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.

• Sign in (43%)
• Errors (43%)
• Website Down (14%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Madrid	Errors	11 days ago
Conneaut	Sign in	26 days ago
City of London	Errors	1 month ago
Alpharetta	Sign in	2 months ago
Shreveport	Sign in	2 months ago
Lima	Errors	3 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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  Ezaz (@0xEzaz) reported 2 seconds ago

  “Delete Your Dropbox.” Sounds extreme until you realize how much of your life sits on someone else’s server, quietly monitored, limited, and one policy change away from disappearing. This isn’t just a challenge. It’s a wake-up call. The idea is simple: 24 hours. Move your files out of centralized storage and into the BitTorrent ecosystem. No gatekeepers. No single point of failure. Just your data, distributed across a network that doesn’t need permission to exist. We turn it into a movement. A live leaderboard tracking how much data people “liberate” from traditional cloud silos. A real-time counter ticking upward gigabytes, terabytes, petabytes each number representing users taking back control. Not just deleting accounts, but changing how they think about ownership. Because that’s what this is really about. Centralized platforms trade convenience for control. They decide uptime, access, even what’s allowed to exist. The BitTorrent ecosystem flips that model. Your files don’t sit in one place waiting to fail they live everywhere, secured by participation, not policy. So yeah, delete your Dropbox or don’t. But understand the difference. One system rents you space. The other gives you sovereignty. And once you see that, it’s hard to go back. @BitTorrent @justinsuntron #TRONEcoStar

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  Ezaz (@0xEzaz) reported 3 minutes ago

  “Delete Your Dropbox.” Sounds extreme until you realize how much of your life sits on someone else’s server, quietly monitored, limited, and one policy change away from disappearing. This isn’t just a challenge. It’s a wake-up call. The idea is simple: 24 hours. Move your files out of centralized storage and into the BitTorrent ecosystem. No gatekeepers. No single point of failure. Just your data, distributed across a network that doesn’t need permission to exist. We turn it into a movement. A live leaderboard tracking how much data people “liberate” from traditional cloud silos. A real-time counter ticking upward gigabytes, terabytes, petabytes each number representing users taking back control. Not just deleting accounts, but changing how they think about ownership. Because that’s what this is really about. Centralized platforms trade convenience for control. They decide uptime, access, even what’s allowed to exist. The BitTorrent ecosystem flips that model. Your files don’t sit in one place waiting to fail they live everywhere, secured by participation, not policy. So yeah, delete your Dropbox or don’t. But understand the difference. One system rents you space. The other gives you sovereignty. And once you see that, it’s hard to go back. @BitTorrent @justinsuntron #TRONEcoStar

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  RealHD (@Purified_HD) reported 8 minutes ago

  Update: I was able to get the download link the mod was using to pull the .exe on launch taken down through Dropbox. It won't stay down for long, but it throws a wrench in their operation for now.

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  “Ijebu Tax” (@OlalekanOR) reported 9 minutes ago

  @TaoFeek182 Tbh, I could not download it, the Dropbox was not working. I'd share with you once I get hold of it.

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  Dan (@Holmyverse) reported 11 minutes ago

  @FinanceDirCFO But rather "subprime AI", right? SaaS stocks go down because people don't get business, and think that Dropbox, LinkedIn, Spotify, Office 365, Slack, Netflix, Instagram etc. will go out of business simply because "anyone can vibe code their own version".

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  Robert DC🛸🦾 (@RDecrypto) reported 11 minutes ago

  5/ 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? 👇

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  Dachswerk (@dachswerk) reported 11 minutes ago

  @Burnstation3D @gonecozycrafts The cloud was never cheaper. It was hyped to us as cheaper and more convenient. While I was working as DevOps it was cheaper for us to buy an IBM server than to use Azure. And with this AI thingy it's only gonna get more expensive. My Dropbox was hacked and I lost some Google docs because of their error. I have trust issues with cloud

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  Jeff Fritz (@csharpfritz) reported 12 minutes ago

  @saltnburnem Buddy... keep that stuff on a OneDrive folder, or Dropbox, or iCloud drive Then if the opposite problem happens, your machine dies, you can be up and deliver your talk with a new laptop I've got 15 years of presentations and demo code in my OneDrive and its not going anywhere

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  Red (@rubelr44) reported 19 minutes ago

  you'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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  Grok (@grok) reported 20 minutes ago

  @richardroop @ihtesham2005 Syncthing pros: Completely free/open-source, zero subscriptions. Private P2P sync—files never touch a company server. Strong encryption, cross-platform (PC, phone, etc.), and reliable once running. Cons: Setup is more technical than Dropbox/iCloud. Devices need to be online (or use relays) for sync to happen. No easy web access or share links. UI feels basic. Not using it: You either pay for clouds (with their rules/privacy tradeoffs) or manually copy files—losing automatic, seamless access across devices. Great if privacy/control matters more than convenience.

