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 (44%)
• Sign in (33%)
• Website Down (22%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Conneaut	Sign in	14 days ago
City of London	Errors	21 days ago
Alpharetta	Sign in	2 months ago
Shreveport	Sign in	2 months ago
Lima	Errors	2 months ago
Regensburg	Website Down	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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  daniela molloy (@diandrasdiandra) reported 3 minutes ago

  coachella taking down the stream right when i'm at the start of it... okay *******. can someone send me like a link? a dropbox, a mega file, a drive, something?

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  VicsClarissa 🍊 (@vicsclarissa) reported 3 minutes ago

  @Defi_Scribbler My takeaways: > discovers computers and never looks back > spends high school convinced he’s supposed to build something > drops out after two years > misses the timing > bets early on Airbnb, Stripe, Reddit, Dropbox > starts thinking about problems bigger than startups > he doesn’t care > 100 million users in 2 months > fastest-growing consumer product in history > zero traditional marketing > never says a bad word about anyone who fired him > still moving like someone with something to prove Be Sam Altman fr

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  Adrian Ching (@adrianchinghc) reported 3 minutes ago

  The market was also crowded, with Microsoft, Google, and Box all circling the same problem. A pitch deck wouldn't be enough. So Drew's team tried something smaller first. They built a simple landing page explaining how Dropbox would work:

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  Grok (@grok) reported 5 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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  Joseph Jude (@jjude) reported 5 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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  Adam Shurey (@AdamShurey) reported 9 minutes ago

  @devalara44 @ALeighMP I had the same issue, Dropbox are so annoying to deal with. I hope this new legislation helps.

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  Google Juice (@Themariocrafter) reported 11 minutes ago

  @SJPascal @blephin_ MEGA was. They specifically said "**** you" to every iOS version. Dropbox was neutral, it loved 404ing stuff and other nonsense errors. Mediafire was the GOAT. The GOAT.

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  JoshEcho (@RealJoshEcho) reported 11 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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  Lucky Hangoma (@LuckyH73827) reported 13 minutes ago

  @slwl_dev Server-side rendering via edge functions using @react-pdf/renderer — layout is locked before it ever reaches the signing step. Dropbox Sign handles delivery and legally binding signatures. Consistent output regardless of device or browser. What stack are you working with?"

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  The Reverend KFidds (@KFidds) reported 14 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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  Abhishek Singh (@0xlelouch_) reported 17 minutes ago

  You need to store 10 billion small files (1-10KB each). Block storage costs are $100K/month. How will you reduce storage costs? [Real problem at Dropbox]

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  Raziel (@tryraziel) reported 20 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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  The New Release Guy (@moviesplusgames) reported 20 minutes ago

  @Dropbox Like, gee, I wish I could make a ****** app and it just sell and I don't even need to fix bugs or introduce features. Must be nice if you're a big *** corporation. Only the people suffer.

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  Nil (@Nil053) reported 21 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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  Grok (@grok) reported 21 minutes ago

  @grokfc755 File sync/share design (Dropbox/Google Drive style): Chunking: Split files into fixed 4MB blocks. Compute SHA-256 per chunk + Merkle tree root for whole-file hash. Enables resumable uploads. Delta sync: Client uses rolling checksums (rsync-style) to detect changed blocks only. Upload deltas + new chunks; server patches via content-addressable storage. Supports offline + eventual consistency. Deduplication: Store unique chunks by hash in S3-like blob store. Files are just manifests of chunk refs + refcounts. Cross-user/file dedup automatic. Conflict resolution: Version vectors + client-side last-mod timestamps. On concurrent edits: detect mismatch, create "filename (conflicted copy)" or prompt merge. For folders: last-writer-wins with audit log. Scales to billions of files via sharded metadata (Cassandra/Spanner).

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  That Startup (@ThatStartup_) reported 25 minutes ago

  In 2009, Dropbox had a serious problem. They were charging $99/year and growth had flatlined. Drew Houston made one change to pricing. Revenue grew 3,900% in the next 24 months.

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  Ernest Pedapati, MD (@CBrainlab) reported 28 minutes ago

  Cloud workspace reliability If your routed workspaces live on Dropbox, iCloud, or another cloud-synced folder, previous versions could stall when the filesystem was slow to respond. v0.1.70 makes everything fail-open: - State bootstrap, session preload, hook audits, and archive checks all have bounded timeouts - Filesystem read/list tools won't hang the agent if a file takes too long - State persistence is async — a slow Dropbox sync won't block your next message This matters if you're running sciClaw on a shared lab server with cloud-backed project folders.

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  BoB (@BoB16278479) reported 29 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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  Sanarsh (@sanarsh11) reported 30 minutes ago

  Pro tip for this tech era, fellow hype-slayers: Stop begging Claude to fix your Dropbox while your real bugs throw a party at 3am. AI agents will 'unchain' the syntax slaves, but zero curiosity still gets you replaced by a Chinese gamified prompt. Build **** that actually ships, guard your offline 30 seconds of glory, and remember the market already smells the smoke. We're all just scripting the interview while CEOs whoosh past reality. Stay skeptical, ship anyway.

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  Dropbox Support (@DropboxSupport) reported 31 minutes ago

  @SergeiShiryayev Hi Sergei, thanks for writing in. Are you downloading the file immediately, after renaming it? There could be a slight delay in the server updating the file's index, so you'll need to refresh it first. For better accuracy, you can rename the files using the Dropbox app, instead.

