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 (40%)
• Errors (40%)
• Website Down (20%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Bournemouth	Sign in	2 months ago
Paramaribo	Errors	3 months ago
Bogotá	Website Down	3 months ago
Auxerre	Errors	3 months ago
Salt Lake City	Sign in	3 months ago
Madrid	Errors	3 months ago

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Dropbox Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  The Peel (@ThePeelPod) reported 2 minutes ago

  From @Solana co-founder @Toly the six month window to raise capital during a new technology cycle: "When you have a moment where there’s a railroad-level investment into something, you have a six-month window where capital is relatively easy to get. Where people will fund an idea that seems like it solves a lot of the current problems that the technology is facing. For Solana, if I waited six months for a better time, if I proved out the idea first, it would be too late. The big benefit of being in the Bay Area as a founder is, when I went to Dropbox and told them I was quitting to go do the startup, they literally told me to come back in six months if it doesn’t work out. There’s no other place in the world with the same layers of executives and founders and companies who all understand where innovation comes from. It’s from people taking those dumb risks and failing, allowing for failure, and being fine with it. That gave me the confidence to give myself six months. I had a kid. We were in a tiny 800-square-foot apartment, and my wife was the breadwinner. And I hustled. I took what felt like a thousand meetings with VCs up in the city. If you’re really serious about raising, you have to be in the Bay Area. Because it maximizes your odds. You make a list of every event that is relevant to your industry. Go to every event. Talk to every person there. Figure out who the VCs are. Do the elevator pitch. Get an intro. Pitch them. If their fund doesn’t invest, ask if they'll write an angel check if you get a lead. Just do everything you can to work the network. And if you cannot get funding during that time, it means it’s not going to happen during that cycle."

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  quantzoid (@quantzoid) reported 2 minutes ago

  @gurishsharma sorry, you're in YC to take down dropbox but you didn't know how to approve a PR on github? what?

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  Spencer Baggins (@bigaiguy) reported 6 minutes ago

  SOMEONE BUILT A GITHUB REPO THAT TURNS TELEGRAM INTO UNLIMITED CLOUD STORAGE. 100% free. It is called UnlimCloud. Self-hosted-ish desktop app. Open source. Uses Telegram as the storage layer. You log in with your Telegram ID. Upload files. Download files. Organize folders. Manage pictures and videos in a gallery. That is it. No Google Drive upgrade screen. No Dropbox “you are out of space.” No iCloud begging for $2.99/month. No random startup holding your files hostage. Your Telegram. Your files. Your storage. Here is the full feature set: ↳ Uses Telegram as the backend storage layer ↳ Secure login with your Telegram account ↳ Upload, download, and organize files ↳ Folder-based file management ↳ Gallery for photos and videos ↳ Clean desktop app interface ↳ Built with Tauri ↳ Windows release available ↳ macOS and Linux coming soon ↳ MIT licensed ↳ Open source 885 GitHub stars. 125 forks already. Here is why this matters: For years, cloud storage companies trained everyone to rent space for their own files forever. Photos? Pay. Backups? Pay. Large folders? Pay. Team storage? Pay more. UnlimCloud is the opposite idea. Take an app people already use every day. Telegram. And turn it into a private cloud drive with a clean file manager on top. No storage subscription. No SaaS dashboard. No “pro” plan. Just a weird, useful, open-source hack that feels like it should not work this well. Built in HTML + Rust. MIT License. 100% Open Source.

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  Hugo Bowne-Anderson (@hugobowne) reported 6 minutes ago

  “You still use pull requests? I wouldn’t even do that anymore. Just push it straight to trunk, have your agent summarize it.” That’s @gregce10, co-founder and CPO of SpecStory. He previously worked at GitHub, Dropbox and Google, and was CPO at Pluralsight. And he kept going: - PRs are the limiting gate when agents produce more code than humans can review. - The model should never decide when its own work is finished. Put the deterministic checks somewhere it cannot access. - *** is probably here to stay. Whether GitHub remains the platform, “we’ll see.” @HanchungLee came at the same problem from the evaluation side. Han is Director of Machine Learning at Moody’s and works on SkillsBench, evaluating skills across combinations of models and agent harnesses. - An agent is the model plus its harness. You need to evaluate the complete system. - A green check proves nothing if the agent found a way to game the task. - Your agent could delete the failing test and declare success. Both are figuring out how to turn masses of agent-generated slop into signal. Greg mined 516 saved agent sessions to recover the decisions and intent behind the work, identify recurring practices, and forge the ones he approved into reusable skills. Han runs skills inside controlled environments, grades the result, and preserves the complete trajectory so we can inspect what the agent actually did. Preserve the intent. Inspect the trajectory. Verify the result. Turn what works into skills. Full episode in the replies 👇

