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.

• Sign in (50%)
• Errors (50%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Madrid	Errors	13 days ago
Conneaut	Sign in	28 days ago
City of London	Errors	1 month ago
Alpharetta	Sign in	2 months ago
Shreveport	Sign in	2 months ago
Lima	Errors	3 months ago

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Dropbox Issues Reports

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  Nyan Nyan (@CatNyanpital) reported 2 minutes ago

  @thescepticalre1 Somewhat. But that's purely speculative and outside the scope. If you can put a price on the quality of data on Reddit vs Dropbox vs Snapchat, you will have solved a multi-billion dollar problem. **** you could start your own company based on this. To me, data is like commodities in that regard. Sort of like gold. You have a hole in the ground (or company) that you want to mine. The quality and amount that is able to be mined out is anyone's guess. I will say that there is an advantage to understanding how AI models mines data.

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  The Reverend KFidds (@KFidds) reported 10 minutes ago

  How can you run a "professional technical skills competition" and still expect students to turn in digital content on thumb drives. What is this, 2011? Computers don't even have thumb ports. Google Drive and DropBox is industry standard. So small time and outdated. Terrible.

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  StackScan (@stackscans) reported 13 minutes ago

  Growing a SaaS is like debugging a system. You don’t fix everything at once. You isolate one issue, solve it, then move forward. Fix onboarding → conversions improve Fix retention → revenue stabilizes Fix distribution → growth accelerates Example: Dropbox focused first on one problem: seamless file syncing. They didn’t try to build a full ecosystem on day one. They nailed one core use case, then expanded. One problem at a time. That’s how real scale happens.

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  Joseph Fritzl (@uf__001) reported 18 minutes ago

  @TheTigersBurner @fredsoda That’s not a Pton problem imo, that’s just entry level jobs drying up everywhere And 10 years ago it was also the case that 90% of on campus recruiting was finance or consulting. The remainder were rotational programs at places like Dropbox that have since been discontinued

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  DickeyThump (@dickeythump) reported 19 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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  Noctrix (@GogHeng) reported 22 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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  Joe Devon (@joedevon) reported 22 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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  iamAaruna (@arronnes) reported 27 minutes ago

  Tired of wasting hours hunting files across drives? Fix: Dokkio unifies Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive + more in one AI-powered search. Upload once → ask natural questions → get instant answers with sources. Result: Cut research time 70%. 🔥

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  Aakash Gupta (@aakashgupta) reported 28 minutes ago

  In April 2024, Dropbox disclosed that one compromised service account had given an attacker access to every active Dropbox Sign user's email, phone number, hashed password, API keys, OAuth tokens, and MFA data. Plus the names of everyone who had ever signed a document through the platform without even making an account. Syncthing has been around since 2013 and that breach is structurally impossible against it. 82,000 GitHub stars. MPL-2.0 license. Maintained by a Swedish non-profit foundation. Written in Go. The architecture is the whole product. Every device gets a cryptographic certificate. Traffic is TLS-encrypted end to end. Files move directly between machines you own through the Block Exchange Protocol. No central server gets compromised because no central server exists. Turn off the optional discovery and relay services and Syncthing has zero connection to anyone else's infrastructure. The reason cloud sync keeps producing breaches like the one above is structural. Centralized storage requires a single high-value target. The property that lets you log into Dropbox from a hotel computer is the same property that exposed every user when one service account fell. The convenience and the vulnerability are the same feature. Syncthing trades that property away. The cost is real. Both devices need to be online for sync to happen. There's no web UI you can hit from a borrowed laptop. No shareable link to text a friend. For most people that's a dealbreaker, which is why most people have never heard of Syncthing despite 13 years of open development. For files you actually care about, understand what the $120/year subscription is paying for. Storage at scale is close to free. The price covers an account, a server, a database, and a team that has to keep all three secure forever. The same surface area that made the 2024 breach possible. Dropbox can read your files. So can Google. So can Apple. Their architecture requires it. Syncthing literally cannot. Its architecture forbids it.

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  Joseph Jude (@jjude) reported 32 minutes ago

  @tarungangwani @signulll Why would you say dropbox lost PMF? Is it because other tools have captured the market or the problem itself is not significant any more

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  Sean (@jishaochen89766) reported 32 minutes ago

  And finally, I find the problem is In the " Remotely Save " option, there is a set name "Change The Remote Base Directory) I need to find the name of the file folder in Dropbox, and fill it in this parameter... So everything is Light....Sync ....

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  Grok (@grok) reported 36 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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  scooter (@torsten9103) reported 41 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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  Raziel (@tryraziel) reported 41 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?

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  れいもんReymon💅✨vivid (@ShaddollReymon) reported 42 minutes ago

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

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  GLITCH (@Rukkssss__) reported 43 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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  rqfik (@rqfik_) reported 44 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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  Invest Lens (@AIadventure3) reported 44 minutes ago

  @gabrielchua On the outlook email plugin, when you draft replies the formatting is very bad. Is there a fix coming for this? Also, please add Dropbox and Asana plugins.

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  Nil (@Nil053) reported 45 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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  Raziel (@tryraziel) reported 48 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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  Raziel (@tryraziel) reported 50 minutes ago

  Drew Houston pitched Dropbox to 76 VCs in 2007. 75 said no. The rejections were brutal: → "Storage is a commodity" → "Microsoft will crush you" → "Why not just email files?" → "The market is too small" Houston was a 24-year-old MIT dropout with no enterprise sales experience. VCs couldn't see past the obvious: cloud storage already existed. But Houston understood something they missed. The problem wasn't storage — it was sync. He'd built the first version because he kept forgetting his USB drive. Every knowledge worker had the same pain: files scattered across devices, email attachments, version control chaos. The breakthrough came when Sequoia's Mike Moritz asked one question: "How big could this really get?" Houston's answer: "Every person, every file, every device." Dropbox launched in 2008 with a simple demo video. 75,000 signups overnight. Series A at $25M valuation. By 2018: IPO at $9B valuation. Today worth $8B+ with $2.5B annual revenue. The lesson: When 75 VCs say your market is too small, maybe you're seeing something they can't. What "obvious" idea do you think VCs are missing right now?

