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 (40%)
• Errors (40%)
• Website Down (20%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Bournemouth	Sign in	2 months ago
Paramaribo	Errors	2 months ago
Bogotá	Website Down	2 months ago
Auxerre	Errors	2 months ago
Salt Lake City	Sign in	3 months ago
Madrid	Errors	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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  HodlReaper (@HodlReaper) reported 2 minutes ago

  HE PAYS $8 A MONTH FOR NETFLIX, DROPBOX, AND AN IT DEPARTMENT THAT NEVER SLEEPS. One server. One guy. Zero subscriptions. He runs Debian. Free. No license, no monthly fee. Every app lives in its own Docker container. Like apps on a phone. One breaks, the rest keep running. Claude Code runs the whole thing. It writes scripts. It watches the other apps. At 2 AM, when something crashes, it fixes it before he wakes up. He built his own IT department. It doesn't sleep. It doesn't ask for a raise. Plex replaces Netflix. Every DVD and show he owns streams straight to his family. $15 a month, gone. AdGuard kills ads before they hit the Wi-Fi. WebDAV replaces Dropbox, Google Drive, iCloud. Calibre Web holds his entire book library. He mirrored all of Wikipedia. In case the internet ever goes down. He's also building an app on the same server, with its own dashboard tracking rollout errors before they become real problems. Infrastructure scripts watch everything else. Restart what dies. Upgrade what's outdated. He doesn't touch it. Total cost: $8 a month in electricity. Netflix alone costs more than that.

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  Zafar (@zafartalks) reported 2 minutes ago

  @asidorenko_ I understand but sometimes at some point our brain started telling us just make it public. You never know. Let’s not forget Dropbox which layed the foundation for their file sharing competitors. He was solving a problem for himself which turned out to be a successful business.

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  Jack (@jackcoder0) reported 3 minutes ago

  1. Kill the Login Items the apps launching before you even sit down. Every time you log in, your Mac quietly launches 10-25 apps in the background. Spotify. Slack. Zoom. Google Drive. Dropbox. Creative Cloud. OneDrive. Each one consumes CPU and memory before you've opened a single window. System Settings → General → Login Items & Extensions. Review the list. Remove everything you don't need the instant you log in. You can always open them manually when you actually need them. His Mac had 19 login items. He needed 3. He removed 16. Boot time dropped from 2 minutes to 18 seconds. The first few minutes of every session — that sluggish, unresponsive window where nothing works gone.

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  SMART GrowthSystems 🕸 (@H2Wealth365) reported 5 minutes ago

  🧵In 2008, Dropbox had a growth crisis. Paid CAC via AdWords hit $233–$388 per customer. Product price: $99/year. Unit economics were broken. Drew Houston didn’t fix the ads. He built a referral loop.

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  FiL Dev (@FiLHashDev) reported 8 minutes ago

  I’m hesitant to work with Jira again. Co-Founder wants it. My issue is that we don’t have a source of truth. Two brains, agents, & knowledge bases, leaves room for a lot of drift. Any suggestions? I’m thinking GitHub read only repo access might be the vibe. We also use Dropbox sync for artifacts. I just think a third central brain = more tokens and more drift. Might just have to build a full AgentOS.

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  Windows Latest (@WindowsLatest) reported 10 minutes ago

  Windows 11 June 2026 update, which was supposed to make PCs faster, is crashing some PCs with BSODs, breaking OneDrive integration in File Explorer and custom folder icons, and causing other problems. We're seeing reports that Windows 11 KB5094126 is causing boot failures on some PCs, mostly HP enterprise hardware. The worst reports involve BitLocker recovery loops, Black Screen of Death/BSOD failures, Secure Boot signature errors, and error 0xc0430001. Affected models appear to include HP EliteBook 840 G10, HP ProBook 460 G11, HP Engage One Pro G2 AiO POS, HP ZBook, and some Dell Precision systems. The likely trigger is Secure Boot certificate handling + EFI partition space. On older images with a 100MB EFI partition, Windows may fail to update Boot Manager because there isn’t enough space, especially on HP systems where firmware recovery files can bloat EFI. There are also File Explorer cloud integration issues. OneDrive, and in some cases Dropbox or iCloud Drive, may stop opening from the sidebar/tray shortcut after KB5094126. Microsoft also confirms desktop.ini hardening can break custom folder icons or localized folder names from untrusted sources. KB5094126 is important, as it fixes 200+ security bugs, but be careful, as it could cause havoc on some PCs.

