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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.

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Most Reported Problems

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  • 44% Sign in (44%)
  • 44% Errors (44%)
  • 11% Website Down (11%)

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

CityProblem TypeReport Time
Paramaribo Errors 5 days ago
Bogotá Website Down 5 days ago
Auxerre Errors 5 days ago
Salt Lake City Sign in 8 days ago
Madrid Errors 23 days ago
Conneaut Sign in 1 month ago
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Dropbox Issues Reports

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  • anirudhology
    Anirudh Sharma (@anirudhology) reported

    @0xlelouch_ This is a classic small-file storage problem and Dropbox actually solved it by building "Magic Pocket": an in-house object store. The issue with block storage is that it wastes massive space on per-file metadata and partial-block fills. For 10B files, this overhead can cost up to $ 90K/month. Pragmatically, we can pack small files into large (~4MB) immutable blobs which are called "extents" or "superblobs". We write them sequentially, index with a content-hash to blob-offset mapping stored separately. This removes per-file filesystem overhead, reduces metadata pressure, and allows efficient erasure coding across whole blobs. We should also have a tiering policy where we compress blobs and move cold data to low-cost deep archive. Dedup at file level can also be incorporated. This combination can cut costs by 70-90% while keeping latency bounded by the index lookup.

  • KenBarrettHQ
    Ken Barrett (@KenBarrettHQ) reported

    I run 5 unattended 24 hour laundromats, raining 5 grandkids, and have too many ideas. And currently spending too many late nights diving into the AI world. Some minor accomplishments so far have been: : Set up Open Claw named Bob : Reorganized all my Dropbox files into 9 main categories : Had Bob provide an LOI for a complicated CRE purchase. Including environmental issues. : Any updates to the CRE LOI I just talk into Telegram and it updates the history. : Currently building a Business Continuity Plan. This will include all leases, contacts, insurance etc etc. : Side note. I just copied all my Leases into a folder and got a spreadsheet of all the details including renewal dates. : Analysis of last 1/4 and last years refunds for concerns at my laundromats provided in charts. : Working through 5 steps at a time to build the business income. : Used CoWork to update 22 FAQ’s on my website and Service on GMB specific to each laundromat location. Next small steps: : Load all the parts manuals for my equipment and compare to my inventory in Sortly to update where the parts are used and which parts are obsolete. : Continue to work on Bob providing daily report of all of my systems. SimpliSafe ( ran into some issues with this), RING cameras, Lorex cameras, Woosh filter monitors, ATM balances, TV’s, vending machines and changers. So far I’m not building and shipping products but making my own operations smoother is the goal.

  • theSEalpha
    the SE (@theSEalpha) reported

    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.

  • ClaytonBurnsPhD
    Clayton Burns (@ClaytonBurnsPhD) reported

    @jayvanbavel There should be a phone day each week at school so students could learn an information cycle: Gmail, Google, Docs, Word, Dropbox, X. It is an important way to manage information. On the phone day students could look up the words they had collected over the week. OALD App is a brilliant tool. Another aspect of learning good phone management that we have not been able to grasp yet is that direct study of the issue will be helpful. There are many clear undergrad textbooks in cognitive psychology that would be effective every year in high school. One credentialing thing such as AP Psych is weak.

  • VISportsTalk
    Isha (@VISportsTalk) reported

    @DropboxSupport Still not working

  • swyx
    swyx 🇸🇬 (@swyx) reported

    dropbox has dropped the ball. how is this a 6 billion dollar saas. ultra slow navigation, doublecharges for storage (of course, extremely happy to help you buy more storage, really ****** tools to help audit storage), terrible org/personal file structure, cant even calculate last modified for a folder. i cannot think of another company with as high a delta on how much i respect the ceo vs how much i disrespect the product. absolutely enraging.

  • VISportsTalk
    Isha (@VISportsTalk) reported

    @Dropbox Is your website down? Can't create new folders. Is everyone getting this error?

  • sarahb_paw
    Sarah 🎧🎛🎚 (@sarahb_paw) reported

    Look Dropbox, I know it's Friday afternoon but if you refuse to upload my files we both can't shut down for the weekend 😩

  • erotiqlibrarian
    Miranda Fernandez 📍ELP (@erotiqlibrarian) reported

    I re-uploaded videos to Dropbox. Everybody has 24 hours to download before I take them down to remedy Dropbox deleting them.

  • tryraziel
    Raziel (@tryraziel) reported

    Drew Houston pitched Dropbox to 76 VCs in 2007. 75 said no. The rejections were brutal: → "Storage is a commodity" → "Google will crush you" → "No one will pay for file syncing" But Houston had spotted something others missed. He wasn't building storage — he was building seamless access to your files anywhere. The 76th VC was Sequoia. They led his Series A. What changed their mind? A 4-minute demo video. Instead of explaining the technology, Houston showed a person working on multiple computers with files automatically syncing. The use case was instantly clear. That video got 75,000 signups in one day. More importantly, it proved demand before building the full product. Today Dropbox is worth $8B+. The companies that rejected them? Most don't exist anymore. The lesson: If 75 smart investors say no, either your idea is terrible — or you're explaining it wrong. What's the most rejections you've gotten before someone said yes?

