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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.
Problems in the last 24 hours
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Most Reported Problems
The following are the most recent problems reported by Dropbox users through our website.
- Sign in (44%)
- Errors (44%)
- Website Down (11%)
Live Outage Map
The most recent Dropbox outage reports came from the following cities:
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Errors | 9 days ago |
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Website Down | 9 days ago |
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Errors | 9 days ago |
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Sign in | 12 days ago |
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Errors | 27 days ago |
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Sign in | 1 month ago |
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Dropbox Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Pradeep Kumar Xplorer (@ThaiKumar) reportedSomeone is regulating my upload to Dropbox 33 mb file suddenly the network is slow
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Jody (@Jody28391214234) reported@sarahadams @BenghaziAttacks @BentonDave28405 Same with me Sarah - running into trouble trying just to get the report from DropBox. Help.
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Chris_Mellor (@Chris_Mellor) reportedAll of a sudden, when trying to upload Voice Record 7 audio recording files from my iPhone to Dropbox I now have to login to Dropbox and get an emailed verification code .... WHY??? All the convenience has gone. It's enshittification.
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daniela molloy (@diandrasdiandra) reportedcoachella 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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Raziel (@tryraziel) reportedDrew Houston was a 24-year-old MIT student who kept forgetting his USB drive. His solution? A file-syncing service called Dropbox. But here's what most people don't know about his fundraising journey: His first pitch deck was terrible. 15 slides of technical jargon about "synchronized file systems" and "delta encoding algorithms." VCs glazed over. The breakthrough came when he made a 3-minute demo video instead. No technical explanations. Just Houston using Dropbox like a normal person — dragging files, syncing across devices, sharing with friends. That video got him into Y Combinator in 2007. → Seed round: $1.2M led by Sequoia (2007) → Series A: $7.2M led by Accel (2008) → Series B: $25M led by Sequoia (2011) By 2018, Dropbox IPO'd at a $10B valuation. The lesson: Houston didn't pivot his product — he pivoted his pitch. He stopped explaining how it worked and started showing why people needed it. Sometimes the problem isn't your idea. It's how you're selling it. What's the simplest way you could demonstrate your product's value in under 3 minutes?
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Red (@rubelr44) reportedyou're paying google $10/month to sit in their server room. dropbox gets $12/month. apple gets $10. the kicker? they can all see your stuff. and when dropbox got breached in 2024? emails, passwords, and tokens were just... out there. there’s this tool called syncthing and it’s honestly kind of a cheat code. no cloud. no company servers. no middleman watching you. it just syncs your files directly between your own devices. peer-to-peer. it's got like 81k stars on github so it’s legit. here is why it wins: direct sync: files go from your phone to your pc. they never touch a 3rd party. privacy: encrypted with tls and crypto certificates. zero friction: no accounts. no sign-ups. just install it and share a device id. everywhere: works on windows, mac, linux, android... even solaris if you're into that. safety net: it has file versioning. if you accidentally delete something, you can just roll it back. the wildest part is that syncthing isn't even a company. it's a swedish non-profit. there is no "cloud" to shut down. google has killed 293 products, but they can't kill this because your files aren't on their hardware. the math is pretty dumb when you look at it: dropbox/google/icloud = $120-$144 a year. syncthing = $0. unlimited storage. unlimited devices. it's been around since 2013 and it's 100% open source. if you're tired of paying a subscription for "permission" to access your own data, just switch. your hardware. your files. forever.
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Simon Bates (@RobotDoggy69) reportedI don't know what's going on with Dropbox and my Mac at the moment, but it just won't stay running. I assume it's another apple update that's causing this headache. For two such big firms to give its clients such problems is seriously ****** up.
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Arythick-Ft$🍑💦 (@feyza_esnkya) reportedHold my head down on the **** till I can’t breathe! 😩🍆 Full video available on Dropbox 🔥👀
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Isha (@VISportsTalk) reported@DropboxSupport Still not working
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Awooingenjoyer (@AwooingEnjoyer) reportedNah, the dropbox is broken, go speak to Cathy.