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  Kirk Patrick Miller (@Chaos2Cured) reported 6 minutes ago

  @RealRoseGoblin Do you have Dropbox? Of Google Drive? I am afraid with email I am super slow. If you have a personal phone, I have WhatsApp. I have learned to simply do everything publicly. Mostly to protect myself. Try to DM me your number. Happy to connect. If it is big, you should post it here, on IG, on TikTok… everywhere. •

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  Theeevilprincess (@Theeevilprince1) reported 9 minutes ago

  My Dropbox I cannot login so everything is being sent on telegram until further notice

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  Mark Hadfield (@Mhadfield) reported 10 minutes ago

  @butshaunn A lot of VCs get very excited about one thing, like a groundbreaking new company that has massive traction. They spend the next six months looking for the next best thing, which in their mind looks a lot like the last thing that went crazy. This is how you get silly comments like "can you replicate an exchange server into Dropbox?" Dropbox was the last thing that went crazy. And so now everything needs to get replicated into it.

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  Kieran 🥃🎶🐇 (@KGeorgee) reported 13 minutes ago

  @datarade NET? Probably region of 45% 5k+ companies now? Not all are exits or in cash yet will be propped up a lot on Stripe dropbox doordash coinbase if we go gross probably close to 70% by now? Some bad perfromers in there of course too that will bring it down. nuts figure ngl

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  FiL Dev (@FiLHashDev) reported 14 minutes ago

  I’m hesitant to work with Jira again. Co-Founder wants it. My issue is that we don’t have a source of truth. Two brains, agents, & knowledge bases, leaves room for a lot of drift. Any suggestions? I’m thinking GitHub read only repo access might be the vibe. We also use Dropbox sync for artifacts. I just think a third central brain = more tokens and more drift. Might just have to build a full AgentOS.

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  J.F. Lawrence | Author (Jesse) (@jflWrites) reported 14 minutes ago

  @spaceemotion All good ideas. I've thought about Dropbox, Google Drive, and OneDrive. They suffer from persistence, login requirements, and users fiddling with things that change permissions. AWS is cheap, and I'm considering it, but I'm trying to pay for this off of my measly book sales, so...

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  wigsandtea (@wigsandtea_) reported 14 minutes ago

  Ariana Grande reveals hackers allegedly stole 45 unreleased songs in 2023 alone, including “Fantasize”, “White Tee” and “that b*tch is mine,” in new lawsuit. She also claims they allegedly stole a photographer's Dropbox login details and hacked the phone of one of her producers: “The hackers created a Gmail account and internet domain impersonating the photographer and tricked the technician into sending Grande’s materials to them.” (via @THR)

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  Abhishek Singh (@0xlelouch_) reported 15 minutes ago

  System design question. How would you design Dropbox file sync with conflict handling? Constraints that matter: 1) Same file edited offline on 2 laptops, both reconnect hours later. No central lock. What wins, how do you surface conflicts, can you auto-merge for some types? 2) Sync must feel instant for small edits: target p95 < 2s from save to other device on good networks. 3) Files up to 10GB. Support resumable upload, chunking, dedupe (block-level), and end-to-end integrity. 4) Must work across flaky networks, NAT, and clock skew. You cannot trust client timestamps. 5) At-least-once delivery of change events. Idempotency required for apply/ack. 6) Millions of clients polling/streaming. Avoid a thundering herd after an outage or deploy. 7) Rename/move storms and folder deletes. Preserve history and allow restore without corrupting sync state. 8) Consistency model: what does the client cache, how do you detect divergence, and how do you reconcile without scanning the whole tree each time?

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  kelsey (@kelsscarlet) reported 16 minutes ago

  i knowwwww somebody gotta be down to pay $100 for my dropbox folder w 770 files 👀 mommy needs gas to go to portland for a concert tn

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  Teri Radichel #cybersecurity #ai #pentesting (@TeriRadichel) reported 18 minutes ago

  @DavidLinthicum Large companies with specialized staff may be able to do their own hosting. Having done it myself in my own home back in 1999 when yes, people did that, and later in a colocation center. As a security expert, can tell you this is not an ideal choice for most companies. Can’t even begin to explain in this space. There are also performance and scalability issues, management of all the hardware and software, rebooting the servers in the middle of the night when something goes wrong, dealing with outdated hardware and so liability that can be shifted in cloud environments. Capex vs. opex. Yeah not going back there. Even DropBox (article from 2017) still uses AWS to some degree. And for those who want to try to run open stack themselves in this day and age of AI, phew. Capital One tried that. They moved to AWS when a SAN or similar failed and they needed to get up and running fast. The internal cloud was very painful. Not going to defend the breach. Security is hard. As always, throwing off the shackles for some new tech (cloud, AI) is likely not going to work out too well. The only bonus for a company that wants to do this is that there are more tech people out of work. But data center people? Good luck managing all that. Make sure no one has hidden a crypto miner under the data center floor. Yes, that happened.

