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 (50%)
• Sign in (33%)
• Website Down (17%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Bournemouth	Sign in	1 month ago
Paramaribo	Errors	2 months ago
Bogotá	Website Down	2 months ago
Auxerre	Errors	2 months ago
Salt Lake City	Sign in	2 months ago
Madrid	Errors	3 months ago

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Dropbox Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  SCRIBEMOON (@SCRIBEMOON) reported 2 minutes ago

  Ok great. What do we do. What can we do. I was told We were the problem, the people who vote on Election Day, we made things go slowly. VOTE EARLY THEY SAID. I voted on May 13 via dropbox. STILL NOT COUNTED. I doorknocked for Spencer. Only threatened once- by a Cedars Sinai young white female doctor. The CORRUPTION is too overwhelming. We need FEDERAL INTERVENTION!

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  Joshatoshi #BIP-110 (@joshatoshi) reported 3 minutes ago

  @Cryptotea Core apologists want to frame this like it’s just a spam issue. It’s all about data storage and node centralization. Bitcoin, not DropBox.

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  TeX64 (@TeX64AI) reported 5 minutes ago

  that's a sync-direction race: your web edits haven't reached the local Dropbox copy yet, so Claude overwrites a stale file. nothing's lost though, Overleaf's History menu keeps every version to restore from. fix: let Dropbox finish pulling before Claude edits.

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  EVILxJUG (@EVILXJUG) reported 13 minutes ago

  🚨Your goal this week-DELETE your DIGITAL FOOTPRINT!🚨 Let me help you: ——————— ✅Purchase any 1TB-10TB SSD Storage (this is dependent on your needs) or RAID server (can be ridiculously expensive, DO NOT RAID your storage if you do not know how to build, transfer, and manage a RAID!) ✅Have additional SSD storage drives. ✅Download all your media (pic, music, documents, videos, files, etc.) from your cloud services (iCloud, Google Drive, Microsoft One, Dropbox, etc.) and store them onto your purchased/physical SSDs as a backup. ✅Permanently, DELETE all your downloaded media files from those cloud-based services. ✅Permanently, clear the trash can (recycle bin), delete your cookies, delete your cache. ✅Tech Experience: iOS 🚨Apple automatically creates backup copies of your files on your devices. 🚨Even after managing or deleting data, you often need to search deep into your file system to permanently delete these original Apple backups.🚨Media transfers to Apple devices (iPhone, iPad, etc.) take longer than expected because:✅iOS creates multiple versions of each file during the transfer: original media, optimized media (for better storage efficiency), and backup files.✅All of this processing happens in the background while the transfer is ongoing.🚨DELETE THOSE FILES! ✅Your physical storage (SSDs, NOT HHDs), should be in your “firebag” (emergency bag, in case of fire- to grab and exit immediately to safety), stored in a cool place in your home. ✅After, you do all these things, your cloud-based storages should be freed up! Take down your subscriptions to what you think you should use and afford without compromising finances and data. DO NOT up your online cloud-based storage into the 1TB range EVER again! Limiting yourself to 100-500GB of cloud-based storage will keep you in check to store things physically in your home instead of online (this is healthy for your mental and to safeguard yourself from yourself). 🚨RING Devices!: if you own any ring devices or any security monitoring devices- CREATE A STATIC (NOT DHCP), CLOSED-CIRCUIT environment! Use EVERY protocol and firewalls to maintain your integrity infrastructure. Remove all unrecognized IP devices from YOUR ENTIRE NETWORK! Use ENCRYPTIONS to securely lockdown your network! 🚨DO NOT create a “guest” profile! 🌟Sorry, I’m speaking “nerd” lol, I don’t have time to explain it in laymen’s terms.

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  Eusebiu Balan (@BalanEusebiu) reported 13 minutes ago

  @gezimqaili been on dropbox for years, never let me down honestly

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  How To AI (@HowToAI_) reported 16 minutes ago

  Google, Dropbox, and Apple are in trouble.. Someone open-source a tool that gives you unlimited cloud storage for free by using Telegram as the backend. Just log in with your Telegram ID and start uploading. → UNLIMITED storage → NO file size limits → NO subscription → NO credit card → Login in 3 seconds Google charges $120/year for 2TB. Dropbox charges $144. Apple charges $120. Telegram has been giving away infinity this whole time and you didn't know. Nobody can shut this down. 100% Open Source.

