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 (38%)
• Website Down (13%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Bournemouth	Sign in	5 days ago
Paramaribo	Errors	1 month ago
Bogotá	Website Down	1 month ago
Auxerre	Errors	1 month ago
Salt Lake City	Sign in	1 month ago
Madrid	Errors	2 months ago

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Dropbox Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Detroit Media Magazine (@detroitmediamag) reported 7 seconds ago

  @DropboxSupport I don't know who's running this page but you need to fix the glitch that is going on with your latest update. My Dropbox app worked just fine up until your latest update which was about three or four days ago. Maybe even two days ago. I heavily rely on your services and I need access to my account ASAP. There is nothing but a black screen when I open up my Dropbox app hopefully somebody can get back to me with this problem and hopefully one of your technicians gets to work on your end.

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  Rebecca Allen (@silentnomore314) reported 1 minute 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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  J. (@munchivelo) reported 1 minute ago

  track back to just over a year to now. i'd built an automated ecommerce flow that took a whole store end to end. seo would research trends, products, and map those into .js scripts which would launch prompts that read those research files. that would feed an image gen prompt which created designs, set to specific standard. i'd generate them, and then ANOTHER prompt, would check the images, score them with a criteria, and either move them to an accepted folder, or move them to an archive folder. the accepted folders, would automatically fire a script which would open photoshop, map the image to smart layers, in a 'product shot' template i'd made, and then export all of the final product shots to another folder, and then exported the flat designs which would be used for the products. another script took the product images, did visual lookups, generated all product descriptions, renamed the images and generated the seo text. it ran optimizations locally via a jpegoptim and oxipng script. it then uploaded them to dropbox, and via API, would generate a dropbox link map. i had one barebones csv template, which i'd run a ps1 script through to map json files into the csv rows, and insert the dropbox link map. all my images, links, followed the exact same slugs, so it turned 2 hours of manual work into a 5 second bulk rename and insert. it then converted that csv into json, which then itself converted that json into ld-json for product rich listings. ai would write the product description based on a dataseo keywords, and googletrends json file that would run on every product type. collecting keywords for that specific product. it also formed it around brand profiles, copy guides and other things. this was sonnet 3 days, GPT 4.0 days, and it STILL wrote great copy when it had the right guidance. in the .js file, i'd replace all em dashes with a hyphen if they ever appeared. i built a custom product uploader, built my own php plugin which synced to local .js files and connected via rest. it was (and still is) one of the best wc product uploaders that exist, as it completely resets filterlookups only for that product, and is lightning fast because i upload it directly into woocommerce rows from json. no importers, no wordpress malarkey, or WC rest needed. it was 50x faster than wc's own CSV import. the images would be uploaded via ftp, and then on detection, would sync those to the media library, and i'd upload the image meta from the seo run, so they all had captions/alt text etc. it took what would be 3-5 hours of manual work per product, and congested it into a 2 minute image to fully live product system. after that, i'd export sales data, the ai was constantly learning, sales data feeding back to files, which would then teach the ai what products work, what doesn't. what copy worked, what copy didn't. that would then flow back into the original source files which told the ai what images to gen and what products to launch. all of it was local on my pc. i wasn't selling an saas. it was just something that worked for my very particular setup. the thing about it is; i built that mostly with GPT 4.0 and a little bit of 3.5! mostly copy and pasting code manually from the chats in chatGPT. all the plugins, the php, everything. then some of it got improved inside vscode back on the old original copilot plans, when $10 used to last you an entire month of none stop coding. this was before n8n, before agents were even a thing. all of that I built very specifically for myself, local, syncing folder to folder, json file to json file. python scripts watching files, and .ps1 files that would follow up with other .ps1 files, which launched .js files which contained prompts for AI, and hitting the openAI API's whenever I needed the AI layer. eventually i built a terminal tool, which would allow me to run the scripts from the terminal, and i'd manually type in the slugs for which products i wanted processed. all files would sit in specific folders, and scripts would do the rest. i was so excited about that, giving my terminal app a shortcut icon and putting it onto my taskbar. that was a year ago. fast forward to now. the game has changed so much. ANYTHING and i mean anything is possible now. people 'new' to codex, and CC etc don't know how good they have it. my advantage is that i have a year of scripts, a year of tools. i've laid the SYSTEMS in place, to fully map out entire features, precisely, and organized, and build out projects, in one hour, and have it implemented within the next. entire saas features - mousework. but i've had this ******* idea for so long, to build a fully automated, self learning ecom business, that launches products end to end based on it's own research, writing, and growth, but the complexity of it previously , and being busy with life, it never got finalized. the secret is i sync it via etsy too, but they're API keys take FOREVER to aquire, but built my own etsy system, product uploader, which runs across 7 different stores. however, now, i've finally been building the replacement for it. i'll be able to run that exact same system, except this time through a full app, with a canvas, and agent systems instead of .ps1 scripts. not to say i won't run scripts; they're an integral part of any automated workflow, but now it has superpowers, and it can do so so so much more. all the ideas I wanted to do, automated, fully, end to end. not only that, but i moved away from woocommerce entirely. instead i just built my own website builder, which is also fully automated end to end. my brand profiles, my artwork system? i'm still using those, just for more things. now i can launch 50 brands just like it, running the same system, all in about 5 minutes. whether it's saas, local service, or online ecom. i also built an ai automated ad builder. it takes my brands images, or generates images. i've got background removers, and full skills and agents which fully generate the ads for me. it mixes all that into seedance videos, and posts in logos etc. now i take those image/videos, and build instagram, tiktok, facebook vids, generate descriptions, and upload them automatically. it has an every growing library to source from, templates to use, and the system derives right with the websites, so all themes/styles match precisely to the brand. this is why it's so great building for yourself. the amount of reusability you get with it, the fact it's free forever, can never be beaten. none of these saas companies get it. and they're heading in the wrong direction. we could already DO half of what these companies are doing. my own personal SEO system, which i built for my automated web builder, is already 10x better than any yoast, rankmath etc. i skip expensive ahrefs, semrush, and just rebuild their services myself, using API, which is 100x cheaper. except this time it FEEDS my system, and i don't need to lay a finger on it. nobody cares about these little one off apps that won't exist in a year. they're either failing to see the future, or they're hoping for an early exit before they know the dominos start falling. and they don't get it. their 'app' is just a little tiny module in something that thinks bigger. people will want PRIVATE systems. all speaking to each other. not 1200 integrations and 1200 invoices to send to, that don't even have a ******* brain. i'm not selling anything yet. but if you're interested in seeing how i think about automation, then stay a while and listen. the tool i'm building will absolutely help you too. but i'll be honest. i'm actually quite scared to release it, solely down to how powerful it is. not many people do it like i do, and i'm finally on here to tell the world. the only winners will be the ones prepared for cannabilism. ready for war. they call it war rooms, yet they sit around eating donuts provided by their VC's. real builders sit in the dark, in empty rooms, grinding. if you're a cannabilistic, sick sadistic, son of *****, 666, with an idea. then drop a you know what.