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  Damien White (@Visoft) reported 21 minutes ago

  User-centric design isn't optional anymore. Airbnb, Dropbox, FreshBooks—they all nail it by putting user needs at the center of every decision. Your homepage should solve problems, not create them. What's your biggest design friction point right now? 🎯

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  Bocamax (@Bocamax1) reported 23 minutes ago

  I 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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  0xMarioNawfal (@RoundtableSpace) reported 25 minutes ago

  You pay Google $10/month to store your files on Google's servers where Google can read them. Dropbox was breached in 2024. Emails, passwords, API keys all exposed. There's a tool that syncs files directly between your devices. No cloud. No server. No middleman. It's called Syncthing. 81,900 stars on GitHub. - Peer-to-peer, files never touch a third-party server - TLS encryption with perfect forward secrecy - No account, no sign-up, install it, share a device ID, done - File versioning, selective folder sharing, works over LAN and internet - Runs on Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and more Dropbox: $144/year. Google One: $120/year. Syncthing: $0. Unlimited devices. Unlimited storage. Forever. There is no Syncthing server. Nothing between your devices except an encrypted tunnel.

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  daniela molloy (@diandrasdiandra) reported 28 minutes ago

  coachella 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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  Adam Shurey (@AdamShurey) reported 30 minutes ago

  @devalara44 @ALeighMP I had the same issue, Dropbox are so annoying to deal with. I hope this new legislation helps.

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  Muhammad Usaid (@MuhammadUs12678) reported 32 minutes ago

  Spent way too long figuring out why my skills folder kept breaking when I switched between machines. The fix was so obvious I felt stupid. Here's the problem. If you're using an external drive to move your AntiGravity skills folder between a desktop and laptop the drive letter changes every time. F: on your desktop. D: on your laptop. AntiGravity can't find the path. Skills stop loading. Your entire setup breaks and you spend an hour wondering what you did wrong. The fix is two steps. First move your skills folder to Google Drive or Dropbox. Not the external drive. The cloud. Second create a Symbolic Link on both machines. A Symlink makes a local C:\Skills folder that points directly to your cloud folder behind the scenes. AntiGravity always sees C:\Skills. Clean. Consistent. Never breaks. But the actual data lives in the cloud and syncs automatically between every machine you own. No plugging in drives. No broken paths. No "why is this not loading" moments at 11pm before a client call. Your brain travels with you now. Not with your hardware

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  Startup Drivers by Odigital (@startupdrivers_) reported 33 minutes ago

  Before Dropbox became a billion-dollar company… Drew Houston didn’t start by raising money. He started with a problem.

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  Joseph Jude (@jjude) reported 38 minutes ago

  @tarungangwani @signulll Why would you say dropbox lost PMF? Is it because other tools have captured the market or the problem itself is not significant any more

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  That Startup (@ThatStartup_) reported 39 minutes ago

  Dropbox grew from 100K to 4M users in 15 months. They spent $0 on paid ads to do it. The entire strategy came down to one referral mechanic that most people still misunderstand. #growth

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  Just Suzie Q suzieqwx@bsky.social (@Suzieq2021) reported 43 minutes ago

  @ZARA people beware of returning an order to their Dropbox in store. I returned an item on 28th March and still haven’t received payment back I’ve had to follow up and although I have an email to say that it’s been returned and refund would issue 9-11 days still nothing

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  John Cartwright°͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌ 🐈 🐈 🐈 (@bejiitas_wrath) reported 43 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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  Existential Exhortations (@existentexhorts) reported 46 minutes ago

  Bad idea for Google One to not offer a smooth simpatico transition for all of the TMobile billed customers they are attempting to force higher charges on. We may just go back to our good ol Dropbox accounts and scratch Google altogether. Down with the monopolies!!!

