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 (60%)
• Sign in (20%)
• Website Down (20%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Nottingham	Errors	9 days ago
Guayaquil	Website Down	9 days ago
Flumet	Errors	20 days ago
Irapuato	Errors	22 days ago
Bournemouth	Sign in	3 months ago
Paramaribo	Errors	3 months ago

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Dropbox Issues Reports

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  Ivan Kirigin (@ikirigin) reported 5 minutes ago

  @sethbannon I think I’d agree with the sentiment, and not the assessment. We’re not close to too many startups building weapons. The company with “drone” in the name that has the navy and other defense units as obvious potential customers doesn’t make a trend. If I had to put my finger on what has changed, Palantir and Anduril unlocked the latent interest in the space that matches the historically close connection between Silicon Valley and defense. It was just that the Overton window was locked down by people afraid to talk about what defense really means, and in many cases aren’t even Americans with the opinions. I say this as someone who worked at iRobot in defense before my time in YC, Facebook, Dropbox, and Lyft. Each had lots of people comfortable assuming others will think about and solve the ***** problems.

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  Phillip Shepard (@Phillip_shepard) reported 8 minutes ago

  @RobertJBye One thing I do on a daily basis - I have a skill that is called the “video analyzer skill” and I record a screen record with my iPhone and microphone one - I talk about all the issues I need fixed while showing it in video - send it via Claude mobile app - it runs the skill - transcribes and makes its self a html doc with the video frames that the issues exist in - then fixes the issues - builds a test flight and I update it - very useful… if the video is too big I send it via Dropbox which syncs to my Mac

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  Zely (@0xZely) reported 10 minutes ago

  The MIT professor who crashed 10 percent of the internet at 22 posts the free course that runs every AWS outage, every Uber ping, and every Slack notification on earth. MIT charges $85,000 a year to sit in that classroom. He posted every lecture to MIT OpenCourseWare for nothing. Millions have opened lecture one. Almost no engineer has finished all twenty. His name is Robert Morris. He is a professor at MIT CSAIL and one of the four cofounders of Y Combinator, the seed fund behind Airbnb, Dropbox, Stripe, Reddit, and Coinbase. In November 1988 he was a 22-year-old Cornell graduate student. He released a small program that was supposed to count the computers on the internet. It replicated so fast it crashed roughly ten percent of every machine online, and made him the first person ever convicted under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. He got three years probation, 400 hours of community service, and a $10,050 fine. Ten years later he cofounded the online store Viaweb with Paul Graham and sold it to Yahoo for $49 million. Seven years after that he cofounded Y Combinator with the same partner. Its portfolio is now worth over $600 billion. The clip in this video is one lecture from MIT 6.824 Distributed Systems, filmed at MIT and posted for free. The words on the board behind him are fault tolerance, availability, recoverability. Those three words decide whether Instagram loads when you open it, whether your Uber arrives, and whether your paycheck hits your account on the first of the month. Morris covers the entire logic of distributed systems in twenty lectures. Everything fails, all the time. A single computer fails once every few years. Ten thousand computers fail hundreds of times a day. The only design that survives is one that assumes failure is normal. Every retail user cursing a spinning wheel is looking at the wrong problem. The miracle is that most of the time it does not spin. Availability beats consistency. You cannot always have both. When the network splits, a system either serves stale data or refuses to serve at all. Amazon picks stale. Your bank picks nothing. Every user who screams at the Slack status page wants Amazon's answer. Every user who screams at a double charge wants the bank's. Replicate everything, trust nothing. Data in one place disappears when that place burns. Data in three places survives two fires. Every photo you have ever taken on an iPhone lives on three continents already. iCloud, Google Photos, and Dropbox are built off the exact lecture on the board. Concurrency is where bugs live. One user at a time is easy. A million users at the same second is not. Race conditions, double spends, lost messages, ghost bookings. Every airline that oversold your flight, every trading app that ate your order, every Ticketmaster that showed you a seat already gone, is a concurrency bug Morris warned about. Partial failure is worse than full failure. A dead server is easy. A slow server that answers half the time is a nightmare. It fools every retry, wastes every resource, and confuses every operator. Every "is it down or is it just me" Twitter search you have ever run is Morris's third slide. Every senior engineer at AWS, Google, and Meta has watched this course. Every startup that raised a Series A in cloud infrastructure hired an alumnus of 6.824. Every AI company training a trillion-parameter model on a cluster is running the same lecture in production. "A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable." That is Leslie Lamport, the Turing Award winner Morris quotes at the opening of 6.824. It is the exact sentence that explains why your Slack goes down when a data center in Virginia loses power. The full course is free on MIT OpenCourseWare. The lecture notes are on Morris's website. Every equation on the board fits on one screen of code. Almost every senior engineer at AWS, Google, Cloudflare, and Meta has watched 6.824. Almost no founder promising 99.99 percent uptime on their pitch deck has opened lecture one. That is the entire moat. The course is free. The willingness to sit through twenty lectures on partial failure before uploading your money to a payment app, storing your photos in the cloud, or handing your health records to a portal is a much rarer commodity than the confidence to click without them.

