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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.
- Sign in (44%)
- Errors (44%)
- Website Down (11%)
Live Outage Map
The most recent Dropbox outage reports came from the following cities:
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Website Down | 2 days ago |
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Sign in | 5 days ago |
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Sign in | 1 month ago |
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Dropbox Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Jesse Meyers (@jmbase) reported@VISportsTalk @Dropbox I was able to get the web interface to load by switching to a VPN. Before that it was showing a 500 error. Desktop app on Mac is still not connecting. Dropbox status page doesn’t show any issues.
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alldaystocks | 24/7 Market News (@allday_stocks) reported$DBX Dropbox Earnings Preview: Flat EPS, Slight Revenue Decline Expected • Q1 EPS expected at $0.70 on revenue of $620.0M, down 0.8% YoY • Dropbox has beaten EPS and revenue estimates 100% of the time over the last 2 years • Revenue estimates saw 5 upward revisions over the last 3 months
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“Ijebu Tax” (@OlalekanOR) reported@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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boogie (@w4nchwarrior) reported@Chishichusha @Lazei3 Welcome back! Can u fix the dropbox with all yr content?
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Timbitz (@Timbitz01) reported@TodayUpdates0 @RedLineReportt They can be if they want as far as I'm concerned. But the problem is.. that's not how they are voting. It's all the mail in and absentee voting and the anytime dropbox and the counting til they win that's the problem.
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𝙎𝙄𝙕𝙀𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙮 (@SIZEplayProduct) reportedUpdate: I was able to upload a clip via Dropbox to C4S using another Mac - maybe it has something to do with my MacBook? Even though it’s a few years old & has the latest software? Is anyone else having upload issues with #Clips4Sale?
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avrl ☘ (@avrldotdev) reportedApplied 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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iamAaruna (@arronnes) reportedTired 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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No (@cameraplan7) reported@itskinkerbell drive. If people try to download a photo off of Dropbox in a browser/link, the quality actually goes down. I’ve tested on multiple photos and it doesn’t happen with drive
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Dachswerk (@dachswerk) reported@Burnstation3D @gonecozycrafts The cloud was never cheaper. It was hyped to us as cheaper and more convenient. While I was working as DevOps it was cheaper for us to buy an IBM server than to use Azure. And with this AI thingy it's only gonna get more expensive. My Dropbox was hacked and I lost some Google docs because of their error. I have trust issues with cloud
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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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HiPri$ (@PlayDaMac) reportedLil bit selling nudes Like 2015! 20$ PayPal for a Dropbox. Just login to Onlyfans
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StackScan (@stackscans) reportedGrowing 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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scooter (@torsten9103) reportedI 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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Boris Gostroverhov (@gostroverhov) reportedLet me add my own perspective: this reminds me of the Dropbox story. Before Dropbox, there were already dozens of similar solutions, but they didn’t solve the users’ problem completely or in the way users actually wanted.
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Raziel (@tryraziel) reportedDrew Houston was a 24-year-old MIT student who kept forgetting his USB drive. His solution? A file-syncing service called Dropbox. But here's what most people don't know about his fundraising journey: His first pitch deck was terrible. 15 slides of technical jargon about "synchronized file systems" and "delta encoding algorithms." VCs glazed over. The breakthrough came when he made a 3-minute demo video instead. No technical explanations. Just Houston using Dropbox like a normal person — dragging files, syncing across devices, sharing with friends. That video got him into Y Combinator in 2007. → Seed round: $1.2M led by Sequoia (2007) → Series A: $7.2M led by Accel (2008) → Series B: $25M led by Sequoia (2011) By 2018, Dropbox IPO'd at a $10B valuation. The lesson: Houston didn't pivot his product — he pivoted his pitch. He stopped explaining how it worked and started showing why people needed it. Sometimes the problem isn't your idea. It's how you're selling it. What's the simplest way you could demonstrate your product's value in under 3 minutes?
