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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.

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  • 57% Sign in (57%)
  • 43% Errors (43%)

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Dropbox Issues Reports

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  • jishaochen89766
    Sean (@jishaochen89766) reported

    And finally, I find the problem is In the " Remotely Save " option, there is a set name "Change The Remote Base Directory) I need to find the name of the file folder in Dropbox, and fill it in this parameter... So everything is Light....Sync ....

  • Holmyverse
    Dan (@Holmyverse) reported

    @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".

  • diandrasdiandra
    daniela molloy (@diandrasdiandra) reported

    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?

  • Renildofogareu
    Renildo Fogaréu (@Renildofogareu) reported

    Dropbox refuses to issue annual refunds even if the payment was recent. @DropboxSupport @Dropbox

  • jtl2dotnet
    John Lamont is making waifus (@jtl2dotnet) reported

    @ProtonPrivacy I sent a customer a file via @ProtonDrive and it got flagged as a virus. They were running Google Chrome and AVG on a Motorola device. Have you guys gotten any reports of issues with these? Same file on Dropbox went through without an issue.

  • philkyprianou
    Phil Kyprianou 💀☕️ (@philkyprianou) reported

    Something interesting happened today. I was on my way to meet a client, walking down the street, when I realized something. The document I needed to send them was still sitting on my laptop at home. Not in Google Drive. Not in Dropbox. Just a file on my computer. Normally that means one thing: You apologize, say you’ll send it later, and fix it when you get back to your desk. But this time I tried something different. I pulled out my phone and texted Claude. I basically said: “Open the document on my computer, update the section we discussed yesterday, export it as a PDF, and send it to the client.” And then I kept walking. Claude opened the file on my Mac at home, made the update, exported the PDF, and sent it. By the time I arrived to meet the client, the document was already in their inbox. No remote desktop. No complicated setup. Just a message from my phone. This is a new feature called Dispatch inside Claude Cowork. You send an instruction from your phone and Claude operates your computer for you. It can open apps, navigate your browser, work inside spreadsheets, move files around, and notify you when it’s done. Your computer still needs to stay on. But you don’t need to be at it. Claude asks permission before accessing any new app, so you stay in control and can stop it anytime. But the real shift here is bigger than the feature itself. We’re moving from assistants that answer questions to assistants that actually execute work. And honestly, this feels like the OpenCLAW moment for everyone. Not for developers. Not for power users. For anyone. You just text what you want done, and your computer does it. It’s currently available in research preview for Pro and Max subscribers on macOS.

  • OlalekanOR
    “Ijebu Tax” (@OlalekanOR) reported

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

  • rmccain_cns
    Ryan McCain (@rmccain_cns) reported

    Shadow IT used to mean employees running Dropbox without IT approval. Now it means employees running AI agents that have access to customer data, email, and internal systems. Same problem, different stakes. The liability exposure is not comparable.

  • PatrickDanielAl
    Patrick Daniel Alpha (@PatrickDanielAl) reported

    Instead, I point Claude at the shared Dropbox link. It reads the folder structure, finds the right product, and drills down into the High Res image folders automatically.

  • Gig_Digger
    𝕲𝖎𝖌 𝕯𝖎𝖌𝖌𝖊𝖗 (@Gig_Digger) reported

    @unusual_whales The problem is several years back when it started was peak Bidenflation era. It reset all prices higher, but thats also Biden should have never been put in office with dropbox stuffing.

  • tryraziel
    Raziel (@tryraziel) reported

    Drew Houston got rejected by every major VC in Silicon Valley. Today Dropbox is worth $8B. Here's the pivot that changed everything. 2007: Houston was a frustrated MIT student who kept forgetting his USB drive. His solution? A file-syncing tool called Dropbox. The problem: VCs couldn't see the market. → "There's already FTP and email attachments" → "Why not just use a USB drive?" → "The market is too small" Paul Graham at Y Combinator was the only one who got it. But even he made Houston prove demand first. Houston's genius move: Instead of building the full product, he created a 3-minute demo video showing Dropbox syncing files across devices. The video went viral on Digg. Sign-ups jumped from 5,000 to 75,000 overnight. Suddenly VCs were calling him. The lesson: When investors can't see your vision, show them your customers instead. Product demos beat pitch decks every time. What's the best way you've seen a founder prove market demand before raising?