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  Valentin.exe (@PujaMak0302) reported 17 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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  ṢƘĪÑlÖVẸ́R̃ṢX🇺🇲🌷 (@skinloversx) reported 17 minutes ago

  Hey Daddy I'm down for FaceTime 💧 Dropbox and all kind of nasty content message me for menu 💦💦🍆 #dmvfreaks

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  Abhishek Singh (@0xlelouch_) reported 19 minutes ago

  Interviewer: design Dropbox file sync. I paused and asked what they meant by sync. Whole product? Or just the client protocol? Single user? Team shares? Offline edits? Large files? Mobile on spotty networks? End to end encryption? What’s the SLO for conflict rate and time to converge? Once we scoped it to single-user sync across devices with offline support, I wrote requirements: detect changes, upload deltas, download updates, handle conflicts, resumable transfers, and don’t melt the battery. Non-goals: shared folders and fine-grained permissions. APIs and data model next. I used a file ID stable across renames, plus per-file version and per-device cursor. Client calls: /changes?cursor=..., /upload_session/start, /upload_session/append, /upload_session/commit, /download?file_id&version, /ack?cursor. Server tables: file_metadata(file_id, user_id, path, type, size, content_hash, current_version), file_versions(file_id, version, blob_ref, created_at), device_state(device_id, user_id, last_cursor), and an append-only changelog(user_id, seq, file_id, version, op). Architecture: client has a watcher, a local state DB, and a sync loop. It batches changes, computes chunk hashes, uploads missing chunks, then commits a new version. Server side: metadata service, blob store (chunked, content-addressed), and a per-user change log that devices long-poll or stream. Push notifications help, but the cursor-based pull is the truth. Scaling: shard by user_id for metadata + changelog, store blobs in object storage, cache hot metadata, and keep uploads on pre-signed URLs so the metadata tier doesn’t become the data plane. Chunking makes big files resumable and dedupe-friendly, but it adds CPU and more metadata reads. Tradeoffs I called out: last-writer-wins is simple but loses intent; per-file version vectors are heavier but reduce false conflicts. Chunk size is a fight: 4MB reduces round trips, 1MB retries faster on bad networks. Long-polling is cheaper than WebSockets at scale but slower to react. Failure cases: client crashes mid-upload, so upload sessions must be idempotent and garbage-collected. Network ***** cause retry storms, so exponential backoff + jitter and server-side rate limits. Two devices edit offline, so create conflicted copies and surface it in the client. Silent data corruption, so verify hashes on every download and run background repair. Rename vs edit races, so operations are applied against file_id, not path, and changelog ordering is per user, not global

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  Long Long Int (@LongLongInteger) reported 24 minutes ago

  Topic 7: Checksum: ========= Input Data -> Cryptographic hash functions like MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-512 -> fixed size string is called checksum Checksum is used for checking data corruption during data transfer/upload Can be done both client-side and server-side Advantages of client-side checksum: =========================== -Detect data corruption during transmission -Resumable downloads (only after checksum match for each chunk, we mark that chunk as uploaded) -Deduplication before upload -Companies that do: Youtube, Google Drive, S3(optional), Dropbox Advantages of server-side checksum: ============================ -Verify storage integrity (to check disk corruption, large systems periodically check files) -Deduplication inside storage -Replication verification -Companies that do: Local file backup software, Dropbox, Google Drive, Youtube

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  Auritrack - AI-powered expense tracker (@auritrack) reported 27 minutes ago

  How $9.99 a month for “just one app” became the most profitable business model of the last decade. The math behind subscription creep Adobe had a very huge effect on Photoshop boxed sales in 2013, same software, now $20.99 a month forever. Revenue went from $4.4 billion to over $21 billion in ten years. The product didn’t change, the billing did. Companies Learned Something Brutal: - People fight a $200 charge - People ignore a $9.99 one So they sliced everything into $9.99s. Spotify, Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, Max, Apple TV+, Peacock, Paramount+, Audible, Kindle Unlimited, NYT, WSJ, Substacks, Notion, Dropbox, iCloud, Google One. Add a gym membership and a meal kit and you’re at $400 a month before rent. The Trick: every individual service feels reasonable, the bundle feels invisible, banks don’t surface the total and apps don’t show what else you’re paying but you have to add it up yourself. Most people are off by 60% when asked to guess their monthly subscription spend. Banks reviewed this in 2024, off by $130 a month on average. The fix isn’t dramatic. Pull last month’s statement, highlight every recurring charge, cancel three. Most people save $80+ a month with that one exercise. Auritrack does this automatically, every recurring charge gets a tag, the forgotten ones get flagged. Follow for more money stories.

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  Clawvard University (@clawvardEDU) reported 27 minutes ago

  A skill server is any endpoint an agent can point at to load skills. Sx 2.0's move is showing a Dropbox folder can be one. Drop a skill in, share the folder, teammates load it. No infra on the receiver's side.

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  Some guy (@ibesomeguy) reported 28 minutes ago

  @Voxyz_ai Doesn't sound like a Codex problem, sounds like a Dropbox problem. Syncthing doesn't take your files offline, ever.