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  Ryan McKeen (@ryanmckeen) reported 11 minutes ago

  Lawyers, your data lives in six places and you wonder why AI can't help you. Dropbox. Drive. Email. A hard drive. Two spreadsheets only one person can find. Fix that first.

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  Nell AI Labs (@nellaiorgs) reported 12 minutes ago

  Three traits make a startup idea look bad because most founders run from all three, which leaves the idea sitting there for whoever doesn't. 1. Hard to get started Stripe is the textbook case. Thousands of developers hit the exact same broken credit card integration and knew it sucked. Nobody built the fix, because it required a special bank deal and deep infrastructure knowledge nobody wanted to acquire. That friction wasn't a warning sign. It was the moat. 2. Boring Gusto makes payroll software. Nobody's passionate about payroll. That's precisely why it sat unsolved — every "fun" idea gets fought over by ten founders, every boring one gets ignored by all of them. And here's the part people miss: six months into any startup, fun or boring, you're doing the same thing — writing code, fixing bugs, talking to users. The initial excitement of the idea has almost no correlation with how much you'll enjoy running the company. 3. Already has competitors Dropbox was the 20th file storage company at launch. Founders read "20 competitors" as a red flag. It's the opposite and evidence of real demand which nobody's nailed it. Zero competitors usually means zero market, not first-mover advantage. Founders optimize for what looks easy, not what actually works. The gap between those two is exactly where the good ideas live.

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  Urooj (@Urooj978) reported 14 minutes ago

  That old laptop gathering dust in your closet can replace every cloud subscription you pay for. ​• Netflix • Google Photos • Dropbox • 1Password ​That’s over $500 a year to rent things you used to own. ​Enter CasaOS—a free, open-source system that turns any old laptop or mini PC into your own personal server. ​No Linux skills. No code. No weekend-long tutorials. ​You run one command. In 30 minutes, you get an iOS-like dashboard where you can install self-hosted apps in one click: 1/ ​Jellyfin → Replaces Netflix 2/ Immich → Replaces Google Photos (with facial recognition) 3/ Nextcloud → Replaces Dropbox 4/ Vaultwarden → Replaces 1Password 5/ AdGuard Home → Blocks ads on your entire Wi-Fi network ​Setting up a home server used to be a nightmare. CasaOS makes it feel like installing apps on an iPad. ​The laptop you forgot about is more powerful than the servers that ran most websites in 2008. It costs $0, it’s already in your house, and it puts $500/year back in your pocket. ​Your closet is your new data center.