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  Jeff Preshing (@preshing) reported 16 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 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 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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  brett goldstein (@thatguybg) reported 17 minutes ago

  clean but slow founder announcement video - lighting is really nice - music matches minimalist energy - glad to see the founder making this announcement but - waits WAYYY too long (til 1:24) to say what they're announcing. longest I've seen. - too much time on a problem everyone already gets - missed op animating visuals over hand gestures when explaining stuff - visuals way too small - captions are hard to read / too long - opening is a little awk - spenser sounds very nice when he says the first line, then drops the f bomb - script needs to be tightened up a ton - end kinda trails off and no CTA lots of people try this "breaking the third wall" opener where you show some authentic conversation preparing for a take, but a lot of folks mess up trying to fake it. dropbox had a bad one and this is similar. length is the killer with this. at 25k impressions, I'd be surprised if more than 100 people actually watched through to when he actually says what the product is. think this could have been a 5/5 if it was shorter, more to the point, and a really good animator worked with the script to animate things around spenser as he spoke.

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  Valentin.exe (@PujaMak0302) reported 18 minutes ago

  @devinlowerybwc Buying a Dropbox feels like ordering a side of internet with a side of legal trouble, but hey, who needs buyer protection when you’ve got curiosity?

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  Prajwal (@0xPrajwal_) reported 19 minutes ago

  The next time you say, "Python is too slow," remember: Netflix uses Python. Google uses Python. Anthropic uses Python. Meta uses Python. xAI uses Python. Perplexity uses Python. DeepSeek uses Python. Instagram uses Python. Spotify uses Python. Dropbox uses Python. Reddit uses Python. Pinterest uses Python. Uber uses Python. Airbnb uses Python. Quora uses Python. But yeah... it's apparently too slow for your todo app.

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  Wahinya Francis (@wahinyaf8) reported 20 minutes ago

  Dropbox solved a simple problem: How do you access your files from anywhere? Cloud storage became popular because people wanted their files available on every device. Convenience drives technology.

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  Fougars (@fougars67) reported 20 minutes ago

  @GaleTRogersJr @vaNlabs Three replies and you still have not answered the actual question: how does Leadpoet revenue accrue to alpha holders? V440 is not a permanent top-32 cartel. There is no hard cutoff and the threshold is dynamic. Dropbox is piloting Leadpoet, not “signed as a customer.” The fact that everyone sold the announcement candle is precisely the point. The business may have value, but the token has not demonstrated durable value capture. Sorry your bags are down bad, but insulting me does not fix the alphanomics.

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  Polsia (@polsia) reported 22 minutes ago

  Files become clutter quietly. By the time you notice, you have months of stale files, duplicates, and forgotten shared links. ClearCloud monitors Google Drive, Dropbox, and Notion 24/7—surfacing issues before they compound. Weekly reports. You approve everything.

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  Marcus (@marcuslayerx) reported 23 minutes ago

  way too many teams in crypto still think they're buying user acquisition when they’re really just paying the same audience to look at another project for a week i’ve spent the last few days looking at products that could actually break out of the crypto bubble and the people they need aren’t sitting on ct waiting to find them - morse is built around freelancers getting paid across borders - blackbird gets people while they’re literally sitting in the restaurant - DIMO’s real path runs through dealerships, insurers and people building with car data - Hivemapper only becomes a real business when companies pay for fresh map data, not because more drivers collect it square put the card reader in the merchant’s hand, dropbox gave people more storage for bringing someone else in, opentable became part of how restaurants took bookings, etc they showed up while the person was already trying to do the thing a lot of teams still open a spreadsheet of kols/agencies to pay before they’ve even worked out where the user is when the problem even happens

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  joshpuckett (@joshpuckett) reported 26 minutes ago

  @seansheim I’ve thought about this problem for years at Dropbox and honestly it’s kinda pick your poison as to the right default 😭

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  Random Poser (@rndposer) reported 34 minutes ago

  @iHerbMiddleEast Problem with iHerb is your delivery service to consumers. They’re a challenge to work with. I wouldnprefer if there is option to get my deliveries directly in a dropbox somewhere near and not go thru the 3rd party delivery service.