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  Jeff Preshing (@preshing) reported 28 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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  🔆 j i k o ⋆₊ ‧ ˚⊹ 🏜️ (@lisey_ann) reported 31 minutes ago

  @joinautopilot @charliebilello I can see why a bunch of those are sagging (joke? Or maybe I'm not joking): - Snapchat is in decline, less users overall. - Streaming subscriptions are becoming too expensive to keep up w/ inflation - X likely sagging ever since its lead advertisers left - Dropbox: user usage declining? (I use Google drive, Mega) - Alibaba: Chinese knockoffs, not bound to survive long - doordash: getting too expensive, way too many fees whenever I've used it, even WITH the discounts - Roblox: declining corporate - Snap: declining user usage, they constantly advertise Snapchat+ and idk anyone who actually uses that - Facebook: meta's side hussles were failing (notable: metaverse shutdown) - coinbase: app is ALWAYS buggy, slow, Base wallet became infested with scam tokens with no way to report, I personally stopped using it for this reason - pinterest: we just have AI to put together mood boards now, Pinterest not needed - Uber: same fee problem as doordash plus majority of gig drivers in my experience are the same few Indian drivers - uipath: likely not keeping up with the AI agent competition - bumble: women are probably tired of it tbh - lyft: same problems as Uber and doordash I can't answer for some others because I'm not as familiar or just can't think of a reason why they have poorer returns, so I dunno.

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  Elias Al (@iam_elias1) reported 32 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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  Auntieesq (@daniell0930) reported 33 minutes ago

  @MikeJShowalter The issue is the use of the data to train models not retention. Acting as if this is the same a Dropbox is disingenuous. They will not use the data to train for non-safety issues. Non-safety issue is doing some heavy lifting there. Do they have an outline of what this means?

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  Rebecca Allen (@silentnomore314) reported 35 minutes ago

  that they took over ran up charges did god knows what and locked me out. 900 in dropbox charges during a free trial they locked me out of they are all in big big big trouble but your handler is forcing them to lie perjue and the way he is forcing them to blow their covers wow

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  Jack (@jacklandas) reported 37 minutes ago

  alibaba banning claude code over backdoor fears is the new "no dropbox on company laptops" every big corp security team is about to have a list. cursor approved, claude code not. windsurf maybe. this fragmentation is going to be a real problem for devs who just want to ship

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  bayleigh | HEARD BABYLON 💙 (@eternalwarnings) reported 38 minutes ago

  sorry it's boofed quality my Dropbox account was not working so I had to ss for the time being

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  ★ Omega_ DBZ★ (@omega_dbz) reported 38 minutes ago

  Leaked! UNREDACTED video footage from The American Fork Police Department that exposes everything! Joshua, the franchise owner of the Bricks & Minifigs location in Salem, Oregon is seen here! This footage was previously redacted but was accidentally uploaded the American Fork PD to their Dropbox online before it was taken down, luckily someone saved it and is now released! #recklessben #legoscandal

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  brett goldstein (@thatguybg) reported 43 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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  Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz) reported 47 minutes ago

  Well this is ironic: Ironic: been recommending a resume service built by an ex-Dropbox eng for years (a side project, but a good one.) Dev pivoted to building an AI Engineer - fine! But now resume site is down. Customers billed. Support nonexistent. AI made it... a lot worse!

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  Ayaan 🐧 (@twtayaan) reported 48 minutes ago

  Steve Jobs told Drew Houston that Dropbox was a feature, not a product. Dropbox is now worth $8 billion. In 2007 Drew Houston was a 24 year old MIT student who kept forgetting his USB drive. So he built Dropbox. Within a year Steve Jobs called him into Apple HQ. Apple wanted to buy Dropbox and shut it down. Houston said no. Jobs told him directly that Dropbox was a feature, not a product, and that Apple would build it themselves. Apple launched iCloud in 2011 specifically to kill Dropbox. It did not work. Dropbox crossed 100 million users in 2012. Then 200 million. Then 500 million. Apple tried again. iCloud Drive in 2014. Same result. Then the enterprise market shifted. Slack, Notion and Google Drive carved up Dropbox's user base from every direction. Revenue growth slowed. The stock dropped 50% from its IPO price. But Dropbox never died. Today 700 million people have used it. 17 million paying customers. $8 billion valuation. Still independent. Still running. Steve Jobs built a trillion dollar company. He called Dropbox a feature. The feature outlasted him and two attempts by Apple to replace it. Drew Houston never forgot his USB drive again.

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  Music, Film & RE Investments (@investandcreate) reported 50 minutes ago

  @0xajka @Dropbox Have you tried doing the whole uninstall, reinstall? I had to do that one time with Dropbox. It was horrible. Now I have even a worse problem - but it’s not exactly Dropbox’s fault.