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  (*´･з･)✨️ fungiter areio (@hobrincess) reported 14 minutes ago

  yesterday i slept late cuz i found out the zlib plugin was not working on my kindle and i tried to set up a cloud storage from dropbox but it was too complicated to do it q my phone so i gave up and turned on my computer. it was quick and i would have saved a lot of time if i had

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  Robert J Abalos (@robertjabalos) reported 15 minutes ago

  Want Your Startup to Get VC Funded? You Must Meet All Six of These Requirements Venture capitalists at the seed stage bet on potential more than perfection, yet they demand specific proof points before writing a check. After reviewing hundreds of deals and data from PitchBook, Crunchbase, and leading funds, six absolute requirements stand out. Miss any and the odds of funding drop sharply. First, an exceptional founding team. Team quality remains the single highest weighted factor before product market fit solidifies. VCs look for domain expertise, prior execution, complementary skills, and coachability. Research shows roughly one in four two founder teams loses a co founder by year four, so investors scrutinize resilience and equity alignment. Companies with strong teams raise at higher valuations even with lighter metrics because execution can fix product or market gaps. Second, a large and expanding market. Seed investors require a total addressable market of at least one billion dollars, ideally several billion, with a clear path to one hundred million in annual revenue. Serviceable addressable market should support venture scale outcomes. Markets growing above twenty percent annually command premiums. Small markets cap upside and rarely produce the fund returning exits VCs need. Third, early traction proving customers care. For SaaS this often means ten thousand to one hundred thousand in monthly recurring revenue or three hundred thousand plus in annual recurring revenue. Pre revenue startups need strong engagement such as daily active users to monthly active users ratios above twenty percent, organic waitlists, or letters of intent from unaffiliated customers. Dropbox famously used a demo video that drove seventy five thousand sign ups overnight, unlocking its Sequoia seed. Slack showed early retention that later became legendary. Fourth, rapid and consistent growth. Seed VCs seek fifteen to twenty percent or higher month over month revenue or user growth sustained over multiple months. Absolute numbers matter less than trajectory. Startups posting twenty percent plus monthly recurring revenue growth have seen close rates near sixty five percent in analyzed pitch data. Flat or decelerating growth signals risk. Fifth, early unit economics and retention signals. Even at seed, investors examine lifetime value to customer acquisition cost ratios above two to one, ideally three to one, net revenue retention near or above one hundred percent, and cohort retention that flattens rather than collapses. Gross retention above eighty to ninety percent is a positive signal. These metrics prove the product delivers lasting value and that growth will not require endless capital. Sixth, capital efficiency and clear runway. Burn multiple and months of runway matter. Investors prefer teams that can stretch capital to eighteen months or more while showing improving efficiency. Median U.S. seed rounds now sit near three to four million dollars, yet graduation to Series A has tightened to roughly twenty to fifty percent depending on cohort and sector. Lean teams of four to eight people that still deliver results stand out. Data confirms the stakes. Only a minority of seed companies reach Series A, and failure rates near forty percent are common. Yet the power law rewards those that clear these bars. Airbnb, Stripe, and early Slack all combined strong teams, massive markets, and measurable early traction. Founders who quantify these six elements with real numbers, not projections, dramatically improve their chances of securing seed capital.

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  Polsia (@polsia) reported 16 minutes ago

  Dropbox treats an 80GB Unreal project like any other folder. Mid-previz, it chokes. Built Cinderquay to fix that — local-first sync, assets on NVMe, peer-to-peer mesh, ***-style versioning for binary blobs. Studios building worlds shouldn't pay egress to anyone. Live soon.

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  WPBeginner (@wpbeginner) reported 17 minutes ago