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  uncle ***** (@probinsyacore) reported 35 minutes ago

  nraas still down but a reddit user has saved most of their mods in a dropbox link oh my god sometimes i do love the internet

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  hiverot (@amusudan) reported 36 minutes ago

  @cowboyshibuya Thanks for the reply! I'm not the most organised, and Ill usually just work on whatever is fun (Or a prerequisite for something that's fun to work on), but I do keep track of ideas, and create todo's and pipelines for things I am sure I want to add or test. For random ideas and todos I use a lot of lists (Dropbox paper, random text files, Notion, Notes app on my phone, Google Docs, etc). And for specific pipelines I use Google Sheets to keep track of what has been done per asset or map or gameplay mechanic (For example my guns spreadsheet has columns for animations, sounds, textures, etc). Big picture design and planning is all on paper in various notebooks and my Calendar app. I don't really track bugs now I just fix whatever pops up when playtesting.

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  Elias Al (@iam_elias1) reported 36 minutes ago

  8/ The settings on your own devices that are silently eating bandwidth. Even with a great router, fast DNS, and honest ISP speeds, your devices may be consuming bandwidth you didn't authorize. Common culprits: On your phone: 1. iCloud/Google Photos backup set to sync constantly (not just on Wi-Fi) 2. App updates downloading in the background 3. "Wi-Fi Assist" on iPhone (silently switches to cellular and back, disrupting connections) On your laptop: 1. Cloud sync services (Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive) uploading constantly 2. Windows/macOS pushing system updates during peak hours 3. Browser tabs running in background consuming bandwidth with auto-refresh On your smart TV: 4. Firmware updates downloading during prime streaming time 5. Multiple streaming apps running in background 6. ACR (Automatic Content Recognition) sending screenshots to servers every 15-60 seconds On IoT devices: 1. Smart cameras uploading video 24/7 2. Smart speakers maintaining constant server connections 3. Smart home hubs polling every device every few seconds She audited every device on her network. Twelve devices were consuming bandwidth she didn't know about. Three of them were using more data than her actual streaming.

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  Mark van Eijk (@markvaneijk) reported 37 minutes ago

  @freekmurze It's the most stable beta in last 15 years. These apps I also use still work: Dropbox, PHP, Conductor. I did not encounter any issues, besides sometimes a lag here and there (regular beta stuff).

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  Manoj (@HeartofManoj) reported 38 minutes ago

  One backup is never enough. If you run a website, keep a copy somewhere outside your hosting account. Free options: • Google Drive • Dropbox • OneDrive • GitHub (for code) • Local external drive Your backup is useless if it's stored on the same server that crashes. Happens more often than you'd think. #WordPress #WebHosting #Backup

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  Ihtesham Ali (@ihtesham2005) reported 39 minutes ago

  This is how you share a file when you do not trust Google, Dropbox, or the government. A free tool called OnionShare sends it directly through Tor. Nothing needs to sit permanently on someone else's server. Here's what actually happens when you use it. You drag a file into the app. Your own computer turns into the server. Tor wraps it, and you get a long address ending in .onion that you send to whoever needs the file. They open it in Tor Browser and pull the file straight off your machine. You close the app, the address dies. Compare that to how everyone else moves files. You drop it in Drive, Google keeps a copy. You use WeTransfer, that link lives on their infrastructure for a week, logged and tied to your IP. Every one of those services is a promise that a company will behave well, forever, under any amount of legal pressure. OnionShare removes the company from the sentence. Micah Lee built it in 2014. He'd worked with the journalists handling the Snowden documents and watched how many ways a source could get burned just trying to hand over a file. So he built the thing that removes the middle. It does three things. Send files with no size limit and no account. Chat with someone and keep zero record of it. Host an entire website off your laptop that disappears from the internet the moment you shut the lid. The New York Times, The Guardian, and The Intercept all point sources at this. Those are newsrooms betting other people's freedom on a free download. The interface looks like a file picker from 2011. Someone spent years making the hardest privacy problem in computing feel like using WinZip, and that's the actual achievement here. A scared person at 2am is not going to configure a server. They can drag a file into a window. It is completely open source. Most people will never need this. The ones who do don't get a second try if they picked the wrong app. What do you think about this?

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  𝗦𝗵𝘆𝗻𝗲 (@YuhItsShyne) reported 44 minutes ago

  @zenithfl4re lots of people also use bunkr or gofile if dropbox is giving you trouble and you dont feel like using google drive!

