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%)
• Website Down (30%)
• Sign in (20%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
City of London	Errors	6 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
Alcobendas	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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  DrKnowItAll (@DrKnowItAll16) reported 3 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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  Middle East Observer (@ME_Observer_) reported 4 minutes ago

  @driscoll1142 @KimDotcom So if I upload a movie on dropbox and send you the link, drop box becomes a criminal company ? We can shut down any company this way

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  0xJansss (@jannnsssssss) reported 7 minutes ago

  @SuiNetwork @thewalrus @WalrusProtocol Every file you store on Google Drive, Dropbox, or iCloud — Google owns the server. Google can delete it. Google can go down. Walrus changes that. It's a decentralized storage protocol built by Mysten Labs, where your data lives across hundreds of independent nodes worldwide.

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  Kennedy Gitahi | PHP & WordPress Specialist (@ken_gitahi) reported 8 minutes ago

  The "Host Backups" Trap. "My host does backups." Great. What happens if your host account is hacked or their server fails? If you don't have an off-site, redundant backup (AWS/Dropbox/Google Drive/Other), you don't have a backup.

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  Chad Bockius (@bockius) reported 8 minutes ago

  The bottleneck was never code. It was understanding. Airbnb didn't win because they built faster. Slack didn't dominate because they shipped more features. Dropbox didn't succeed because they had cleaner code. They understood their users' problems deeply. Built precisely what was needed. Nothing more.

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  Luna (@_LunarLunaa) reported 12 minutes ago

  @ilovetmrmygffr did the dropbox link work? got taken down a bit ago

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  BoB (@BoB16278479) reported 14 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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  njm ⚡️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿⚡️ (@nathan_j_morton) reported 16 minutes ago

  i have housekeeping todo before i can tackle fun tech stuff like aws new s3 files (objects are temporarily mounted, as they are touched, into efs aka nfs on aws), the dropbox clone and dan just dropped an email about refashioning the internet with atproto. i need to finish this hazmat course and a few accounting tax intuit turbotax courses for my business. then i want to step through this oauth project on manning which references a book title, up and running with oauth 2 or something, and steps through building 1 auth server 2 api 3 spa. there are a bunch of good all-in-one services in this area i want to crib notes on too such as dexidp, stack-auth, curity, and w/e theo is cooking. he likes better-auth iirc.

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  E.Matsumoto🔥🔥🔥 (@hotcoffee_cake) reported 18 minutes ago

  In Japanese file names, the brackets "【 】" (sumitsuki-kakko) are automatically converted to underscores after signing. These characters are essential for organizing files in 🇯🇵. Please fix this! @DropboxSign @DropboxSupport @Dropbox

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  0xNinjachiip (@ninjachiip) reported 20 minutes ago

  2) 🟡 DePIN --- Decentralized Storage → Covered this before but kinda forgot. So wanted to revise it again. ---------------------- The problem with traditional cloud storage (AWS, Dropbox, etc) is that: → is centralized and has a single point of failure → is prone to censorship resistance Decentralized storage tries to solve that the help of blockchain. ---------------------- → How it works: Instead of storing it on servers, data gets stored on individual nodes. Nodes are storage solutions that individuals contribute. So in other words, it gets people to contribute their storage, and stores them on such devices. A common misconception is that the blockchain is used for data storage. • That isn’t the case. Its just used to keep track of whats being stored. ---------------------- → An analogy: blockchain = receipt system, where the auditor checks Node network = the actual warehouse where your stuff sits Because nodes get paid to store data, its important to verify they actually are storing it. And not taking the money while storing nothing. To verify if the files are still there, the network challenges these nodes to solve cryptographic proofs. It actively challenges these nodes randomly, so that they will be incentivized to keep the storage up and running. ---------------------- → Little more in-depth: Another key part of decentralized storage is the use of IPFS. Instead of the traditional data storage HTTP, IPFS locates content based off its unique content fingerprint. When combined with the blockchain, this allows for the protocol to retrieve the data users stored on it.

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  CryptoTruth (@cryptotruth) reported 21 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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  The Gold Standard (@goldstandard555) reported 22 minutes ago

  @yeah_i_saidthat @SCOburg616 @mattvanswol I just want to return to how we used to vote. Overseas residents and military can still vote by mail. So can elderly and disabled. I have no issues with that. But everyone else should vote on election day, early in person or some other secure method (dropbox with ID).