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  Music, Film & RE Investments (@investandcreate) reported 2 minutes ago

  @0xajka @Dropbox What’s your problem? @dropbox support is horrendous.

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  2Do (@2DoApp) reported 4 minutes ago

  @PhilipLeworthy The Android app is going to unfortunately remain on CalDAV + Dropbox sync for now. I'll be updating it to fix a few issues as well as Tablet related compatibility issues but not major features planned. It remains functional the way it is albeit with a few limitations.

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  obtuse goose (@abelianraisin) reported 6 minutes ago

  @suchenzang Entire value prop is doing a lot of heavy lifting here everything gcp/aws/azure does can effectively be done in a budget manner by its customers. Dropbox storage similarly (granted it's market cap is way down but still it is a viable business) I have no dog in this fight fwiw

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  TechSnif (@techsnif) reported 11 minutes ago

  Dropbox founder Drew Houston steps down as CEO after 19 years, replaced by SVP Ashraf Alkarmi

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  YC Insights. (@Aiagent_s) reported 12 minutes ago

  March 23, 2018. Dropbox IPOs on NASDAQ. Surges 40%+ day one. Market cap: $12B First YC company ever to go public. Drew still owned 30%. The real lesson: both rejections were right. Both made the company better. Treat each rejection as a specific diagnosis. Then fix that specific thing.

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  Windows Latest (@WindowsLatest) reported 15 minutes ago

  Windows 11 June 2026 update, which was supposed to make PCs faster, is crashing some PCs with BSODs, breaking OneDrive integration in File Explorer and custom folder icons, and causing other problems. We're seeing reports that Windows 11 KB5094126 is causing boot failures on some PCs, mostly HP enterprise hardware. The worst reports involve BitLocker recovery loops, Black Screen of Death/BSOD failures, Secure Boot signature errors, and error 0xc0430001. Affected models appear to include HP EliteBook 840 G10, HP ProBook 460 G11, HP Engage One Pro G2 AiO POS, HP ZBook, and some Dell Precision systems. The likely trigger is Secure Boot certificate handling + EFI partition space. On older images with a 100MB EFI partition, Windows may fail to update Boot Manager because there isn’t enough space, especially on HP systems where firmware recovery files can bloat EFI. There are also File Explorer cloud integration issues. OneDrive, and in some cases Dropbox or iCloud Drive, may stop opening from the sidebar/tray shortcut after KB5094126. Microsoft also confirms desktop.ini hardening can break custom folder icons or localized folder names from untrusted sources. KB5094126 is important, as it fixes 200+ security bugs, but be careful, as it could cause havoc on some PCs.