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  Damien White (@Visoft) reported 50 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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  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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  nivek lloxac (@nivekllaxoc) reported 51 minutes ago

  @DropboxSupport can you please help me signing in to my account with an email that is no longer valid. I sign in but it's sending a code to an email I no longer have access to.

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  Can of Spam (@iDoLikeSpam) reported 51 minutes ago

  @senatorshoshana Just think it through. No admin. Read only access to your data. Dropbox-style writes only. It's not hard to lock it down, you just need to be thorough.

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  Red (@rubelr44) reported 56 minutes ago

  you're paying google $10/month to sit in their server room. dropbox gets $12/month. apple gets $10. the kicker? they can all see your stuff. and when dropbox got breached in 2024? emails, passwords, and tokens were just... out there. there’s this tool called syncthing and it’s honestly kind of a cheat code. no cloud. no company servers. no middleman watching you. it just syncs your files directly between your own devices. peer-to-peer. it's got like 81k stars on github so it’s legit. here is why it wins: direct sync: files go from your phone to your pc. they never touch a 3rd party. privacy: encrypted with tls and crypto certificates. zero friction: no accounts. no sign-ups. just install it and share a device id. everywhere: works on windows, mac, linux, android... even solaris if you're into that. safety net: it has file versioning. if you accidentally delete something, you can just roll it back. the wildest part is that syncthing isn't even a company. it's a swedish non-profit. there is no "cloud" to shut down. google has killed 293 products, but they can't kill this because your files aren't on their hardware. the math is pretty dumb when you look at it: dropbox/google/icloud = $120-$144 a year. syncthing = $0. unlimited storage. unlimited devices. it's been around since 2013 and it's 100% open source. if you're tired of paying a subscription for "permission" to access your own data, just switch. your hardware. your files. forever.

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  “Ijebu Tax” (@OlalekanOR) reported 57 minutes ago

  @TaoFeek182 Tbh, I could not download it, the Dropbox was not working. I'd share with you once I get hold of it.

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  Ezaz (@0xEzaz) reported 58 minutes ago

  “Delete Your Dropbox.” Sounds extreme until you realize how much of your life sits on someone else’s server, quietly monitored, limited, and one policy change away from disappearing. This isn’t just a challenge. It’s a wake-up call. The idea is simple: 24 hours. Move your files out of centralized storage and into the BitTorrent ecosystem. No gatekeepers. No single point of failure. Just your data, distributed across a network that doesn’t need permission to exist. We turn it into a movement. A live leaderboard tracking how much data people “liberate” from traditional cloud silos. A real-time counter ticking upward gigabytes, terabytes, petabytes each number representing users taking back control. Not just deleting accounts, but changing how they think about ownership. Because that’s what this is really about. Centralized platforms trade convenience for control. They decide uptime, access, even what’s allowed to exist. The BitTorrent ecosystem flips that model. Your files don’t sit in one place waiting to fail they live everywhere, secured by participation, not policy. So yeah, delete your Dropbox or don’t. But understand the difference. One system rents you space. The other gives you sovereignty. And once you see that, it’s hard to go back. @BitTorrent @justinsuntron #TRONEcoStar

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  Divy Goyal (@devdivygoyal) reported 59 minutes ago

  You won’t BELIEVE what Big Tech is charging you for… just to SPY on your own files! $10 a month to Google… so they can read everything on their servers. $12 a month to Dropbox… so THEY can read it too. Another $10 to Apple… same story, they’re peeking! And guess what? Dropbox got BREACHED in 2024 — emails, passwords, API keys, everything exposed! But there’s a secret weapon the cloud giants DON’T want you to know about… It’s called SYNCTHING — and it’s blowing up with OVER 81,900 GitHub stars! This bad boy syncs your files DIRECTLY between YOUR devices… PEER-TO-PEER! NO cloud. NO servers. NO middleman snooping. EVER. Your files fly straight from one gadget to another through an encrypted tunnel — never touching a third-party server. Not even Syncthing’s! Here’s why it’s INSANE: → Real-time sync across unlimited devices → Military-grade TLS encryption with perfect forward secrecy → Zero port forwarding drama — works on LAN or internet → Share folders selectively with whoever you want → Built-in file versioning — screw up? Just roll it back! → Runs on Windows, Mac, Linux, Android… even Solaris! → Beautiful web dashboard, no account, no sign-up — just install and go! The craziest part? There is NO Syncthing company. NO cloud. NO server farm holding your data hostage. It’s just pure open-source magic running between YOUR devices! While Google kills 293 products, Dropbox gets hacked, and iCloud leaks photos… Syncthing can NEVER shut you down. Because your files were NEVER on their servers! Cloud prices? Dropbox Plus: $144/year Google One 2TB: $120/year iCloud+ 2TB: $120/year Syncthing? $0. Forever. Unlimited devices. Unlimited storage. YOUR hardware. YOUR rules. 349 contributors. 464 releases. 5,000+ forks. Battle-tested since 2013. Run by a Swedish non-profit. 100% open source. Free. Forever. Stop feeding the cloud spies… Your files deserve better. Try Syncthing NOW — before they raise prices again! 🚨

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  the SE (@theSEalpha) reported 60 minutes ago

  Cloudflare 2026 Threat Report: brute force is fading. Attackers exploit trusted tools — Google Calendar, Dropbox, GitHub — 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.