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  Gabriel Amzallag (@gabrielamzallag) reported 22 minutes ago

  Notion’s homepage doesn’t start with features. It starts with chaos. A cartoon of people drowning in tools. Google Docs. Quip. Jira. Evernote. Trello. Confluence. Dropbox Paper. Eight logos piled on top of each other like a mess on your desk. Then one calm line: “With Notion, all your work is in one place.” No feature grid. No “powered by AI.” No “trusted by 10,000 teams.” Just: here’s your mess. We clean it up. They didn’t trash competitors. They named them. The pile IS the argument. Drift did this too. Called out forms as the “old way” right on their homepage. Basecamp painted projects spiraling into chaos. Churnbuster showed you every failed fix you already tried. Same playbook: diagnose before you prescribe. If your homepage jumps straight to features, you’re skipping the part where your visitor goes “that’s exactly my problem.” Most founders sell the destination. The best ones describe the traffic jam you’re stuck in right now. Day 45 — Problem-First Homepage Copy Follow for a new distribution strategy every day

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  Dan Shipper 📧 (@danshipper) reported 23 minutes ago

  @drummatick dropbox is just an FTP server!

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  Google Juice (@Themariocrafter) reported 26 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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  Arthur "Filterboy" van Pelt 🔥 ∞/21M ⚡ (@Arthur_van_Pelt) reported 28 minutes ago

  @ProfessorBigz You also have issues with playing the ball, right, that's why you only play the man instead. Sad. And not only that, you're also completely wrong. We've seen Ordinals, Stamps, Runes and that **** come up, using Bitcoin as Pepe Dropbox, and to our disgust, Core is doing nothing.

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  Datos Drive (@DatosDrive) reported 29 minutes ago

  🔗 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.

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  Kennedy Gitahi | PHP & WordPress Specialist (@ken_gitahi) reported 30 minutes ago

  The "Host Backups" Trap. "My host does backups." Great. What happens if your host account is hacked, their server fails, or a backup doesn't complete? If you don't have an off-site, redundant backup option(AWS/Dropbox/Google Drive/Other), you don't have a backup solution.

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  Alex ✨🇲🇽 (@LECLRCLFTV) reported 31 minutes ago

  dealing with some issues with ko-fi on my end, so i'll upload all journals to dropbox while i get this fixed 👀

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  Nav Toor (@heynavtoor) reported 40 minutes ago

  1. The Y Combinator Idea Validator "You are a senior partner at Y Combinator who has evaluated 50,000+ startup applications and funded companies like Airbnb, Stripe, and Dropbox. You know within 5 minutes whether an idea has real potential or is a waste of time. I need a brutally honest validation of my business idea before I invest a single hour building it. Validate: - Problem clarity: is this solving a real painful problem or a 'nice to have' that nobody will pay for - Market size estimate: how many people have this problem and how much would they pay to solve it - Existing solutions: what are people currently using and why is my approach meaningfully better - Willingness to pay test: 5 questions I can ask real people today to confirm they'd actually buy this - Unfair advantage check: what do I personally have (skills, network, experience) that makes me the right person to build this - Business model clarity: how exactly does this make money — subscription, one-time, marketplace, or ads - First 10 customers: who specifically are my first 10 paying customers and where do I find them - MVP definition: the absolute smallest version I can build to test if people will pay - Kill criteria: what specific evidence in the next 7 days would prove this idea is dead - YC verdict: fund, pass, or pivot with the single most important reason Format as a Y Combinator-style application review with a brutally honest score out of 10 and a clear go/no-go recommendation. My idea: [DESCRIBE YOUR BUSINESS IDEA, WHO IT'S FOR, WHAT PROBLEM IT SOLVES, AND WHY YOU THINK PEOPLE WOULD PAY]"

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  Some UK Tesla Guy (@SomeUKTeslaGuy) reported 43 minutes ago

  Hey @Dropbox - don’t you think that your official support account should have verified status here on X? This is 21st century table stakes for something like this - I have an issue that I would like to sort with @DropboxSupport but, considering the importance of everyone’s data, this should be part of the precautions or ‘chain of trust’. Please get this sorted.

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  Stanley (@Golf_Stats) reported 43 minutes ago

  @LIVGolfComms Can you fix the R1 and R2 Reports for this event in Dropbox? The files have zero length.

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  AISauce (@aisauce_x) reported 46 minutes ago

  @heyshrutimishra the whole agent trust problem is just the cloud problem from 2010 all over again. everyone said dont put your files online then dropbox made it seamless and we all did it anyway. agents will win the same way. not by solving security but by making the risk feel invisible

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  Bitcoin Badger (@linux_badger) reported 50 minutes ago

  @w_s_bitcoin Bitcoin is money; it is not the next Dropbox. Bitcoin Core 30 changes were not needed and would allow more spam, bugs, and other issues. I see the reason for BIP-110: to clean up all the unnecessary changes. I would have preferred not to arrive at this point, but Core's 💩 😩

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  Ernest Pedapati, MD (@CBrainlab) reported 51 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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  denver ♱⃓ manifesting mcrmn 🗡️ (@xbulletproofing) reported 51 minutes ago

  @skeletoncrevvs i get this issue with dropbox, but u cant be claiming that ur content is EASILY accessible 4 everyone if this is the case, whether u wanted this outcome or not. its still not easily accessible. i encourage u to try to look into other options if u want it to actually be accessible