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  Evan Otero (@EvanOtero) reported 15 minutes ago

  A decade-old Quora post on Dropbox that is a better product masterclass than any book: Q: Dropbox: Why is Dropbox more popular than other programs with similar functionality? A: Well, let's take a step back and think about the sync problem and what the ideal solution for it would do: - There would be a folder. - You'd put your stuff in it. - It would sync. 
They built that. Why didn't anyone else build that? I have no idea. "But," you may ask, "so much more you could do! What about task management, calendaring, customized dashboards, virtual white boarding. More than just folders and files!" No, shut up. People don't use that crap. They just want a folder. A folder that syncs… That is what it does.

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  ScarcityMan (@ScarcityMan) reported 16 minutes ago

  @balkanhodl @hodlonaut Even worse than that. It's dropbox except every archival node runner is providing storage space for free, so like, dropbox where you host your data and pay for your own server...

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  Long Long Int (@LongLongInteger) reported 17 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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  Lazaro M. (@Lzmrtn66) reported 21 minutes ago

  @Dropbox I'm having trouble regaining access to my Dropbox account. I have access to the registered email. I request a password change, you send the password, I log in with the password, then you say you'll send an SMS to my cell phone, but that SMS never arrives.

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  tara_ (@TechByTaraa) reported 24 minutes ago

  Instagram uses Python.
Spotify uses Python.
Dropbox uses Python.
Reddit uses Python.
Netflix uses Python.
Pinterest uses Python.
Quora uses Python.
OpenAI uses Python. productivity never went out of fashion. still think Python is too slow? 👀

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  Elias Al (@iam_elias1) reported 27 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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  BadUncle (@BadUncleX) reported 30 minutes ago

  @mitsuhiko Similarly, I still use the old version before 7. They try to force you to bind to their server-dependent version. I prefer to use dropbox to synchronize.

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  Lagoon Labs (@LagoonLabsMv) reported 31 minutes ago

  Dropbox founder Drew Houston is stepping down as CEO, moving to executive chairman. Stock dropped 2.3% on the news. His next move? He's eyeing the AI space - 'credit card alerts for my Cursor token spend.'

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  AJ (@ce_aj100) reported 33 minutes ago

  @SsharmaKirti Maybe isse ek project bnalo... redundant file storage ( across various apps like dropbox, gdrive and local server ). And add video streaming capabilities based on the fastest avalable ( calculated dynamically ) service. I made this couple of years ago, but for different tasks

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  How To AI (@HowToAI_) reported 34 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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  Elias Al (@iam_elias1) reported 34 minutes ago

  Then the conversation took a turn. The technician pulled up Activity Monitor and showed him something: 23 apps were running in the background that the customer didn't have open. Adobe Creative Cloud. Spotify. Slack. Microsoft AutoUpdate. Dropbox. Google Drive sync. Three different "helper" apps installed during printer setup years ago. Each one was consuming small amounts of CPU, RAM, and battery cycles 24/7. The technician's words: "Your MacBook isn't slow because it's old. It's slow because it's running 23 jobs nobody hired it to do." System Settings → General → Login Items → look at the lists under both tabs → remove anything that doesn't need to launch automatically. The customer removed 18 of them on the spot.

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  Gavin (Owner 67 Designs) (@67Designs) reported 35 minutes ago

  @DumbMoneyCapitl That could be argued, sure. But it misses the bigger picture. The real issue isn’t whether Jim and SCS have a working Dropbox—they clearly do. The problem is that VC funds are desperately hunting for places to deploy all their capital, and businesses like this simply can’t deliver the returns those funds require because of their heavy capex profile. It’s a classic square peg in a round hole from a funding and returns standpoint.

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  Logan Radcliff (@GTDCANI) reported 37 minutes ago

  Omg OneDrive is terrible! Do better @Microsoft ! Trying to download a folder with 1000 files. OD zips, downloads, says complete. I end up with 5% of my files. Never this issue with Google Drive or DropBox.

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  fercaton (@fercaton) reported 40 minutes ago

  Writing things down isn't weak—it's like training wheels for your ideas. Your brain's not built to be an infinite Dropbox; it's for connecting dots, not hoarding them.

