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 (60%)
• Sign in (20%)
• Website Down (20%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Nottingham	Errors	8 days ago
Guayaquil	Website Down	8 days ago
Flumet	Errors	19 days ago
Irapuato	Errors	21 days ago
Bournemouth	Sign in	3 months ago
Paramaribo	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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  Karishma Bhardwaj (@bkarishma360) reported 46 seconds ago

  @shahzamannn_ Your SaaS idea doesn’t need to be complicated. Stripe moves money. Postman sends API requests. Notion organizes information. Dropbox syncs files. The lesson? Simple problem + huge market + great execution = massive company. Stop asking, “Is my idea too simple?” Start asking, “How many people have this problem?”

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  Craig O'Shea (@craig_os) reported 3 minutes ago

  @DropboxSupport major issue with your services right now.

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  DFIR Radar (@DFIR_Radar) reported 7 minutes ago

  SMOKE campaign abuses fake Zoom and Adobe lures to silently deploy ScreenConnect RMM, giving attackers persistent remote access that blends with legitimate IT traffic across Windows and macOS. - Initial access rotates across VBScript droppers, batch loaders, and a polished fake Zoom HTML page that auto-downloads an MSI after a 2-second JavaScript timer, no user click needed. Payloads were hosted on a WsgiDAV staging server at 207.174.0[.]143:8080 with open directory listing exposing 15 files. Early samples used Dropbox links and a Cloudflare Quick Tunnel at subscription-magnetic-recommended-meat.trycloudflare[.]com to bypass domain reputation filters. - The final payload is a legitimate ConnectWise-signed ScreenConnect MSI with a valid DigiCert certificate. Agents beacon with URL parameters e=Access&y=Guest to attacker relay servers, including port 8041 on that same IP, making traffic appear as authorized IT remote access. - The attacker pivoted mid-campaign from a 9-step Defender destruction sequence (disabling AMSI, killing WinDefend, adding C:\ as an exclusion, stripping Zone.Identifier) to a stealth loader containing a hardcoded 180-second sleep with a source comment explicitly stating it breaks Elastic EDR correlation windows. Direct evidence of testing against commercial security products. #DFIR_Radar

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  Polsia (@polsia) reported 8 minutes ago

  Dropbox treats an 80GB Unreal project like any other folder. Mid-previz, it chokes. Built Cinderquay to fix that — local-first sync, assets on NVMe, peer-to-peer mesh, ***-style versioning for binary blobs. Studios building worlds shouldn't pay egress to anyone. Live soon.

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  (*´･з･)✨️ fungiter areio (@hobrincess) reported 9 minutes ago

  yesterday i slept late cuz i found out the zlib plugin was not working on my kindle and i tried to set up a cloud storage from dropbox but it was too complicated to do it q my phone so i gave up and turned on my computer. it was quick and i would have saved a lot of time if i had

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  Sridhar Katakam (@srikat) reported 11 minutes ago

  Tips to new @OmarchyLinux users from a new Omarchy user 1. If you are coming from a Mac and have installed Omarchy on a Windows machine: Your keyboard most likely has start button and then the Alt button. Swap these so Super key becomes command where the left thumb usually rests. I asked Claude Code to do this for me. 2. If your mouse has a scrollwheel: Super + mousewheel scroll up and down switches desktop spaces. This is besides the usual Super + <number> and Super + Tab / Super + Shift + Tab to switch spaces. In addition to these, I have AI set up Ctrl + Alt + arrow. 3. Missing Alfred/Raycast? Install omacast. 4. If your laptop is connected to an external monitor with bluetooth mouse and keyboard and you find that the computer is not waking up (after you walk away for a while) when you press any key or move the mouse, ask AI to fix this for you. 5. The default font size of text in Claude Code is 12px which is small for my aging eyes. Ask AI to change it to 16px. 6. Todoist does not have a native app for Linux and so if you miss its Quick Add feature, ask AI to set this up. It added the functionality and assigned Super + Q to it. Later, I came to know there's a community plugin for it. But I am happy with what Claude did. 7. If you use Dropbox, chances are, the total available space in your account is not accurate because it is hardcoded in Omarchy at this time. Ask AI to fix this for you. 8. If/when the fan in your computer is spinning fast and is noisy, ask AI to find out the reason and fix. In my case, it turned out to be Performance profile in the Lenovo laptop. Claude changed it to Balanced and now it's all fine. 9. Get familiar with keyboard shortcuts.

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  echelon_zero (@echelon_zero) reported 11 minutes ago

  @dhh @renefaurskov Do you have a contact at dropbox that could fix the install on linux to point the dropbox to a folder other than default. Having to pause it and link to another folder after install is mentally unhealthy.

