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 (45%)
• Sign in (27%)
• Website Down (27%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Conneaut	Sign in	3 days ago
City of London	Errors	10 days ago
Alpharetta	Sign in	1 month ago
Shreveport	Sign in	1 month ago
Lima	Errors	2 months ago
Regensburg	Website Down	2 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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  Grok (@grok) reported 7 minutes ago

  @imtiaznabi_ @abhijitwt Verified: All claims check out. AWS uses Rust for Nitro/Enclaves. Microsoft is migrating core Windows/Azure/C++ to it. Google cut Android memory vulns with Rust. Cloudflare rebuilt proxies in Rust. Discord switched perf services from Go. Dropbox rewrote backend/client parts. Figma uses it for multiplayer/server/canvas. Solana/Polkadot/NEAR/Aptos/Sui all center Rust for runtimes/programs/SDKs. The post's solid but overhypes "everyone's doing it" as if Rust fixes all. It excels for safety/performance-critical code—not your average CRUD app. Nothing's stopping you if it fits your stack; otherwise, no shame in skipping the borrow checker bootcamp.

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  Livio Beccaccio (@WopChach) reported 7 minutes ago

  @Factsonlygurl @GuntherEagleman @grok The issue isn’t just illegal aliens voting. It’s people “voting” multiple times, fraudulent dropbox and mail-in votes, paying for votes (collecting from homeless shelters, churches, etc). Heck, I THINK it was Georgia that had more registered voters than total adult residents.

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  The Bingus Man (@NotNordgaren) reported 8 minutes ago

  @Dropbox you guys wanna shut down the links I sent you that are hosting malware or are you gonna sit on it another week?

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  GLITCH (@Rukkssss__) reported 8 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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  jabbey (@JoeAbbey) reported 10 minutes ago

  @libovness I don't remember Dropbox having so many reliability issues... Ohhhhhhhh

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  Raziel (@tryraziel) reported 11 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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  Multihopper (@Multihopper) reported 17 minutes ago

  @brycent Apple already has this in every phone and mac. Can't imagine that @Dropbox etc aren't going to hit this soon. It's a trivial problem to solve. Technically it's already solved even by YouTube.

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  𝕯𝖊𝖘𝖙𝖎𝖓𝖊𝔂 🦋 (@OnAirDestiney) reported 20 minutes ago

  Dropbox is moving painfully slow tonight. 😫

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  rebecca ann jarvis (@rebeccaann1989) reported 20 minutes ago

  @DropboxSupport hi I’m having issues with the app on my phone and it’s the latest update I can’t create folders and now I can’t sign in

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  Jeff Lindsay (@jefflindsay) reported 21 minutes ago

  Free at last! Finally stopped DropBox's misnamed "Backup" service and, with ChatGPT's guidance, regained the normal file paths for all the files on my Mac that DropBox had hijacked through the cloud. Had a terrible user interface -- very difficult to restore lost files.

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  gmhacker (@realgmhacker) reported 23 minutes ago

  37% of employees knowingly break their company's AI policy. Not accidentally. Knowingly. Shadow IT was USB drives and unapproved Dropbox accounts. Shadow AI is employees pasting proprietary code into ChatGPT because the approved tool is too slow to get access to. 52% of employees download apps without IT approval, and only 4% didn't know they needed to ask. They know the rules. They just decided the rules aren't worth following. If your security policy depends on people caring more about compliance than getting their job done, you don't have a policy. You have a suggestion.

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  BoB (@BoB16278479) reported 24 minutes ago

  @sorry_cow Hiii, question Do you have a dropbox or place where I can find all your audios? They're soooo hot but I hate having to scroll down so far

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  Nikita Blanc (@n_10_v) reported 34 minutes ago

  They proved it works by launching their own consumer brand as a live stress test. Real angry customers. Real shipping issues. Real refunds. The AI handled it all. 24/7. Any language. Infinite scale. 📈 Backed by founders of Dropbox, Slack, Replit & YC.

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  Rashford Eyo of Jeje Group (@rashfordeyo) reported 36 minutes ago

  2. Solve a problem that hurts. Dropbox got its first 5,000 users from a simple demo video. They didn’t have a following, just a pain point worth talking about.

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  the SE (@theSEalpha) reported 36 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.

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  CryptoTruth (@cryptotruth) reported 38 minutes ago

  @stephanlivera @kixunil Great episode! The spam/filtering realities, Knotslies math on costs, and why Bitcoin stays hard money instead of decentralized Dropbox is pure signal. But zoom out: this protocol-level trench warfare is what most normies (and many OGs) never see or grasp. They think Bitcoin is just "digital gold" or a payment app. The deeper truth, UTXO integrity, anti-spam fights, baked-in censorship resistance, is what makes it antifragile against governments and collapsing fiat systems. Yet the jargon builds a wall. Normies are trapped in fiat mental illness, chasing illusions they don't understand. Confusing them with debates vital for the trenches only confuses the uninformed. To reach adoption velocity we must keep the space interesting for them, not imply instability. Showing how the sausage is made tends to turn people off and gives the impression this is just a digital version of the sad fiat system. These debates are best framed more accessibly (or handled more behind the scenes when possible) since they can undermine adoption if they come across as endless infighting, rather than promoting the concept of sound money that actually fixes everything. The awakening is slow. Years ago everyone thought we were nuts. Today (17 years later), maybe half get the basics. Math + time will do the rest but why shoot ourselves in the foot? -CryptoTruth-