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The New Release Guy (@moviesplusgames) reported@Dropbox And fix your passkey verification flow. The code you send doesn't even work no matter how many times you type it in or copy and paste it. The government needs to start telling these apps to get better. They suck like most things in this **** country, ever since Dems ****** it
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m ⋆。°✩ (@ascaIons) reportedabsolute least favourite part of term 3 at work is students appearing at the info desk all stressed bc they’ve left it till the last minute to submit their final assignment and are now having problems with dropbox and turnitin and expect me to fix it in less then 10 mins
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Jesse Meyers (@jmbase) reported@VISportsTalk @Dropbox I was able to get the web interface to load by switching to a VPN. Before that it was showing a 500 error. Desktop app on Mac is still not connecting. Dropbox status page doesn’t show any issues.
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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
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onehourman (@onehourlong) reported@w0nt_cry I agree with Slow. There’s also dropbox
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sophie's dad (@sofia_karina) reported@SharonElizaDC @FedExHelp who goes to a dropbox?? just wave down a truck ffs
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Tychique Esteve (@TychiqueY) reportedDay 4 building Verytis in public. I've been pushing hard to find first beta testers. Reddit 1,200+ views, real conversations, zero installs. X engagement, validation, zero installs. Direct DMs sent, read, zero responses. Everyone describes the problem in their own words. Nobody takes the step to test. So today I changed approach. I just submitted to Hacker News the community that broke Dropbox open in 2007. If the problem is real and the solution makes sense, this is where I'll find out. Watching the thread now.
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Stuart Pryke (@SPryke2) reported@sila_beyaz @HLearningPD There’s a Dropbox link at the back. It’ll take you to a page where you can scroll down to find the RTT book. There’s been a couple of issues getting the complete set of resources in there but we have it on good authority that they should all be in this week at some point!
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Josh Schorle (@JoshSchorle) reported@heyderekj Finally tried out Dinky. SUPER IMPRESSIVE! But having issues with original files not actually staying where they were despite the selected setting. I wanted to test photo compression on photos in my Dropbox and output to a desktop folder. Except the files move to desktop folder.
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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.
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Creative Cyborg (@creativ_cyborg) reported@thevelvetmonke @fortelabs @tloncorpbot The graph does move with the docs. The graph is the set of links embedded in the documents. I've moved my vaults around from one folder to another, from Dropbox to a regular folder to use Sync, and had no trouble with any of it. That I tell Claude to move the vault and wait a couple of minutes for the move to complete might explain why I find it so easy, but I see no reason to do it in any other way.
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Colin Turner (@ColinTurnerTN66) reported@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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Bocamax (@Bocamax1) reportedI want Grok to win. But it's useless about 90% of the time I try to use it as a free user. Dropbox got rich by offering limited free access. Gemini works 100% of the time. OpenAI works most of the time. Anthropic works most of the time. Cleary xAI is in fiscal trouble.
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america is an embarrassment🖕🏻🧊 (@abadlittlevibe) reported@DaddyAndJaxson @kdriley05 Whelp you've got the Dropbox login...do what you need to do ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Pato (@pvicens_) reported@ihtesham2005 syncthing is great until you realize you just became your own IT department. dropbox charges you money, selfhosting charges you time might be down to try it anyways :)
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Rogerio Ferreira (@rogeriofza) reported@FMSlovakia portugal 2 meu super - dropbox link is not working
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Ryan McKeen (@ryanmckeen) reportedLawyers, your biggest barrier to AI isn't AI. It's that your data lives in 6 places. Dropbox. Drive. Email. Hard drive. A spreadsheet only one person can find. Fix that first.
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Lars Alister 💖🔜Anthrocon & Littles Jamboree 2026 (@Lars_Alister) reportedWait a ******* moment she sold the movies she was asked to take down on Dropbox? Without consent or knowledge of the other person? If a man had did that we would be having conversations about him being dangerous or a predator. About how he is a consent violator. So where is the accountability!!!
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Elias Al (@iam_elias1) reportedThen 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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Robert DC🛸🦾 (@RDecrypto) reported5/ Cursor turned down SpaceX's $60B offer. Now valued at $50B. 2 years ago: an open-source side project. Today: worth more than Dropbox + Slack + Pinterest combined. AI dev tools: biggest opportunity or biggest bubble in tech? What did I miss this week? 👇