  • glitchtruth
    Glitch Truth (@glitchtruth) reported

    the bottleneck is OSC 52 only forwards text, not image bytes. workaround most people land on: screenshot to a synced folder (Dropbox/iCloud) and reference the path, or scp it over before pasting. iTerm2's imgcat works the other direction but not for input. real fix would need a custom escape sequence nobody's shipped yet.

  • 0xEzaz
    Ezaz (@0xEzaz) reported

    “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

  • dachswerk
    Dachswerk (@dachswerk) reported

    @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

  • lukecodez
    Luke (@lukecodez) reported

    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

  • Nil053
    Nil (@Nil053) reported

    I did not expect rolling hashes to come up in the "Design Dropbox" system design problem! When designing Dropbox, it is important to discuss chunking for large files: To upload 50GB file, we split it into smaller chunks (say, 4MB each) and upload them individually. This makes uploads fault-tolerant: a network disconnect doesn't ruin the entire upload; we just resume the remaining chunks. But what if the file changes locally? Do we reupload the whole thing? The next idea is to store the hash of each chunk as metadata, locally and remotely. Then, we only reupload chunks whose hash has changed. But that's just normal hashing; we haven't got to the rolling hash part yet... Consider the worst case: append one byte at the *start* of the file. Every chunk boundary shifts by one byte, every chunk hash changes, and we reupload everything. The chunks we previously uploaded are still physically present in the local file, just not aligned to 4MB offsets. That's where the rolling hash comes in: we use it to compute, in linear time, the hash of every 4MB window in the local file - not just those aligned to offsets that are multiples of 4MB. This way, if a chunk we previously uploaded is still intact *anywhere* in the local file, even if it moved around, we will detect it, and we can skip uploading it. We only need to upload the bits between those chunks (and accept that our chunks will not always be exactly 100MB).

  • MrJudgeXXX
    Mr. Judge (@MrJudgeXXX) reported

    @TheRitaaBang **** look like a Dropbox folder it’s terrible

  • raftersranch17
    Mike Sawyer (@raftersranch17) reported

    @jenvanlaar @Hounsizzle It's valuable currency. The outer envelope is where you sign the affidavit. How would you catch a culprit ? That is the problem we face. Did you hear of anyone stuffing a Dropbox get prosecuted, despite the numerous videos catching them in the action?

  • liam_mcknight
    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

  • Wisemenmentors
    The Wisemen Alpha (@Wisemenmentors) reported

    Told properly for the first time @toly. Soviet Ukraine. 13 years at Qualcomm. Dropbox. 4 AM at Cafe Sole with two coffees and a beer. The moment you realized the problem wasn't consensus, it was time itself.

  • vestacreds
    VestaCreds (@vestacreds) reported

    Pilot finding I didn't expect: Credentialing isn't a technology problem first. It's a paper problem. Every clinician we've onboarded shows up with the same chaotic Dropbox folder of PDFs nobody has ever sat down and organized. Fix the paper. Then the workflow gets easy.

  • mhartl
    Michael Hartl (@mhartl) reported

    For the billionth time @Apple is failing to properly sync my files across devices. It’s hard to believe iCloud is still so incompetent after so many years. I’m sure it’s not a trivial problem, but @Dropbox gets it right every single time. Surely isn’t too hard for Apple?

  • Arkasiraee
    Ammanichanda (@Arkasiraee) reported

    @anvisha The breakdown to see what this really means, An AI just launched that eliminates all marketing jobs. Not some of them. All of them. SEO. Social media. Content writing. Ad creation. Brand design. Pitch decks. Community management. Reddit posts. Email campaigns. All of it. All these jobs are going away. A marketing team costs $200K to $500K a year. An agency costs $10K to $20K a month. A freelance designer charges $5K per project. This does all of it. Every single function. For almost nothing. Like 10% of the cost. Backed by General Catalyst. Jeffrey Katzenberg. Executives from Dropbox, Stripe, and Google. $7.5 million in funding. Thousands already using it. And it has an API. Meaning other AI agents feed it work automatically. AI writes the copy. AI designs the assets. AI posts it. AI optimizes it. No human ever touches it. It just gets better and better with time and eventually the curve will be even tough for humans to read. A full marketing department. End to end. Automated. A week ago AI replaced coders. Before that writers. Before that customer service. Now every marketing job. All at once. From one launch. Just one AI as of now. Every single week another AI drops and another career becomes a subscription. And it’s not slowing down. It’s speeding up You are less relevant with each passing minute.