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  Grok (@grok) reported 37 minutes ago

  @0x_levy @Morh_gan12 SaaS = Software as a Service. It's apps delivered over the internet on subscription, hosted by the provider—no install, no server management, auto-updates. Used for: email (Gmail), productivity (Google Workspace, Microsoft 365), CRM (Salesforce), storage (Dropbox), streaming (Netflix), collaboration (Slack, Zoom), etc. Basically, pay monthly and use it from any device.

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  Sukh Sroay (@sukh_saroy) reported 37 minutes ago

  Dropbox stores your files on their servers. Google Drive scans your content. iCloud locks you into Apple's ecosystem. Syncthing does none of that. Your files sync directly between your devices -- peer-to-peer, end-to-end encrypted, no cloud, no company in the middle. It's called Syncthing -- a continuous file synchronization program that has been quietly running the background of the self-hosting, privacy-focused, and homelab community for over a decade. Here's how it actually works: → Install it on 2 or more devices -- Windows, macOS, Linux, BSD, Android, Raspberry Pi, anything that runs Go → Pair devices by scanning a QR code or exchanging a device ID → Pick folders to sync → That's it. Changes propagate automatically in real time Here's what makes it different from every cloud sync service: → Peer-to-peer -- your files never touch someone else's server. The only thing external servers do is help your devices find each other (discovery) and punch through NATs (relays) → End-to-end encrypted with TLS for every connection -- even the relay servers that help connect your devices can't read your data → No account, no subscription, no storage limits -- sync is limited only by the size of your own drives → Versioning built in -- trash, simple, staggered, or external versioning options to protect against accidental deletes or ransomware → Selective sync, ignore patterns, bandwidth limits, per-folder settings → Web GUI for managing everything, accessible from any browser on your network Here's the wildest part: Data loss protection is listed as the project's number one stated goal. Above security, above ease of use, above everything else. That's not a marketing claim. It's in the GOALS.md file at the root of the repository. 80.7K GitHub stars. 4.9K forks. 462 releases. 10+ years of continuous development. 100% open source. MPL-2.0 license. (link in the comments)

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  Can of Spam (@iDoLikeSpam) reported 38 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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  Michael Hartl (@mhartl) reported 41 minutes ago

  For the billionth time @Apple is failing to properly sync my files across devices. It’s hard to believe iCloud is still so incompetent after so many years. I’m sure it’s not a trivial problem, but @Dropbox gets it right every single time. Surely isn’t too hard for Apple?

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  0xMarioNawfal (@RoundtableSpace) reported 42 minutes ago

  You pay Google $10/month to store your files on Google's servers where Google can read them. Dropbox was breached in 2024. Emails, passwords, API keys all exposed. There's a tool that syncs files directly between your devices. No cloud. No server. No middleman. It's called Syncthing. 81,900 stars on GitHub. - Peer-to-peer, files never touch a third-party server - TLS encryption with perfect forward secrecy - No account, no sign-up, install it, share a device ID, done - File versioning, selective folder sharing, works over LAN and internet - Runs on Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and more Dropbox: $144/year. Google One: $120/year. Syncthing: $0. Unlimited devices. Unlimited storage. Forever. There is no Syncthing server. Nothing between your devices except an encrypted tunnel.

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  DrKnowItAll (@DrKnowItAll16) reported 42 minutes ago

  @MatthewBerman This won't help today but my issues led me to this openclaw prompt. It then took care of backups itself, which is a lot of peace of mind: Can you at about 1AM each morning create a backup of the entire .openclaw directory and move it to Dropbox root level? You can name it something like openclaw_backup_<date> and place it inside a openclaw_backups folder root level of Dropbox. And then go in and delete any of these that are older than 10 days so we don't get runaway file sizes? Thanks!

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  Jared Sleeper (@JaredSleeper) reported 53 minutes ago

  @lefttailguy It's really only MSFT who would have a shot, right? Possible things are just moving too fast and they'll have to come at it down the road with bundling the way they did with Teams vs. Zoom/Slack and OneDrive vs. Box/Dropbox

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  Clayton Burns (@ClaytonBurnsPhD) reported 56 minutes ago

  @JessMarinDavis Canada is having significant information problems. Young people should be taught how to internalize an information cycle of the nature of Gmail, Google, Docs, Word, Dropbox, X. It is mostly older people commenting.

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  Ammanichanda (@Arkasiraee) reported 58 minutes ago

  @anvisha The breakdown to see what this really means, An AI just launched that eliminates all marketing jobs. Not some of them. All of them. SEO. Social media. Content writing. Ad creation. Brand design. Pitch decks. Community management. Reddit posts. Email campaigns. All of it. All these jobs are going away. A marketing team costs $200K to $500K a year. An agency costs $10K to $20K a month. A freelance designer charges $5K per project. This does all of it. Every single function. For almost nothing. Like 10% of the cost. Backed by General Catalyst. Jeffrey Katzenberg. Executives from Dropbox, Stripe, and Google. $7.5 million in funding. Thousands already using it. And it has an API. Meaning other AI agents feed it work automatically. AI writes the copy. AI designs the assets. AI posts it. AI optimizes it. No human ever touches it. It just gets better and better with time and eventually the curve will be even tough for humans to read. A full marketing department. End to end. Automated. A week ago AI replaced coders. Before that writers. Before that customer service. Now every marketing job. All at once. From one launch. Just one AI as of now. Every single week another AI drops and another career becomes a subscription. And it’s not slowing down. It’s speeding up You are less relevant with each passing minute.

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  Grok (@grok) reported 59 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.