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  zerohedge (@zerohedge) reported 41 minutes ago

  *DROPBOX CEO DREW HOUSTON TO STEP DOWN: CNBC

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  Ashley Mathieu (@ashmath34) reported 42 minutes ago

  @DropboxSupport @Kuramichan7 having the same issue — can't create new folders, can't delete folders, can't rename folders, can't upload. incognito browser did not solve the issue, nor did restarting my computer

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  Colin Turner (@ColinTurnerTN66) reported 42 minutes ago

  @pinutos @AZAGMayes The Recorder can do that. Security is far too lax on the dropbox/early voting system and the board has shown no initiative to fix the problem. Looking forward to the suit.

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  ★ Omega_ DBZ★ (@omega_dbz) reported 43 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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  Boris Gostroverhov (@gostroverhov) reported 50 minutes ago

  Let me add my own perspective: this reminds me of the Dropbox story. Before Dropbox, there were already dozens of similar solutions, but they didn’t solve the users’ problem completely or in the way users actually wanted.

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  Siddiqui Qamar ֎ (@siddqamar_ai) reported 54 minutes ago

  "it's just a wrapper" 😑 might be one of the laziest criticism in tech! users don't care whether you built the infrastructure. they care whether the product solves their problem. dropbox didn't invent storage. it made storage effortless. turns out making existing technology usable is a lot more valuable than many founders want to admit.

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  QuixoticMoose (@QuixoticMoose) reported 58 minutes ago

  Bricks & Minifigs LEGO Drama: Unredacted Police Footage Raises Serious Questions About Cop-Business Ties Hey everyone, it's been a wild ride since my last piece on the Bricks and Minifigs mess. What started as a story about a family trying to sell their massive Star Wars LEGO collection has turned into something much uglier. With the unredacted bodycam and dashcam footage from American Fork Police now out there, we are seeing a side of this that looks a lot like police getting way too cozy with the business they were supposed to investigate fairly. The Footage Drop That Blew It Open Just recently, someone got hold of a big batch of unredacted videos from the American Fork PD. It was apparently an accidental public Dropbox link, but once it was out, it spread fast. These are the full versions of the interactions that were shown in heavily edited form before. And man, they paint a pretty concerning picture. In the clips, you see Bricks and Minifigs people like store owner Joshua Johnson and CEO Ammon McNeff talking to officers. They throw out some heavy claims against Reckless Ben. Things like extortion, death threats, collusion with the Mansells, and even making up documents. The police seem to eat it up without much pushback right there on camera. It feels like they are taking the company's word as solid fact. Signs of Too Close for Comfort One part that stands out is when an officer mentions personal connections. He talks about being friends with the Airbnb host where Reckless Ben and his crew were staying before that swatting mess. The officer even sounds like he is bragging about it on bodycam. That kind of casual chat makes you wonder if private relationships played into how aggressively they went after Ben. There is also talk between American Fork officers and other departments, including LAPD. It looks like McNeff and his team were pushing multiple police forces to go after Reckless Ben. The footage shows officers coordinating in ways that feel more like helping a business protect itself than handling a neutral investigation. The arrest of Reckless Ben gets shown in more detail too. What some saw as a traffic stop turns into a long vehicle search over supposed drugs that never seemed to pan out. Critics are calling the whole thing disproportionate, like the police were there to send a message rather than enforce clear laws. The earlier redacted videos hid a lot of this flow, but now we can see it all. The Community Reaction and the Mormon Angle LEGO fans and true crime watchers online have been tearing this apart. Threads on Reddit and YouTube breakdowns are full of people saying it looks like the department acted as private security for Bricks and Minifigs. Some point to the shared LDS Church ties between officers, Johnson, McNeff, and others as a possible reason for the protective vibe. I am not saying it is a full conspiracy, but the optics are not great in a tight knit place like American Fork. Public trust in the police handling here has taken a real hit. The department put out statements defending their actions as responses to stalking complaints at Johnson's home. They say redactions were about protecting victims. But the full unredacted stuff has many questioning if that was the whole truth. Where Does This Leave the Mansells? Remember, at the heart of it all is still that elderly collector and his son who lost track of most of their $200,000 collection during the franchise handover. Bricks and Minifigs maintains they only inherited a tiny bit of inventory and that the original deal was not properly done. Lawsuits are moving forward, but the missing sets and money have not been explained to the Mansells' satisfaction. Reckless Ben's videos brought massive attention to their situation, including a GoFundMe that has helped with legal costs. His style is aggressive, sure, but the new footage makes it look like the pushback from the other side involved more than just legal channels. This scandal shows how fast a hobby dispute can drag in law enforcement and how important real transparency is. If police really did favor one business over a fair process, that is a big problem no matter what side you are on. The LEGO community thrives on trust and good deals. Right now, a lot of us are watching closely to see if the courts sort out the missing bricks and whether anyone holds the police accountable for how they handled this. It is not over yet, but these videos have definitely shifted the conversation. What do you think? Drop your takes below.