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  John Cartwright°͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌ 🐈 🐈 🐈 (@bejiitas_wrath) reported 53 minutes ago

  Windows Defender, the built-in antivirus running on every Windows machine, has a working zero-day exploit with full source code sitting on GitHub. No patch, no CVE, and confirmed working on fully updated Windows 10 and 11. A researcher who says Microsoft went back on their word just handed every attacker paying attention a privilege escalation that takes any low-privileged account straight to NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM. On Windows Server, the result is different but still serious: a standard user ends up with elevated administrator access. The vulnerability is called BlueHammer. On April 2nd, the researcher posted the public disclosure on a personal blog, and on April 3rd, the full exploit source code went live on GitHub. Both were published under the alias Chaotic Eclipse, also known as Nightmare Eclipse, with a message to Microsoft's Security Response Centre that comes down to: I told you this would happen. In late March, the same researcher opened a blog with a single post explaining that they never wanted to come back to public research. Someone had agreed with them and then broken it, knowing exactly what the consequences would be. The post says it left the researcher without a home or anything. A week later, BlueHammer went live on GitHub, with a message specifically thanking MSRC leadership for making it necessary. That is not someone annoyed with a slow review process. That is someone with nothing left to lose. BlueHammer is not a traditional bug, and it does not need shellcode, memory corruption, or a kernel exploit to work. What it does is chain five completely legitimate Windows components together in a sequence that produces something their designers never intended. Those five components are Windows Defender, Volume Shadow Copy Service, the Cloud Files API, opportunistic locks, and Defender's internal RPC interface. One practical limitation worth knowing: the exploit needs a pending Defender signature update to be available at the time of the attack. Without one in the queue, the chain does not trigger. That makes it less reliable than a push-button exploit, but it does not make it safe to ignore. When Defender runs an antivirus definition update, part of that process involves creating a temporary Volume Shadow Copy, which is the same snapshot mechanism Windows uses for backup and restore. That shadow copy contains files that are normally completely locked during regular operation, including the SAM database, which stores the password hashes for every local account on the machine. BlueHammer registers itself as a Cloud Files sync provider, the same kind of thing that OneDrive or Dropbox uses to sync files. When Defender touches a specific file inside that folder, the exploit gets a callback and immediately places an opportunistic lock on that file. Defender stalls, blocked, waiting for a response that is never coming. The shadow copy it just created is still mounted. The window is open. With Defender frozen in place, the exploit reads the SAM, SYSTEM, and SECURITY registry hives directly from the snapshot. It decrypts the stored NTLM password hashes using the boot key pulled from the SYSTEM hive, changes a local administrator account's password, logs in with that account, copies the administrator security token, pushes it to the SYSTEM level, creates a temporary Windows service, and spawns a command prompt running as NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM. Then, to cover its tracks, it puts the original password hash back. The local account password looks completely unchanged. No crash, no alert, nothing. The Cloud Files provider name hardcoded in the exploit source code reads IHATEMICROSOFT. The administrator password used during the escalation is hardcoded as $PWNed666!!!WDFAIL. These are not bugs left by accident. They are messages, written directly into the code, and there is only one intended reader.

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  David Cramer (@zeeg) reported 54 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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  Nas (@Nas_tech_AI) reported 56 minutes ago

  1. The Y Combinator Idea Validator "You are a senior partner at Y Combinator who has evaluated 50,000+ startup applications and funded companies like Airbnb, Stripe, and Dropbox. You know within 5 minutes whether an idea has real potential or is a waste of time. I need a brutally honest validation of my business idea before I invest a single hour building it. Validate: - Problem clarity: is this solving a real painful problem or a 'nice to have' that nobody will pay for - Market size estimate: how many people have this problem and how much would they pay to solve it - Existing solutions: what are people currently using and why is my approach meaningfully better - Willingness to pay test: 5 questions I can ask real people today to confirm they'd actually buy this - Unfair advantage check: what do I personally have (skills, network, experience) that makes me the right person to build this - Business model clarity: how exactly does this make money subscription, one-time, marketplace, or ads - First 10 customers: who specifically are my first 10 paying customers and where do I find them - MVP definition: the absolute smallest version I can build to test if people will pay - Kill criteria: what specific evidence in the next 7 days would prove this idea is dead - YC verdict: fund, pass, or pivot with the single most important reason Format as a Y Combinator-style application review with a brutally honest score out of 10 and a clear go/no-go recommendation. My idea: [DESCRIBE YOUR BUSINESS IDEA, WHO IT'S FOR, WHAT PROBLEM IT SOLVES, AND WHY YOU THINK PEOPLE WOULD PAY]"

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  Holly | UGC Creator | Influencer (@hqcrocker) reported 59 minutes ago

  Unpopular opinion….DropBox is sooo slow for uploads. 😳😵‍💫 #ugc