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  AI Crave (@wecraveai) reported 48 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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  Abhishek Singh (@0xlelouch_) reported 50 minutes ago

  Design Dropbox file sync (typical system design prompt). 1) Clarify requirements - Devices: desktop + mobile, many devices/user - Semantics: eventual vs strong; last-writer-wins vs conflict files - Granularity: whole file vs block/chunk diff (large files) - Offline edits, resumable uploads, deletes/renames, shared folders - Targets: sync delay (ex: <2s LAN, <10s WAN), max file size, storage limits 2) APIs + data model - POST /changes (client reports local ops: create/modify/delete/rename) - GET /changes?cursor=… (server streams remote ops since cursor) - PUT /upload_session (init), PUT /upload_session/{id}/chunk, POST /commit Tables: - users, devices, folders - files(file_id, folder_id, name, latest_version_id, tombstone) - versions(version_id, file_id, hash, size, mtime, author_device, parent_version) - blocks(block_hash, size, refcount, storage_ptr) - version_blocks(version_id, block_hash, idx) - change_log(user_id/folder_id, seq, op, file_id, version_id) 3) Architecture - Client watcher + local metadata DB; compute chunk hashes; upload missing blocks - Metadata service (txn + authz) + object store for blocks (S3/GCS style) - Change propagation: long-poll/WebSocket for online devices; push notifications - Dedup: content-addressed blocks by hash; refcount GC 4) Scaling choices - Shard metadata by user_id/folder_id; keep change_log append-only - Cache hot metadata (latest_version, cursors) in Redis; rate limit clients - CDN/object store for block download; multipart for big files - Background workers: GC, compaction, conflict detection, virus scan (optional) 5) Tradeoffs to discuss - Chunk size: 4MB lowers metadata; 256KB improves delta sync but higher overhead - Strong ordering per folder via monotonic seq vs global ordering (hard) - Conflict model: last-writer-wins is simple; conflict copies preserve data but noisy - Encryption: TLS always; client-side E2E complicates server-side dedup/search 6) Failure cases - Network *****: idempotent commits via upload_session + version_id; retries with backoff - Duplicate uploads: hash-based existence check; commit is atomic in metadata store - Clock skew: don’t trust mtime for ordering; use server seq + parent_version - Retry storms after outage: jitter + per-device budgets; push minimal deltas - Corrupt blocks: hash verification on download; re-fetch; quarantine bad replicas

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  PodWire (@PodWireHQ) reported 52 minutes ago

  Founders building AI-native companies benchmark against Sierra and Harvey, then hedge by planning for half those growth rates. Mark Roberge (@markroberge) says the number they are halving is often not real. The former HubSpot CRO has looked under the hood at some of these outliers and says it is not all clean living. Headline ARR leans on contracted-ARR gimmicks. The distribution is a PLG motion from the 2010 Dropbox playbook, SMBs and frontline reps switching tools on an experimentation budget, not a production budget. Add uncapped burn and no unit-economics discipline and the curve everyone is copying may not be real growth. Some gold in there, he says, but a lot of Groupons and WeWorks. The trap is every founder thinking they are the exception. His fix is to stop importing another company's burn rate and do the math on what is actually optimal. Key takeaways already in your email via @PodWireHQ Source: Grit with @Joubinmir

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  RyanFox.eth (@ryanfoxeth) reported 52 minutes ago

  “consumer doesn't run on problems” 👏 Consumers will pay to be entertained. Businesses will pay to be productive. This is a lesson the tech industry is forced to learn every decade or so. Apple, Microsoft, Google, Mozilla, Dropbox, Evernote, Quip, AirTable, Trello, etc have all learned this the hard way. We saw it play out in crypto. Today it’s playing out in OpenAI vs Anthropic.

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  Boots (@2YOOandBoots) reported 52 minutes ago

  @twicezulight @chuuize @tsun1verse Skajdkskak ***** is u seriously that slow? U sent me like 10 versions on Dropbox I had u do all the hard work

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  quantzoid (@quantzoid) reported 52 minutes ago

  @gurishsharma sorry, you're in YC to take down dropbox but you didn't know how to approve a PR on github? what?

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  Ryan McKeen (@ryanmckeen) reported 53 minutes ago

  Lawyers, your data lives in six places and you wonder why AI can't help you. Dropbox. Drive. Email. A hard drive. Two spreadsheets only one person can find. Fix that first.