lay man's understanding. Let's dive in: 1. What is" Walrus🦭" ?? Firstly, I want you to think of Walrus as a gaint decentralised hard drive built on Sui protocol or ecosystem. Walrus is trying to become the decentralized version of cloud storage services like Google Drive, Dropbox, or Amazon S3, but built for Web3. In a simple analogy, think of it like this; Google Drive vs Walrus With Google Drive, your files are stored on Google's servers and Google controls the storage. If Google removes a file or service, you're dependent on them. But, With Walrus🦭 it's a different case as your files are split into many pieces. Those pieces are stored across many independent storage providers in a cheap manner as no single company controls all of your data. And the most fascinating thing is as long as enough storage providers remain online, your files can be recovered whenever you want. 2. What is "Walrus memory"?? In plain English, Walrus memory is simply the storage space used to keep data on the Walrus network. That data can be:Images, Videos, Documents, NFT media, AI datasets, Website files, Backups etc. Why does it matter? Imagine a viral meme image on Sui. Normally, the blockchain only stores a reference to the image because storing the image itself would be too expensive. Most blockchains are good at storing transactions but terrible at storing large files. @WalrusProtocol is designed to store large amounts of data cheaply while remaining decentralized. ~BlazCares

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  Pradeep Kumar Xplorer (@ThaiKumar) reported 39 minutes ago

  Someone is regulating my upload to Dropbox 33 mb file suddenly the network is slow

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  Auntieesq (@daniell0930) reported 43 minutes ago

  @MikeJShowalter The issue is the use of the data to train models not retention. Acting as if this is the same a Dropbox is disingenuous. They will not use the data to train for non-safety issues. Non-safety issue is doing some heavy lifting there. Do they have an outline of what this means?

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  Sourav Dutta (@sourav12dutta) reported 44 minutes ago

  @ishankbg @Siradhvaja @PhilipPanass Yes, shodhganga seems to be down. Can you suggest how I can post a folder with 10 pdf files here? Both dropbox and wetransfer are asking for email id.

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  lonesome cowgirl lex (@besosprincessa) reported 50 minutes ago

  Who is down to add to their Dropbox link? 👀👀👀 shoot me a message with your budget and want you wanna see!!

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  Detroit Media Magazine (@detroitmediamag) reported 50 minutes ago

  @DropboxSupport I don't know who's running this page but you need to fix the glitch that is going on with your latest update. My Dropbox app worked just fine up until your latest update which was about three or four days ago. Maybe even two days ago. I heavily rely on your services and I need access to my account ASAP. There is nothing but a black screen when I open up my Dropbox app hopefully somebody can get back to me with this problem and hopefully one of your technicians gets to work on your end.

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  Igor Trunin (@igortr_) reported 51 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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  GRETA (@Greta__ai) reported 51 minutes ago

  We added Asset Manager to Greta. You're building an ecommerce app: product images, demo videos, docs, case studies. Before: Upload images to Cloudinary, videos to S3, docs to Dropbox, links scattered everywhere. One breaks, and you're scrambling through three different services trying to find the original. Now: Upload once in Greta. Reuse assets across all your projects, with everything centralized. No external services. No broken links. No context switching between five different platforms while you're trying to ship. That's smoother. That's what actually building feels like. 50 MB per file. Images auto-compress.

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  kelsey (@kelsscarlet) reported 51 minutes ago

  i knowwwww somebody gotta be down to pay $100 for my dropbox folder w 770 files 👀 mommy needs gas to go to portland for a concert tn

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  Sujay. (@Sujay__Raj) reported 55 minutes 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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  Néstor Planes (@NestorPlanes) reported 57 minutes ago

  Ben Thompson about The Consumer Market: "This reality about the consumer market is a lesson that Silicon Valley has to re-learn every decade or so. Consider Dropbox, whose founder, Drew Houston, is in the process of stepping down. Dropbox was a category-defining product that had a viral hook — if someone signed up with your referral code, you got more storage — and grew extremely fast amongst consumers; the company then spent too long trying to actually build a business in the consumer space, before finally realizing that the only way to make money with what was ultimately a productivity product was by selling to enterprise. The reason is obvious when you think about it: enterprises are paying for their employees’ time, so of course they are willing to pay for tools that make those employees more productive; consumers, on the other hand, are mostly looking to waste time, which is why attention-harvesting advertising is the only software business model that works at scale for consumer services. The fact that Silicon Valley forgets this is downstream from Silicon Valley being a bubble; normal people aren’t looking for agents to buy them tickets to a concert. Still, the bubble was strong enough to convince OpenAI to make the exact same mistake Dropbox did: the company somehow convinced itself that it could make enough money selling subscriptions to consumers; Anthropic, meanwhile, realized that it was enterprises who were willing to pay for AI’s massive productivity benefits, even as OpenAI failed to capitalize on their consumer market penetration by refusing to build an advertising product. This is a long-winded way of saying that I don’t think that Apple’s agentic shortcomings are a big deal, at least for now. Agents help you do work and be more productive, and consumers don’t want to work or care about being productive. What they do want to do is watch short-form video, and an iPhone is simply much better at that than any other device ever will be; in that context, Siri being good enough is enough, and it appears that Apple crossed that bar."