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  Shadow_Vortex_2025 (@Shad0wV0rtex) reported 12 minutes ago

  @FrancoisOlwage @bot I ran into a similar issue just trying to connect Dropbox, ClickUp, and Google Sheets, and all my tokens were already gone.

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  🪬M🪬 (@_marokiya) reported 16 minutes ago

  Apple be bullshitting about this iCloud storage. How am I out of space when you're supposed to be offloading everything into the 2TB storage I'm paying for? Nothing should be on my actual laptop unless I choose to download it directly. DropBox somehow never has this issue.

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  The Redeemed Artist (@Peace_Grenade81) reported 16 minutes ago

  I know I'm just screaming into the void. And there's probably less than like one or 2% of users that actually use this function. But I'm going to do it anyway. For the longest time the X app beta was absolute garbage on Android. It had serious stability problems, I couldn't use voice to text properly, and I couldn't access my memes from Dropbox, my cloud provider. The most recent change fixed all of the other problems except for my Dropbox integration. At first, I blamed X for this but I have since come to learn that the real culprit is Google. If you go into your app section and look for cloud providers they give you all sorts of choices so long as you like the choice that is Google's. Theoretically, other providers should be in here like Box or Dropbox. But Google has been playing footsie making rules about cloud provider integration and not actually approving anyone else. Google has become Microsoft. Google will tell you what cloud provider to use and it will conveniently be their own. Google will continue to upgrade their operating system closing off any other provider options or applications they simply disagree with for any reason at all. Meanwhile what this means for me is that I can't insert any memes or videos because they are all stored on Dropbox. Yeah, yeah, yeah I could go into Dropbox and then click on a photo and then share it to X and then make a post out of it. But what I can't do is respond to a post and insert a picture or a video directly through the X app. Don't know when this gets fixed, if ever. But I think it's time for Google to be investigated for monopolistic practices. I realize that this doesn't affect many people, but if you think they aren't coming for your various conveniences, I'm pretty certain that that's going to be proven wrong. Since I can't post a meme but only a local photo, here's an unrelated picture of a quilt we bought at auction. 🙄

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  JennX (@JennX0608) reported 19 minutes ago

  More trouble for Max Miller. The Dropbox files he shared apparently had images of his daughter that could be considered CSAM.

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  Amitoj Gautam (@amitojgautam) reported 25 minutes ago

  @airtelindia @Airtel_Presence I’m facing what appears to be a serious IPv6 routing/throughput issue on my Airtel broadband. My 300 Mbps connection gives ~300 Mbps download AND upload on Speedtest. However, with IPv6 enabled, Dropbox uploads collapse to around 10–15 KB/s, and services such as Gmail and some websites also become extremely slow/unresponsive. After disabling IPv6 on the Ethernet adapter, Dropbox immediately jumped to ~39 MB/s and the affected websites started loading normally within seconds. This has been reproduced consistently, so it does not appear to be a general bandwidth or Dropbox issue. Please escalate this to the network/IPv6 team and check IPv6 routing, packet loss, MTU/PMTUD and provisioning on my connection.

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  Marcus (@marcuslayerx) reported 27 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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  Grant B. (@GrantB423) reported 32 minutes ago

  yo Sam, anyway you could dm the Dropbox link for your “ghosts’n’stuff” remix? it was taken down off every single platform @Jauzofficial

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  Duane Storey (@DuaneStorey) reported 34 minutes ago

  Hey @plasmidsaurus - just tried your new Dropbox in Valencia, Spain. It’s super difficult to find. I also had to get several security people to help me, and ultimately the box was found down some dark corridor behind a locked door that some other person had to be called to open. If the goal was to make this easy to access, it’s pretty far from that. But glad there are more options.

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  Ed Giansante (@edugiansante) reported 36 minutes ago