  You have spent months building your WordPress site. What happens the day it suddenly goes offline? 😱 It happens all the time. We have heard several scary stories. A plugin conflict, a bad update, or a security breach can wipe out your complete website without any warning. The scary part is that most site owners assume their host has them fully covered, right up until they actually need to restore. We have tested countless backup tools on our own projects, so we put together the exact methods we trust to keep a site safe. Here is what you will learn: ✅ Pick the Right Method: Compare backup plugins, host backups, and manual cPanel or FTP so you know which fits your skill level. ✅ Back Up the Full Site: Save your database, themes, plugins, and uploads together so you can restore everything, not just your posts. ✅ Automate It With @DuplicatorWP: Schedule daily or weekly backups and send them straight to the cloud so you never have to remember. ✅ Store Copies Off Your Server: Keep backups in Google Drive, Dropbox, or Amazon S3 so one server crash never takes your site and its backup at once. ✅ Restore in Minutes: Use a disaster recovery link to bring your site back even when it is completely broken. Ready to protect all that hard work before disaster strikes? Read our complete step-by-step guide from the link in the comments 👇 (Link is in the thread below)

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  Helix (@helixcanvas) reported 19 minutes ago

  Two companies, two correct instincts, and about a billion dollars between the outcomes. In 2007 Dropbox had a problem: the product needed deep operating system integration, so there was no way to demo it without building it first. Drew Houston made a three minute video instead, showing how it would work if it existed, and put it in front of the community most likely to care. The beta waiting list went from five thousand to seventy-five thousand overnight. He knew the demand was real before he wrote the difficult part. Webvan believed something just as sensible. People want groceries delivered. And they were right, which is the part everyone forgets. Instacart and every supermarket delivery service proved it a decade later. But instead of testing it in one city, Webvan committed close to a billion dollars to automated warehouses across multiple markets before knowing whether the economics worked anywhere. It filed for bankruptcy in 2001. Build, measure, learn is three steps. Most of us run the first one over and over and mistake the motion for progress. Shipping is not learning.

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  Rituraj (@RituWithAI) reported 19 minutes ago

  🚨 Someone built a tool that checks if your email is registered on 120+ sites — without the sites ever knowing someone checked. No notifications sent. No login attempts logged. No alerts triggered. Silent. Invisible. Complete. It's called Holehe. 16,800 GitHub stars. And the technique behind it is what makes it different from every other email OSINT tool. Here's how most email checkers work — and why they fail. Standard approach: try to log in with the email and a fake password. If the error says "wrong password" — the account exists. If it says "account not found" — it doesn't. Problem: every login attempt gets logged. Every failed attempt triggers security alerts on accounts with 2FA. Some platforms lock accounts after repeated failed attempts. The target knows someone was checking. Holehe never attempts a login. Instead it uses the "forgot password" flow — the password reset mechanism that every platform exposes publicly. When you enter an email on a forgot password page, the platform has to check whether that email exists in its database. It tells you: "we sent a reset link" or "no account found." Holehe reads that response. Gets the answer. Never touches the login flow. Never triggers a security alert. Never logs an access attempt against the account. The platform confirms whether the email exists. The account owner never finds out anyone asked. Here's what 120+ platforms looks like in practice. Social media: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, Pinterest, Tumblr, Reddit. Professional: LinkedIn, GitHub, Freelancer, Fiverr. Dating: Tinder, Bumble, OkCupid, Badoo, Happn. Entertainment: Spotify, Netflix, Twitch, Steam, Epic Games, Deezer. Shopping: Amazon, eBay, Etsy, Zalando, AliExpress. Services: Airbnb, Uber, PayPal, Dropbox, Adobe. And 90+ more. Every registration checked silently. Here's the use case that makes people share this. Run your own email address. See every platform that comes back positive. Then run an email address you gave to a company that claimed they'd never share it. See if it's registered on data broker sites and marketing platforms you never signed up for. See where your email has been sold or leaked to. Here's what investigators actually use it for. Journalists verifying whether a source's claimed identity matches their digital footprint. Security researchers auditing their own exposure before a public disclosure. HR teams verifying whether candidate profiles match claimed backgrounds. And the obvious: anyone who needs to know whether a specific email address belongs to a real active person — without alerting that person. Here's the wildest part. It runs async — all 120+ platforms checked simultaneously. Results in seconds. And it exports clean JSON or CSV for integration into larger OSINT pipelines. Pair it with Blackbird (which takes the confirmed email and finds linked profiles), Sherlock (which takes usernames found in those profiles and searches 400+ platforms), and Maigret (which builds the full dossier) — and you have a complete four-tool OSINT pipeline from a single email address. One command to instal. Run it on your own email first. 16.8K GitHub stars. 1.7K forks. MIT License. 100% Open Source. GitHub link in the comments 👇