  • P0tofSn33d
    ᴾᵒᵗ ᵒᶠ ˢⁿᵉᵉᵈ (@P0tofSn33d) reported

    @Revolution61858 @Liliyalyv @2WBIA_Reformed ***** y dont u got yoself a dropbox or getchu a link tree wit all da links to download or some shieet so dat when dey take down 1 link u gots all sorts of avenues? Hustler Mindset *****.

  • dmshirochenko
    Shirochenko Dmitriy (@dmshirochenko) reported

    @rumevideo Built a full end-to-end video stack from scratch. Ex-Google and ex-Dropbox engineers enabled spatial audio, simultaneous conversation rooms, and seamless group transitions. Impossible with off-the-shelf APIs like Zoom or Twilio. Technical moat was real, but insufficient for sustainability. Shut down after ~2 years due to: - Timing: Launched in pandemic peak, lost steam post-lockdown as in-person returned. - Network effects: Social video needs critical mass to stick. - Monetization: Unclear path vs. free alternatives or ad-supported models. Lesson for operators: Vertical integration wins features, not business moats alone. #AI

  • NoFrankingWay
    Frankly Frank (@NoFrankingWay) reported

    @ElSotong Little of each. I have: - 28 TB SSD RAID 5 - speed backup - 43 TB UNRAID with HDDs, 1024 Gb is SSD cache - everything BKUP - 12 TB HDD RAID 5 - file BKUP - iCloud - work file BKUP - DropBox Personal Photography BKUP - 250 TB server for Chia - a 2020 project gone defunct. So now I have hella storage

  • blackhillsed
    BlackhillsEd (@blackhillsed) reported

    @SgtJulier1776 @CoffeeBlackMD I would suggest @HunterEsoteric Go to his website, sign up for the emails and look at his resources. He is on YT (Taken down before) and Spotify. Once you get the 1st email go to the bottom of the page and get the complete Dropbox vids. Get his cheatsheet as well!

  • sukh_saroy
    Sukh Sroay (@sukh_saroy) reported

    Dropbox stores your files on their servers. Google Drive scans your content. iCloud locks you into Apple's ecosystem. Syncthing does none of that. Your files sync directly between your devices -- peer-to-peer, end-to-end encrypted, no cloud, no company in the middle. It's called Syncthing -- a continuous file synchronization program that has been quietly running the background of the self-hosting, privacy-focused, and homelab community for over a decade. Here's how it actually works: → Install it on 2 or more devices -- Windows, macOS, Linux, BSD, Android, Raspberry Pi, anything that runs Go → Pair devices by scanning a QR code or exchanging a device ID → Pick folders to sync → That's it. Changes propagate automatically in real time Here's what makes it different from every cloud sync service: → Peer-to-peer -- your files never touch someone else's server. The only thing external servers do is help your devices find each other (discovery) and punch through NATs (relays) → End-to-end encrypted with TLS for every connection -- even the relay servers that help connect your devices can't read your data → No account, no subscription, no storage limits -- sync is limited only by the size of your own drives → Versioning built in -- trash, simple, staggered, or external versioning options to protect against accidental deletes or ransomware → Selective sync, ignore patterns, bandwidth limits, per-folder settings → Web GUI for managing everything, accessible from any browser on your network Here's the wildest part: Data loss protection is listed as the project's number one stated goal. Above security, above ease of use, above everything else. That's not a marketing claim. It's in the GOALS.md file at the root of the repository. 80.7K GitHub stars. 4.9K forks. 462 releases. 10+ years of continuous development. 100% open source. MPL-2.0 license. (link in the comments)

  • timbidefi
    timbidefi (@timbidefi) reported

    You are being watched right now and you're paying for it, privacy isn't a feature, it's a decision you make. Google stores your emails, Apple logs your location, Dropbox reads your files. Every cloud service you pay for is a deal you didn't fully read, with a company whose interests are not yours. He read it, built this instead: Custom rack server in his home, fully self-hosted, zero third party access, every byte of data sitting on hardware he physically owns. Email, storage, VPN, everything, running on his infrastructure, under his rules. Nobody can sell it, subpoena it, or lose it in a breach he had no control over. It cost him a weekend to build and less than $300 to run per year. Your data is somewhere right now, the only question is whose terms it's living under.

  • MattDevin6
    Matt Devin (@MattDevin6) reported

    @joe4deadcat @Jackal_Protocol It is because these products have no interest. I use stuff like Dropbox, Microsoft Team etc. in my work. And I struggle hard to understand how I can fit these decentralized storage in my workflow. You can’t call it utility if it doesn’t solve a problem ppl have.