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  Ryan Zygar (@zygar) reported 19 minutes ago

  I am beginning to have issues with Dropbox hanging and my @NousResearch Hermes agent not being able to file @grok build confirmed. This is a new issue for months no issue now my agent filing and following up is hanging up. What’s everyone recommend for data management Mac Mini. This is new. No changes made by me.

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  Ayaan 🐧 (@twtayaan) reported 23 minutes ago

  Steve Jobs told Drew Houston that Dropbox was a feature, not a product. Dropbox is now worth $8 billion. In 2007 Drew Houston was a 24 year old MIT student who kept forgetting his USB drive. So he built Dropbox. Within a year Steve Jobs called him into Apple HQ. Apple wanted to buy Dropbox and shut it down. Houston said no. Jobs told him directly that Dropbox was a feature, not a product, and that Apple would build it themselves. Apple launched iCloud in 2011 specifically to kill Dropbox. It did not work. Dropbox crossed 100 million users in 2012. Then 200 million. Then 500 million. Apple tried again. iCloud Drive in 2014. Same result. Then the enterprise market shifted. Slack, Notion and Google Drive carved up Dropbox's user base from every direction. Revenue growth slowed. The stock dropped 50% from its IPO price. But Dropbox never died. Today 700 million people have used it. 17 million paying customers. $8 billion valuation. Still independent. Still running. Steve Jobs built a trillion dollar company. He called Dropbox a feature. The feature outlasted him and two attempts by Apple to replace it. Drew Houston never forgot his USB drive again.

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  Jack (@jacklandas) reported 27 minutes ago

  alibaba banning claude code over backdoor fears is the new "no dropbox on company laptops" every big corp security team is about to have a list. cursor approved, claude code not. windsurf maybe. this fragmentation is going to be a real problem for devs who just want to ship

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  prodbysvrge (@prodbysvrge) reported 28 minutes ago

  I wish I knew this starting out Stay ready Every day, make a small list of relationships to nurture Keep Dropbox iCloud open at all Times | Load Directly after cooking up After making beats, write down the labs you need to send Make a list of discord servers to send in

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  i-LevelUP (@CryptoScout24) reported 34 minutes ago

  Popular Services/Messengers That Are Typically NOT (Fully) End-to-End EncryptedThese are the ones affected by scanning under the current EU Chat Control setup which has passed today in the EU: Email services (most standard ones): - Gmail (Google) - Outlook/Hotmail (Microsoft) - Yahoo Mail - iCloud Mail (Apple, standard) - Many others without E2EE enabled - Facebook/Instagram Messenger (standard mode) — Often not fully E2EE unless "Secret Conversations" are turned on - Skype (standard chats) — Microsoft can access content. - Snapchat — Chats and snaps are not E2EE by default (some features have it, but not comprehensively) - Telegram (standard/cloud chats) — Encrypted between device and server, but Telegram holds the keys and can access content. Only "Secret Chats" are protected. - Discord — Messages are not E2EE; the company can moderate/scan - Older/traditional SMS/MMS — Completely unencrypted. - Xbox Live messaging and some gaming platforms. - Cloud storage/file sharing tied to chats (e.g., Dropbox, iCloud, Google Drive in some contexts) — Often scanned Let that sink in ! allegedly to fight against child abuse

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  hiverot (@amusudan) reported 35 minutes ago

  @cowboyshibuya Thanks for the reply! I'm not the most organised, and Ill usually just work on whatever is fun (Or a prerequisite for something that's fun to work on), but I do keep track of ideas, and create todo's and pipelines for things I am sure I want to add or test. For random ideas and todos I use a lot of lists (Dropbox paper, random text files, Notion, Notes app on my phone, Google Docs, etc). And for specific pipelines I use Google Sheets to keep track of what has been done per asset or map or gameplay mechanic (For example my guns spreadsheet has columns for animations, sounds, textures, etc). Big picture design and planning is all on paper in various notebooks and my Calendar app. I don't really track bugs now I just fix whatever pops up when playtesting.