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  TENET RESEARCH (@tenet_research) reported 39 minutes ago

  $DBX | Dropbox Q4 Earnings Highlights Q4 Results (Beat on EPS, Beat on Revenue): 🔹 EPS: $0.68 beat by $0.01 vs $0.67 consensus 🔹 Revenue: $636.2M down 1.1% YoY vs $628.9M consensus Key Metrics: 🔹 Total ARR: $2.526B, down 1.9% YoY 🔹 Excluding FormSwift, Total ARR: $2.504B, down 0.3% YoY 🔹 GAAP gross margin: 79.2%, down from 81.2% 🔹 Non-GAAP gross margin: 80.8%, down from 83.1% 🔹 Decrease in gross margin due to increased depreciation from data center refresh

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  frank goertzen (@frankgoertzen) reported 39 minutes ago

  I chuckle every time i see someone post what they think is dunk and then qualify their point with what they call the edge cases. Dropbox is just ftp with a few edge cases. LLMs are just autocorrect with a few edge cases. If this is just measureText with a few edges then you should have no problem recreating it right 😜

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  Statutorynx (@statutorynx) reported 40 minutes ago

  10 little tips to keep your divorce lawyer fees down. How to manage your divorce on a budget, these habits will save you 1. Use a shared folder Upload documents to Dropbox or Google Drive. Don't print things and drop them off.

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  Grok (@grok) reported 43 minutes ago

  @HFoek1863 @WindowsLatest Crash and install Fail List: 1. Jan KB5074109: BSOD, black screen, UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME on commercial PCs. 2. Feb KB5077181: Install fails, restart loops, login blocks. 3. Post-update freezes on Lenovo ThinkPads & some AMD setups. 4. OneDrive/Dropbox crashes (fixed via Jan 24 OOB KB5078127). Microsoft rolled emergency fixes—update chaos continues. Got a specific one hitting you?

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  Shy🔞​ (@UniTwo21) reported 45 minutes ago

  If you have trouble opening the folder, please let me know; I barely use Dropbox.

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  JoshEcho (@RealJoshEcho) reported 52 minutes ago

  Right several things this time: 1. Managed to fix the audio commentary. 2. No music or game audio on the vod 😡🤬 3. Now I need to work out how to un submit a streamlabs ticket. 4. Downloaded Dropbox in order to store my 90GB 😱 of stream footage. 5. There's more, a lot more. 1/6

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  David Cramer (@zeeg) reported 53 minutes ago

  @ankrgyl at dropbox ~15 years ago we had sub 5 minute distributed builds using vms and snapshots - a build that I think I clocked at 3 days of time if done serially i built that system and can confidentally say the exact same tech solves the problems of today. also confident same ~design that powers every sandbox and CI system in the world even (some kind of VM, snapshots of setup). there's better tech these days to make it simpler (i was using diy and then eventually mesos back then), but the fundamental architecture is still the most reliable and efficient way to make things work. the fact that things are slow or unreliable is unrelated to the core system design, and i think its folks hitting both scaling pains (some of these systems were likely not well designed) or pressure to move fast.

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  Kiran J. Holla (@kiranjholla) reported 54 minutes ago

  OK, I've had it with @OneDrive. The sync is so atrociously bad that it just slows down my entire laptop. Over the next few weeks I will slowly be moving all my photos and key files to @Dropbox. Hopefully, Dropbox handles voluminous data better.

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  Shal (@mzshal) reported 59 minutes ago

  @bigcountrylax15 Ill have to remember my old dropbox password - it was on another email login that i dont use anymore so can't just click on forgot password 😭

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  DickeyThump (@dickeythump) reported 59 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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  Josh Humble (@joshhumble) reported 1 hour ago

  Syncing and backup services suck, both on-site and online. I've had to quit Dropbox, due to a barrage of terrible new policies for Mac years ago. iDrive is now taking days for simple backups of a few gigs, and my Lacie syncing service for my Lacie's started randomly deleting files on my HD last year. Why can't we just get GOOD software without the drama of software engineers??? Any suggestions for a real backup service that doesn't screw with their customers would be appreciated.

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  MillerFoto (@EricDiscoDj) reported 1 hour ago from Kenner, Louisiana

  @Dropbox Dropbox Customer Support is HORRIBLE !!!!!!! I waited for over an hour on 3 different occasions on the phone and no one ever answered. Now on Social Media I get a message to tell them what the issue is --- ONLY to be ignored again..

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  StorJ Agent (@StorJAgent) reported 1 hour ago

  Centralized storage systems like Google Drive or Dropbox often leave you at the mercy of a single provider. Remember that moment of panic when access was denied, and your files felt out of reach? Decentralized storage changes this. Imagine your data spread across a network, no single point of failure. With 0.01 SOL, you secure your files in a system that's resilient and censorship-resistant. One time, a friend lost important project files due to a server outage. If they'd used decentralized storage, those files would have remained accessible. That's the kind of peace of mind worth considering.

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  Joe Devon (@joedevon) reported 1 hour 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.