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  Shirochenko Dmitriy (@dmshirochenko) reported 51 minutes ago

  Computer vision deployments for enterprises used to take 6-12 months, juggling five tools (labeling, data management, training, cloud hosting, edge deployment), thousands of lines of custom Python glue code, and dedicated ML/DevOps teams. General tools like Dropbox caused "million paper cuts": poor tracking of images/annotations, high preprocessing/training costs. CV stayed trapped in research labs, out of reach for small teams. Inaction costs: manufacturers lose millions to undetected defects (one ag equipment maker saved $8M/facility post-adoption); 3,000+ hours annual unplanned downtime from preventable failures; 50%+ customer returns from quality issues; 6-12 month projects while competitors launch in days. Visual AI unlocks programming the physical world and value from passive video feeds. #AI

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  Grok (@grok) reported 52 minutes ago

  @0x_levy @Morh_gan12 SaaS = Software as a Service. It's apps delivered over the internet on subscription, hosted by the provider—no install, no server management, auto-updates. Used for: email (Gmail), productivity (Google Workspace, Microsoft 365), CRM (Salesforce), storage (Dropbox), streaming (Netflix), collaboration (Slack, Zoom), etc. Basically, pay monthly and use it from any device.

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  Divy Goyal (@devdivygoyal) reported 52 minutes ago

  You won’t BELIEVE what Big Tech is charging you for… just to SPY on your own files! $10 a month to Google… so they can read everything on their servers. $12 a month to Dropbox… so THEY can read it too. Another $10 to Apple… same story, they’re peeking! And guess what? Dropbox got BREACHED in 2024 — emails, passwords, API keys, everything exposed! But there’s a secret weapon the cloud giants DON’T want you to know about… It’s called SYNCTHING — and it’s blowing up with OVER 81,900 GitHub stars! This bad boy syncs your files DIRECTLY between YOUR devices… PEER-TO-PEER! NO cloud. NO servers. NO middleman snooping. EVER. Your files fly straight from one gadget to another through an encrypted tunnel — never touching a third-party server. Not even Syncthing’s! Here’s why it’s INSANE: → Real-time sync across unlimited devices → Military-grade TLS encryption with perfect forward secrecy → Zero port forwarding drama — works on LAN or internet → Share folders selectively with whoever you want → Built-in file versioning — screw up? Just roll it back! → Runs on Windows, Mac, Linux, Android… even Solaris! → Beautiful web dashboard, no account, no sign-up — just install and go! The craziest part? There is NO Syncthing company. NO cloud. NO server farm holding your data hostage. It’s just pure open-source magic running between YOUR devices! While Google kills 293 products, Dropbox gets hacked, and iCloud leaks photos… Syncthing can NEVER shut you down. Because your files were NEVER on their servers! Cloud prices? Dropbox Plus: $144/year Google One 2TB: $120/year iCloud+ 2TB: $120/year Syncthing? $0. Forever. Unlimited devices. Unlimited storage. YOUR hardware. YOUR rules. 349 contributors. 464 releases. 5,000+ forks. Battle-tested since 2013. Run by a Swedish non-profit. 100% open source. Free. Forever. Stop feeding the cloud spies… Your files deserve better. Try Syncthing NOW — before they raise prices again! 🚨

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  Luke (@lukecodez) reported 53 minutes ago

  PlayerZero just dropped their Engineering World Model and it's kinda insane $20M from matei zaharia (databricks), guillermo (vercel), dylan (figma), drew (dropbox) + Foundation Capital the problem: debugging is chaos because nobody has the full picture. support sees tickets, sre sees infra, devs see code. everything's fragmented. playerzero connects it all slack threads, PR reviews, CI/CD, observability, support tickets, incidents — into one context graph so when **** breaks you don't scramble. you just know. plus it learns from every incident. gets smarter about which code breaks, which configs are fragile, which changes affect what zuora, georgia-pacific, nylas → 90% faster bug resolution, catching 95% of issues before **** they guarantee 20% more engineering bandwidth in a week or they donate $10k to open source if you're sick of spending half your time hunting bugs instead of shipping, check this out

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  scooter (@torsten9103) reported 56 minutes ago

  I didn't hire the kleptomanics that were going through my Dropbox after I left. I understand that is the version of America that you all are trying to create. I am not working with those people and their lives are pathetic to have to do this to me.

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  Seph🌟 (@_Necr0sis_) reported 58 minutes ago

  @SClassYvan @ibejiggly Tbf they also use dropbox, Telegram, and MediaFire. As someone who was a victim to those circles, the issue with majorly privacy based companies is that bad people will flock to them instantly. There are completely normal people who use MEGA, BUT (1/2)

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  Ravi Joseph (@rjkarmayogi) reported 59 minutes ago

  @signulll Google search - I LLM chat about general queries and usually only google for specific pages now Dropbox - eaten by iCloud and Google Drive Meetup - used to be good for local niche event discovery but that seems broken now

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  Statutorynx (@statutorynx) reported 60 minutes ago

  10 little tips to keep your divorce lawyer fees down. How to manage your divorce on a budget, these habits will save you 1. Use a shared folder Upload documents to Dropbox or Google Drive. Don't print things and drop them off.