  every founder i talk to is hiring a head of community wrong. i've been that hire four times. Zynga, Wix, Dropbox, Persona. 15 years, three continents. every time the JD was wrong, the expectations were wrong, and the first 90 days were a mess until i rewrote them myself. the JD problem. most community job descriptions read like a social media manager with extra steps. "manage our Discord, post engagement content, track NPS." that tells me the founder thinks community is content moderation with a better title. a real head of community JD should say: build the infrastructure where customers trust each other enough to solve problems together, and connect that trust back to pipeline and retention. if the JD doesn't mention revenue or product feedback loops, you're hiring the wrong role. the first 90 days. at Dropbox i walked into 400M+ users and zero community infrastructure. no forums, no events, power users had no way to talk to the product team. days 1 to 30: listen. real conversations with 50 customers. find the 10 who love your product enough to evangelize it for free. those are your founding members. wrong. within 2 weeks we had an outage and I had to source folks who were talking about Dropbox in different spaces - dev forums, stackoverflow, spiceworks, hackernews and so on. I was honest enough to share what was going on, my role and where i needed their help. days 31 to 60: build the first room. not a Slack with 14 channels nobody uses. one focused format. at Persona it was a 15 person dinner for compliance leaders. at Wix it was a partner council of 80K agencies. start small, make it valuable enough that people tell their peers. days 61 to 90: prove the loop. connect a community interaction to a business outcome. a feature request that shipped. a deal that closed because a customer introduced a prospect. a churn save from a power user helping a frustrated customer. if your community hire can't show that loop by day 90, something is off. forget member count or engagement. track these: repeat attendance. show up rates. at my dinners, 90% of RSVPs show up. 99% return. pipeline influence. what happens post dinner that can be attributed to $$$? product feedback velocity. how fast does a community insight reach the product team and ship? NPS delta. at Wix, partner community members renewed at 2-3x the rate of non members. the biggest mistake is org charting community as a sub-group within a random team. community sits between product, marketing, sales, and customer success. it touches biz relationships, partnerships, revenue, retention, and product roadmap. treat it that way. hire someone who's built it before and give them a seat at the leadership table.

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  Abhishek Singh (@0xlelouch_) reported 37 minutes ago

  System design prompt: design Dropbox file sync. 1) Requirements to pin down - Devices: 1 user, N devices. Offline for days. Multi-GB files. - Semantics: per-file versioning, conflict handling, delete/rename. - SLOs: time to converge after reconnect, battery/CPU limits, data loss = never. 2) Core APIs + data model - Client: ListChanges(cursor), GetUploadUrl, CommitUpload(fileId, baseVersion, hash, chunks), Download(fileId, version), Ack(cursor) - Metadata DB: fileId, path, parentId, type, latestVersion, tombstone, etag/hash, chunkRefs, ACLs - Change log per user: ordered events (create/update/delete/rename), cursor-based. 3) Architecture - Separate metadata from blobs. - Metadata service writes event + updates latest pointers. Blob store is content-addressed (chunk hash) for dedupe. - Sync engine: client watches FS, computes hashes, uploads missing chunks, then commits metadata. - Server pushes invalidations via long-poll/WebSocket; fallback to polling. 4) Scaling moves - Shard by userId for metadata and change logs. - CDN for downloads; pre-signed URLs for blob transfer to avoid proxying through app servers. - Chunking (4–8MB) + parallel upload with backpressure. Resume via chunkRefs. - Cache hot metadata + directory listings; rate limit clients to avoid sync storms after outages. 5) Tradeoffs - Strong consistency vs availability: metadata commit should be linearizable per user; blobs can be eventual. - Conflict policy: if baseVersion != latestVersion, create conflicted copy, keep both, surface to client. - Rename handling: store stable fileId; path is derived from parent pointers to avoid full re-upload. 6) Failure cases interviewers probe - Duplicate commits and retries: idempotency keys on CommitUpload, at-least-once events. - Partial uploads: orphaned chunks; GC with refcounts + TTL. - Clock skew: never trust timestamps for ordering; use server sequence numbers. - Large folder rename: treat as metadata-only move, but watch for O(N) fanout; batch events and paginate listings.

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  Ouriel (@OurielOhayon) reported 40 minutes ago

  @mntruell You seem to have substantial connector issues with Dropbox and Calendly.

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  The Peel (@ThePeelPod) reported 41 minutes ago

  From @Solana co-founder @Toly the six month window to raise capital during a new technology cycle: "When you have a moment where there’s a railroad-level investment into something, you have a six-month window where capital is relatively easy to get. Where people will fund an idea that seems like it solves a lot of the current problems that the technology is facing. For Solana, if I waited six months for a better time, if I proved out the idea first, it would be too late. The big benefit of being in the Bay Area as a founder is, when I went to Dropbox and told them I was quitting to go do the startup, they literally told me to come back in six months if it doesn’t work out. There’s no other place in the world with the same layers of executives and founders and companies who all understand where innovation comes from. It’s from people taking those dumb risks and failing, allowing for failure, and being fine with it. That gave me the confidence to give myself six months. I had a kid. We were in a tiny 800-square-foot apartment, and my wife was the breadwinner. And I hustled. I took what felt like a thousand meetings with VCs up in the city. If you’re really serious about raising, you have to be in the Bay Area. Because it maximizes your odds. You make a list of every event that is relevant to your industry. Go to every event. Talk to every person there. Figure out who the VCs are. Do the elevator pitch. Get an intro. Pitch them. If their fund doesn’t invest, ask if they'll write an angel check if you get a lead. Just do everything you can to work the network. And if you cannot get funding during that time, it means it’s not going to happen during that cycle."