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Sea (@norfaerie) reportedI just gave myself a five hour anxiety attack by trying to move all of my backups of pictures from Google to Dropbox and then running out of space on Dropbox and not being able to increase my storage because Google Play is broken on my laptop 🫠
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Robert DC🛸🦾 (@RDecrypto) reported5/ Cursor turned down SpaceX's $60B offer. Now valued at $50B. 2 years ago: an open-source side project. Today: worth more than Dropbox + Slack + Pinterest combined. AI dev tools: biggest opportunity or biggest bubble in tech? What did I miss this week? 👇
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Matt Devin (@MattDevin6) reported@joe4deadcat @Jackal_Protocol It is because these products have no interest. I use stuff like Dropbox, Microsoft Team etc. in my work. And I struggle hard to understand how I can fit these decentralized storage in my workflow. You can’t call it utility if it doesn’t solve a problem ppl have.
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Jasper Polak (@polak_jasper) reportedEvery 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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BlackhillsEd (@blackhillsed) reported@SgtJulier1776 @CoffeeBlackMD I would suggest @HunterEsoteric Go to his website, sign up for the emails and look at his resources. He is on YT (Taken down before) and Spotify. Once you get the 1st email go to the bottom of the page and get the complete Dropbox vids. Get his cheatsheet as well!
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0xNinjachiip (@ninjachiip) reported2) 🟡 DePIN --- Decentralized Storage → Covered this before but kinda forgot. So wanted to revise it again. ---------------------- The problem with traditional cloud storage (AWS, Dropbox, etc) is that: → is centralized and has a single point of failure → is prone to censorship resistance Decentralized storage tries to solve that the help of blockchain. ---------------------- → How it works: Instead of storing it on servers, data gets stored on individual nodes. Nodes are storage solutions that individuals contribute. So in other words, it gets people to contribute their storage, and stores them on such devices. A common misconception is that the blockchain is used for data storage. • That isn’t the case. Its just used to keep track of whats being stored. ---------------------- → An analogy: blockchain = receipt system, where the auditor checks Node network = the actual warehouse where your stuff sits Because nodes get paid to store data, its important to verify they actually are storing it. And not taking the money while storing nothing. To verify if the files are still there, the network challenges these nodes to solve cryptographic proofs. It actively challenges these nodes randomly, so that they will be incentivized to keep the storage up and running. ---------------------- → Little more in-depth: Another key part of decentralized storage is the use of IPFS. Instead of the traditional data storage HTTP, IPFS locates content based off its unique content fingerprint. When combined with the blockchain, this allows for the protocol to retrieve the data users stored on it.
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Adam Shurey (@AdamShurey) reported@devalara44 @ALeighMP I had the same issue, Dropbox are so annoying to deal with. I hope this new legislation helps.
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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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Kuramichan (@Kuramichan7) reported@DropboxSupport I tried both on every browser AND the app on phone. It just gives me errors when I try to delete anything or upload anything. It's a problem on YOUR end, please fix it. I was able to upload stuff just a few moments ago until this issue started!
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Invest Lens (@AIadventure3) reported@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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Damien White (@Visoft) reportedUser-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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Joachim Voth (@joachim_voth) reported@DropboxSupport u will just tell me its my problem, i should reinstall - which i did N times. selective sync is totally broken. i select 8 folders and u r on "syncing 450,000 files! 125 days to go!" how stupid does it get?
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JayBlake (@punishedMTL) reported@jimmy_dore Netflix has data centers. So does Dropbox, and cloud flare. Data center does not equal surveillance. It boils down to who owns and operates it.
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neo_relic (@neo_relic123) reported@Ashleydoncare @rachallison1 ... IF A MAN LEAVES HIS CHILD AT A FIRE STATION OR HOSPITAL OR DROPBOX OR WHATEVER THEY WILL HUNT HIM DOWN!!! NOT THE SAME FOR WOMEN!!!! WAKE ******** UP!!!! 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