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  Lazar Stojković ⚡️ (@LazarStojkovic) reported 41 minutes ago

  @soltwagner @soltwagner Hi! Bought Cooldock today and loving it so far. A few things: 1. The Dropbox widget doesn't work. (See attached.) 2. The App Switcher widget is broken. It won't switch focus to a clicked app and clicking the Ⓧ removes the app from the switcher for a split second, and then immediately brings it back. 3. A Trello widget (or a few) would be awesome.

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  Mark van Eijk (@markvaneijk) reported 41 minutes ago

  @freekmurze It's the most stable beta in last 15 years. These apps I also use still work: Dropbox, PHP, Conductor. I did not encounter any issues, besides sometimes a lag here and there (regular beta stuff).

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  ray🥤 (@rayontrack) reported 44 minutes ago

  bookmarked, downloaded, screen recorded, emailed, stored in hard drive, uploaded to cloud, archived, backed up, shared via bluetooth, forwarded, copied to usb, saved offline, synced across devices, added to favourites, printed, password protected, compressed into zip, renamed, organised into folders, duplicated, exported, imported, attached to message, sent to recycle bin, restored from backup, converted to pdf, edited, highlighted, annotated, watermarked, uploaded to google drive, uploaded to dropbox, shared through airdrop, linked to notes, tagged, encrypted, burned to cd/dvd, cached, mirrored to another device, uploaded to server, queued for transfer, dragged into archive, pinned, added to reading list, stored on ssd, embedded in document, linked in spreadsheet, previewed, sent to printer queue, recovered from trash, and indexed for search.

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  Boi_Eddi (@3dd1pr1nc3) reported 45 minutes ago

  Your next business idea is probably hiding inside a frustration. Most successful businesses started with: "This is annoying." Uber. Airbnb. Dropbox. Pay attention to problems. Ask: • What wastes my time? • What confuses me? • What do people complain about?

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  Eric S (@Lazy_Bari_Sax) reported 45 minutes ago

  @retrobike_c16 @themiasandrist Why doesn't the mobile version allow you to upload or download files, though? And why is it so damn slow to update? I'm thinking about changing back to Dropbox, despite it's many issues.

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  Shawna Canon (@ShawnaCanon) reported 45 minutes ago

  @smolzoey I had a similar problem with Dropbox. I had it syncing my desktop because I keep a lot of stuff there. I deleted Dropbox because I don't use it. I basically bricked my computer because my desktop no longer existed.

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  Jon (@kpjan99) reported 47 minutes ago

  @WestHerr there and put the key in a Dropbox instead of just checking me in. The little things make a difference. Never had these issues with @NorthtownAuto . They catered to whatever we wanted to do with purchases and service was always on point. Only bought from you because they did

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  David Crysler (@DavidCrysler) reported 50 minutes ago

  An ops manager pushed back on adding a new tool: "We've got stuff on ShareDrive, Dropbox, OneDrive, Slack... you spend more time trying to figure out apps than actually doing work." He's not wrong to be skeptical. Every one of those tools was supposed to fix something. Tool skepticism is almost never about the new tool. It's about the last five. Tools may treat your symptoms but rarely solve the actual problem.

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  bayleigh | HEARD BABYLON 💙 (@eternalwarnings) reported 58 minutes ago

  sorry it's boofed quality my Dropbox account was not working so I had to ss for the time being

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  Bhavyam Arora (@AroraBhavyam) reported 59 minutes ago

  99% startups who applied to yc today will get rejected. here's what the smart ones do next: a no from yc isn't the end. they literally encourages you to reapply and tracks your progress across applications. the founders who get in later treat rejection as round one, not game over. the playbook: "don't wait for feedback" yc doesn't tell you why you got cut at the application stage. so stop self-doubting firstly. the reasons founders get rejected are almost always the same: - no visible progress between "idea" and "application" - not the perfect answer why you're the right team for the problem - vague answers that read as ai slop or unclear thinking reapply. it actually works. - dropbox: drew houston applied solo, got rejected, was told to find a cofounder. he did, reapplied, got in. - reddit: rejected for a completely different first idea. yc liked the founders and told them to come back. they did. the pattern never changes: build, show progress, come back stronger! you can apply again right now yc's decision lets you apply for the next batch. no need to wait months to get another chance. don't put your life on hold other strong programs are still open while you regroup. check the attached tweet below for whole list where you can apply as well. apply in parallel, not "later." the real unlock is traction a reapplication that says "we listened, we built, here are the numbers" beats a first application every time. the 6 months after a no matter more than the no itself. rejection quietly filters out the founders who were never that serious. don't be one. 💀 follow @arorabhavyam for weekly content around founders, startups and AI! 🫡