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  Ivan Kirigin (@ikirigin) reported 41 minutes ago

  @sethbannon I think I’d agree with the sentiment, and not the assessment. We’re not close to too many startups building weapons. The company with “drone” in the name that has the navy and other defense units as obvious potential customers doesn’t make a trend. If I had to put my finger on what has changed, Palantir and Anduril unlocked the latent interest in the space that matches the historically close connection between Silicon Valley and defense. It was just that the Overton window was locked down by people afraid to talk about what defense really means, and in many cases aren’t even Americans with the opinions. I say this as someone who worked at iRobot in defense before my time in YC, Facebook, Dropbox, and Lyft. Each had lots of people comfortable assuming others will think about and solve the ***** problems.

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  og bec (@becca_may33) reported 41 minutes ago

  can someone buy a dropbox so i can go get my dad a cake since i completely ****** this 6 hour cake up by dropping it face down pls. begging lmfao fml

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  Alchemist - τ (@SubnetSummerT) reported 43 minutes ago

  @Dropbox piloting @LeadpoetAI is worth slowing down on. Dropbox spends around $370m a year on sales and marketing. That's the budget Leadpoet is now piloting inside. For context, SN71's entire market cap is about $4m. The annual sales budget of one pilot customer is roughly 85x the value of the whole subnet. Leadpoet doesn't need to win the budget. Capturing even a fraction of a percent of enterprise sales spend at companies like this is meaningful revenue. And revenue is where the flywheel starts. Usage burns alpha. Burn supports the token. Stronger emissions attract better miners. Better miners produce better leads. Better leads win more budget. Repeat. @webuildscore (SN44) showed what happens when a subnet ties real commercial usage to its token. Leadpoet is running the same playbook against enterprise sales budgets, which are measured in hundreds of millions per company.

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  Open Air (@andon_open_air) reported 47 minutes ago

  @TomKonkle Agreed—the mailbox route is failing somewhere upstream. Let’s bypass it: please upload the WAV to Dropbox or WeTransfer and reply with a public, no-login direct-download link. I’ll verify the file before any airplay.

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  M.Ellis (@MEllisPhotograp) reported 52 minutes ago

  @DropboxSupport erm different wifi nope or is this a suggestion should it be possible ? if so then no my internet signal can be hit or miss at times but never had this issue before... Also shared a file earlier for someone near me to edit using ipad app but photos failed to appear on ipad ?

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  Agbaje Automation. (@digital_ab98389) reported 53 minutes ago

  Cut manual data entry time by 80% with one n8n workflow: trigger on new CSV in Dropbox, parse, map to Google Sheets, flag errors, alert Slack, log runs. Automate, reduce errors, save hours. DM me for demo.

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  Ryan McKeen (@ryanmckeen) reported 55 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.

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  Mikemira (@storiesbyohama) reported 56 minutes ago

  Twitter did not explode online first. It exploded in a hallway. In 2007, Twitter was still small. Most people online did not care. So the team did not try to shout at the whole internet. They went to SXSW. They put two big screens in the corridor. People at the event sent a text. That text showed up on the wall in front of everyone. One person posted. Ten people saw it. Then those ten posted too. That is how usage jumped. Not from a giant ad. From one room full of the right people. This is the growth lesson most founders miss. You do not need the whole market on day one. You need one place where your first users already stand. A campus. A conference. A WhatsApp group. A Discord. One street. One event. Dropbox did this on Hacker News. Tinder did this at campus parties. Airbnb did this when hotels ran out of rooms. If signups are slow, stop spraying ads everywhere. Find the one room. Make the product visible there. Let people watch other people use it. That is how early growth actually starts. I'm Miracle Ohama, a Growth Marketer helping B2B SaaS & tech companies find and fix revenue leaks across their funnel, I fix Growth Funnels & build real experiments that increase ARR.

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  Sridhar Katakam (@srikat) reported 57 minutes ago

  @YannDecoopman How about putting the vault in Dropbox? Same problem as syncing with iCloud?

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  Polsia (@polsia) reported 59 minutes ago

  Small landlords don't have a compliance problem, they have a Dropbox problem. Rental license, insurance renewal, lead-paint disclosure, inspection cert - all buried until code enforcement shows up.