  • liam_mcknight
    Liam McKnight (@liam_mcknight) reported

    @MaxNordau I’m getting false positives for phishing on Dropbox so they are being hypersensitive rn. Literally do not share links to the open internet and the number of clicks is probably near zero. Didn’t even get an email telling me about the problem. Then there was a malware false positive today that was quickly resolved within 18 hours >check these digits bro he shares his digits lolol

  • DatosDrive
    Datos Drive (@DatosDrive) reported

    🔗 INTEGRATION ECOSYSTEM Already using other tools? No problem: • Import from Google Drive/Dropbox (one-click migration) • Connect to existing calendars • Sync with email clients • API for custom integrations • Webhook support for automation Bring your existing stack. We'll make it better.

  • robsoto1511
    Rober (@robsoto1511) reported

    @MEGAprivacy would be nice if joplin could sync with mega or proton their options are onedrive dropbox and the joplin server

  • mzshal
    Shal (@mzshal) reported

    @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 😭

  • MattDevin6
    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.

  • P0tofSn33d
    ᴾᵒᵗ ᵒᶠ ˢⁿᵉᵉᵈ (@P0tofSn33d) reported

    @Revolution61858 @Liliyalyv @2WBIA_Reformed ***** y dont u got yoself a dropbox or getchu a link tree wit all da links to download or some shieet so dat when dey take down 1 link u gots all sorts of avenues? Hustler Mindset *****.

  • blueambiance_
    blue (@blueambiance_) reported

    @LaroTayoGaming I've gotten good use out of auto-syncing to Dropbox! I work on two devices, so it's nice to pick up from where I left off easily. I haven't encountered any issues with it, so I assume it's alright.

  • punishedMTL
    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.

  • Wisemenmentors
    The Wisemen Alpha (@Wisemenmentors) reported

    Told properly for the first time @toly. Soviet Ukraine. 13 years at Qualcomm. Dropbox. 4 AM at Cafe Sole with two coffees and a beer. The moment you realized the problem wasn't consensus, it was time itself.

  • markrigdon
    mark rigdon (@markrigdon) reported

    @Dropbox Been a dropbox user since 2009. But I’m now starting to question after 17 years if we can actually use this service reliably because we’ve now been trying to recover a botched sync across four business computers for five days now and three separate dropbox support people that have yet to actually fix the problem. they can’t even seem to figure out what the problem is across the three of them as they pass the buck. it’s making Dropbox look completely incompetent, which is bad. We just need all the files restored between a certain time that were deleted. But here we are five days in and can’t get anyone at Dropbox to actually do that. We can’t do it manually on our side because it’s simply too many files and we don’t even know what’s missing. come on guys can someone actually interact with me in real time, it’s bad enoug that Backblaze told us out of the blue that it stopped backing up Dropbox as a corporate decision as of April 17 without even telling us so I can’t grab from our back up to restore this absolute mess that completely stopped our business from using Dropbox for the last five days. can someone respond in real time so we can get this taken care of pretty please?

  • Gig_Digger
    𝕲𝖎𝖌 𝕯𝖎𝖌𝖌𝖊𝖗 (@Gig_Digger) reported

    @unusual_whales The problem is several years back when it started was peak Bidenflation era. It reset all prices higher, but thats also Biden should have never been put in office with dropbox stuffing.

  • tryraziel
    Raziel (@tryraziel) reported

    Drew Houston pitched Dropbox to 76 VCs in 2007. 75 said no. The rejections were brutal: → "Storage is a commodity" → "Microsoft will crush you" → "Why not just email files?" → "The market is too small" Houston was a 24-year-old MIT dropout with no enterprise sales experience. VCs couldn't see past the obvious: cloud storage already existed. But Houston understood something they missed. The problem wasn't storage — it was sync. He'd built the first version because he kept forgetting his USB drive. Every knowledge worker had the same pain: files scattered across devices, email attachments, version control chaos. The breakthrough came when Sequoia's Mike Moritz asked one question: "How big could this really get?" Houston's answer: "Every person, every file, every device." Dropbox launched in 2008 with a simple demo video. 75,000 signups overnight. Series A at $25M valuation. By 2018: IPO at $9B valuation. Today worth $8B+ with $2.5B annual revenue. The lesson: When 75 VCs say your market is too small, maybe you're seeing something they can't. What "obvious" idea do you think VCs are missing right now?

  • moviesplusgames
    The New Release Guy (@moviesplusgames) reported

    @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.

  • AIadventure3
    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.

  • ThaiKumar
    Pradeep Kumar Xplorer (@ThaiKumar) reported

    Someone is regulating my upload to Dropbox 33 mb file suddenly the network is slow

  • moviesplusgames
    The New Release Guy (@moviesplusgames) reported

    @Dropbox Maybe it is a skill issue, like ppl keep saying....bc they're WAY behind a company like X.

  • monamouroui
    Sara (@monamouroui) reported

    Why did Microsoft OneDrive just delete all of my Dropbox files? What a fracking PITA. You just created a huge problem for me. This might make me jump to a Mac. I am so disgusted and frustrated by what Microsoft running Windows 11 just did to my computer. Dozens of years of documents....whoosh. @Microsoft

  • ragtop25
    Square Circle 556 (@ragtop25) reported

    @mistressdivy I hate OneDrive but I have to use it. I liked DropBox better but many of my clients would not accept attachments due to security issues with DropBox

  • SamB_46
    Sam :) (@SamB_46) reported

    $20 to whoever sends me a Dropbox audio file of the set bc I know they’re gonna take down whatever recording gets put on SoundCloud

  • arronnes
    iamAaruna (@arronnes) reported

    Tired 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%. 🔥