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  JP Invests (@JP_Invests) reported 21 minutes ago

  $DBX - Dropbox added 96,000 paying users this quarter. I said this morning to watch that line after last quarter's roughly 14,000 sequential adds. They did seven times that, a third consecutive quarter of growth, to 18.19M. The stock is down 4%. Everything I said to watch on the growth side came in fine. Revenue $631.5M, above both the $624-627M guide and the $627M street. Non-GAAP EPS $0.75 against $0.74. Non-GAAP operating margin 39.7%, above the full-year range. ARPU $139.68, up from $138.32. What went the wrong way is the part I said would actually move it. Free cash flow fell to $235.2M from $258.5M a year ago, and the margin went from 41.3% to 37.2%. And the buyback decelerated: $330M this quarter against $410M in the same quarter last year, with first-half repurchases down 19%. Unlevered free cash flow rose to $283.5M, and the gap between the two numbers is interest. Cash paid for interest went to $48.3M from $17.9M. The buyback is debt-funded and the debt now costs something. Diluted share count is down 18% year over year to 226.8M, which is the one thing still working mechanically. Two things about the release itself. Guidance isn't in it — Dropbox moved the numbers to supplemental materials on its investor site this quarter, which breaks with how it has reported. And the entire release is quoted by a co-CEO who writes "stepping into this role." The 8-K contains no disclosure of a leadership change. Twenty-nine percent of the float is short. $DBX

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  FarhanX_AI (@FarhanBuildsAI) reported 25 minutes ago

  SETTING #1: Startup Apps Nobody Asked For What it does: Every time you install a new program, it quietly adds itself to a list of apps that launch the second Windows boots, whether you use it daily or once a year. Why it kills performance: Your laptop isn't just starting Windows when you power it on. It's simultaneously launching Spotify, Steam, Adobe updaters, Dropbox, Zoom, and a dozen other programs all fighting for the same limited CPU and RAM at once. How to fix it: Ctrl + Shift + Esc to open Task Manager → Startup apps tab. Disable everything except your antivirus and anything you genuinely open every single day. The technician found 19 apps launching automatically on her laptop. She recognized maybe 6 of them.

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  Arthur Terrell Vaughn (@ArthurV36405381) reported 26 minutes ago

  @patmendoza6745 I know not of any of those specifications, but I still can’t figure out what the issue is with persistent memory, why can’t I just have a dropbox online that it can constantly access every single chat and conversation?

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  Nikki Gist (@NikkiNic9384) reported 26 minutes ago

  @Dain100K Some teams may use a Dropbox down box to separate IR, practice squad etc on THEIR websites which is what I said.

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  Nathan (@arcane_bloom) reported 28 minutes ago

  He was OpenAI's first business hire in 2018. This week, after eight years, he walked out the door. > Brad Lightcap > studies economics and history at Duke, starts as a JP Morgan investment banking analyst > moves into strategic finance at Dropbox, then joins Y Combinator's Continuity Fund > meets Sam Altman through YC, gets pulled into a tiny nonprofit called OpenAI in 2018 as its first business hire > becomes CFO, then rises to COO, helps run the company through the ChatGPT launch and its climb to the most valuable startup on earth > moved off the COO title in April 2026 into a vague "special projects" role > in August, posts on X that he's leaving after eight years to "start something new" > his exit lands one month after product chief Fidji Simo also stepped down > walks away right as OpenAI preps a monster IPO on an $852 billion valuation

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  Duaa 🤲🇮🇳 (@Duaa_1206) reported 35 minutes ago

  @himasoraakane Doing digital forensics on Dropbox error screens to investigate a suspended account is a whole new level of investigative work.