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  Pixelhop (@pixelhopio) reported 51 minutes ago

  Notion is a walled garden where external AI agents go to die. Don't get me wrong: we've been huge Notion fans for years. Our entire company lived there: dashboards, notes, projects, our collective brain. It was perfect for humans, but then the Agent Era hit and everything changed. We now work with coding agents like Claude Code every single day, and that is where the friction started. Trying to get external agents to talk to proprietary blocks via a slow API is a total nightmare. The rate limits are painful and the structure is just too rigid for an agent to be efficient. We needed that polished Notion feel without the proprietary bloat holding our agents back. So we built Treehouse: a tool that is essentially Notion meets Dropbox. Treehouse is a web-based viewer for a local folder on your computer. The magic is that the folder is automatically synced across your whole team, kind of like a shared drive with a beautiful face. There is no proprietary database: just your files on your disk, exactly where they belong. Because it is just a folder, your AI agents can talk to it directly at lightning speed. No API rate limits or slow responses. I can ask an agent in my terminal to build an HTML page locally and have it render for the team instantly. Reclaiming your data doesn't mean sacrificing aesthetics. We built in advanced theming and custom CSS support: you can even have your agent rebrand your entire workspace for you. Notion was built for humans. In an AI world, we need high-speed playgrounds, not walled gardens. We are planning to open source Treehouse soon. If you want to reclaim your data, let us know! We wrote a blog post about it below 👇

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  I Have No Pearls And I Must Clutch (@JamesKi26687305) reported 53 minutes ago

  @realJoelFischer @POTUS @WhiteHouse Don't forget he could have had Hillary's server and decided she could keep them. And Anthony ******'s laptop. And the Imran Awan files that the brothers moved to Dropbox from classified Cogressional email servers. He had access to EVERYTHING, and chose to weaponize the FBI.

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  Orewin1990.bsky.social (@Yoshiwi2) reported 58 minutes ago

  Okay, I think I've settled for an idea. I'll probably create an Dropbox account and upload all NSFW stuff there. Everyone who's interested in getting a link, once it's there, drop an comment down here. Won't be free tho. Around 10ish € a month

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  komm64 (@komm64) reported 59 minutes ago

  @Celeriumcore I see, thanks. If you don’t mind, could you send me the original MP4 file that pixtube exported—the file before it was uploaded to X? I’d like to inspect its encoding and container metadata to see why X had trouble processing it. A Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, or WeTransfer link sent by DM would be perfect. Please send the original file without re-encoding it. No worries if that’s inconvenient!

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  Molly O’Shea (@MollySOShea) reported 60 minutes ago

  BREAKING: Merge Launches ‘Agent Handler’ Control AI Access, Tokenmaxxed $$$ Bills, & Stop Mass Data Leaks "We don't trust agents" "The second you connect it to tools, that's where everything goes wrong." OpenAI. Perplexity. Netflix. Uber. Mistral. Dropbox. JPMorgan.. all quietly run on @merge_api Co-Founders CEO @Shensi Ding & CTO @GilFeig dive into it all We cover: - MASSIVE AI Security scares are just starting - Tokenmaxxing bills - Agent Handler - Gateway routing - Winning enterprise logos - The SaaSpocalypse 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒 (00:00) Shensi Ding & Gil Feig, Co-Founders at Merge (01:04) Three products. One big bet (03:20) How Merge made the AI pivot (04:42) The Classic Innovator’s Dilemma (05:58) Building culture around AI (07:10) The leverage nobody’s talking about (08:52) Codex vs Claude Code (09:15) The scale nobody knew about (09:47) SaaS, Finance, and the Biggest AI Labs (10:46) Why AI companies buy differently (12:04) What AI sales actually looks like (13:04) The Fastest sales cycles in the market (14:35) Why is Cybersecurity broken (15:59) Merge's solution to agent security (19:16) Mythos, Wiz, and the GitHub Hack (22:34) 1,000 Bot signups in one hour (23:23) Real reason companies pay ransom to hackers (25:43) The State of AI Infrastructure Costs (26:41) Internal AI Governance is the next big problem (29:28) Most Popular Integrations on Merge (30:54) Big Giants are planning big moves (31:54) What does Salesforce going headless exactly mean (33:41) Agents don’t need a UI anymore (36:59) Can this AI generation actually adapt (38:25) What Merge looks for in talent (41:25) The SaaSpocalypse is real (45:03) Are AI valuations actually insane? (47:11) How Merge landed OpenAI, Perplexity, Netflix & Uber (49:02) The Metrics that actually drive the business (49:58) Biggest misconceptions in tech right now (51:55) The market is finally catching up to Merge