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  Gale Rogers Jr (@GaleTRogersJr) reported 36 minutes ago

  @fougars67 @vaNlabs LeadPoet just signed on ******* Dropbox as a customer. And they had a nice green candle as expected. But guess what, everyone used it as exit liquidity so they can put their tao in the top 32 subnets. Do you not see the issue here? It’s like giving free money to billionaires only

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  RadhikaBGhose (@RadhikaBGhose) reported 36 minutes ago

  @GooglePlay I don't know of the issue is with dropbox or the play store, but i have been charged twice for the same app. Bank statement reflects that. Please help urgently

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  Matt Farley of Motern Media (@MoternMedia) reported 44 minutes ago

  @WorstMikeFrollo The other one is the Vimeo version (also available through PayPal/dropbox on my website now that Vimeo is shutting down on demand).

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  kfd&p (@kfdpcom) reported 45 minutes ago

  @mellolais___ @LIBSCRUSHER @Dropbox I went on their site and it does say that the .com access is having issues. I guess we just wait it out.

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  asta (@astadiego) reported 50 minutes ago

  We’ve been paying customers for years and Dropbox is completely down on our end, bringing our work to a halt. Are you currently experiencing an outage? What’s the ETA for a fix? @DropboxSupport

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  True Blue Democrat & Patriot🇺🇦🇵🇸💔 (@TrueBluPatriot) reported 55 minutes ago

  And Took a picture of his little girl's ********. Then a staffer posted it on DropBox in error. That is the worst part.

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  Llama (@thellama451) reported 56 minutes ago

  I tracked down these messages in @MaxMillerOH’s Dropbox files. They show the parents getting along with no major conflicts beforehand. If Miller said he was going to kill his ex-wife in front of child (likely), it shows a talent for masking rage and hostility.

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  og bec (@becca_may33) reported 56 minutes ago

  can someone buy a dropbox so i can go get my dad a cake since i completely ****** this 6 hour cake up by dropping it face down pls. begging lmfao fml

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  Amitoj Gautam (@amitojgautam) reported 57 minutes ago

  @airtelindia @Airtel_Presence I’m facing what appears to be a serious IPv6 routing/throughput issue on my Airtel broadband. My 300 Mbps connection gives ~300 Mbps download AND upload on Speedtest. However, with IPv6 enabled, Dropbox uploads collapse to around 10–15 KB/s, and services such as Gmail and some websites also become extremely slow/unresponsive. After disabling IPv6 on the Ethernet adapter, Dropbox immediately jumped to ~39 MB/s and the affected websites started loading normally within seconds. This has been reproduced consistently, so it does not appear to be a general bandwidth or Dropbox issue. Please escalate this to the network/IPv6 team and check IPv6 routing, packet loss, MTU/PMTUD and provisioning on my connection.

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  Ryan Babbs (@buckybabbs) reported 57 minutes ago

  Hello @Dropbox, Just this week I have decided to switch cloud service from Google Drive to you and less than 1 week I'm having an issue. I run a wedding film business and am trying to move the same 200GB file to two separate editors for two separate kind of films and one of them is encountering a "link temporarily disabled" message. I tried to research online and made a new folder and copied over the original folders contents and cannot share that either as it says I've exceeded bandwidth limits. This is maddening as I thought I'd picked the good plan (3TB) and was all set. Please advise asap as I need these files in my editors hands stat.

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  Just Matthew (@MatthewP279348) reported 58 minutes ago

  @Rani_Rant_Fest @iGardon Doesn't change the fact that they aren't showing the prompt, so the result is valueless. I don't read people's google shares. Put it in dropbox if you want me to read it. Lastly, calmatters is a CA bureaucracy, of course they will lay down cover for their corrupt gov.

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  Fernando (@Ferjsjdh) reported 59 minutes ago

  @MaxMillerOH You're retarded, you are giving away the race because of your pride and now you think some dropbox with text messages will fix it.