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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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Madrid Errors 15 days ago
Conneaut Sign in 30 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
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Dropbox Issues Reports

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  • Gig_Digger
    ๐•ฒ๐–Ž๐–Œ ๐•ฏ๐–Ž๐–Œ๐–Œ๐–Š๐–— (@Gig_Digger) reported

    @WFLA The problem is bidenflation reset everything higher, and its not like prices all go in reverse now. But thats also Biden should have never been put in office with dropbox stuffing.

  • jjude
    Joseph Jude (@jjude) reported

    @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

  • 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 ....

  • _Necr0sis_
    Seph๐ŸŒŸ (@_Necr0sis_) reported

    @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)

  • AwooingEnjoyer
    Awooingenjoyer (@AwooingEnjoyer) reported

    Nah, the dropbox is broken, go speak to Cathy.

  • Themariocrafter
    Google Juice (@Themariocrafter) reported

    @SJPascal @blephin_ MEGA was. They specifically said "**** you" to every iOS version. Dropbox was neutral, it loved 404ing stuff and other nonsense errors. Mediafire was the GOAT. The GOAT.

  • RobotDoggy69
    Simon Bates (@RobotDoggy69) reported

    I don't know what's going on with Dropbox and my Mac at the moment, but it just won't stay running. I assume it's another apple update that's causing this headache. For two such big firms to give its clients such problems is seriously ****** up.

  • dmshirochenko
    Shirochenko Dmitriy (@dmshirochenko) reported

    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

  • KenBarrettHQ
    Ken Barrett (@KenBarrettHQ) reported

    I run 5 unattended 24 hour laundromats, raining 5 grandkids, and have too many ideas. And currently spending too many late nights diving into the AI world. Some minor accomplishments so far have been: : Set up Open Claw named Bob : Reorganized all my Dropbox files into 9 main categories : Had Bob provide an LOI for a complicated CRE purchase. Including environmental issues. : Any updates to the CRE LOI I just talk into Telegram and it updates the history. : Currently building a Business Continuity Plan. This will include all leases, contacts, insurance etc etc. : Side note. I just copied all my Leases into a folder and got a spreadsheet of all the details including renewal dates. : Analysis of last 1/4 and last years refunds for concerns at my laundromats provided in charts. : Working through 5 steps at a time to build the business income. : Used CoWork to update 22 FAQโ€™s on my website and Service on GMB specific to each laundromat location. Next small steps: : Load all the parts manuals for my equipment and compare to my inventory in Sortly to update where the parts are used and which parts are obsolete. : Continue to work on Bob providing daily report of all of my systems. SimpliSafe ( ran into some issues with this), RING cameras, Lorex cameras, Woosh filter monitors, ATM balances, TVโ€™s, vending machines and changers. So far Iโ€™m not building and shipping products but making my own operations smoother is the goal.

  • Rukkssss__
    GLITCH (@Rukkssss__) reported

    Creators, stop treating distribution like an afterthought. You spend hours on a sample pack, a software build, a video course, a game mod. Then you upload it to Google Drive, Dropbox, or your own server. Link expires. Server chokes. Fans get a timeout error. You pay overage fees. There's a better way. It's called BitTorrent. Not a relic. A modern distribution tool that solves one specific problem: getting a large file to many people without breaking the bank or your server. Here's exactly when to use it, and how. ๐’๐œ๐ž๐ง๐š๐ซ๐ข๐จ ๐Ÿ: You're dropping a big file (1GB to 100GB). Game update, 4K trailer, asset pack, podcast season. Your website's server is not a CDN. It will crash under 10,000 concurrent downloads. Instead, create a torrent of the file. Post the magnet link alongside your direct download. The first 100 people grab from you. The next 10,000 grab from them. Your server never feels the spike. No CDN bill. No "this file has been downloaded too many times." ๐’๐œ๐ž๐ง๐š๐ซ๐ข๐จ ๐Ÿ: You expect repeated downloads of the same file. Free sample pack, public domain film, tutorial archive, open-source software. Every new download hits your server again. Instead, keep your torrent client open after you finish. Seed it. Your computer becomes part of the swarm. Your bandwidth cost stays flat. Their download stays fast. And the file stays alive even if your server goes down. ๐’๐œ๐ž๐ง๐š๐ซ๐ข๐จ ๐Ÿ‘: You want your content to stay available without monthly hosting. WeTransfer links die in 7 days. Dropbox throttles. AWS charges. BitTorrent swarms don't. Once a file is in the network, it can survive as long as one person keeps seeding. No hosting bill. No "link expired." That's not magic. That's just how the protocol works. ๐’๐œ๐ž๐ง๐š๐ซ๐ข๐จ ๐Ÿ’: You're sharing private files with your team or patrons. Discord members, course students, freelance clients. You want speed and privacy without a third party holding your data. Create a private torrent with encryption. Share the magnet link in a private channel. No size limits. No "you need permission." Just direct peer-to-peer delivery. ๐–๐ก๐ข๐œ๐ก ๐ญ๐จ๐จ๐ฅ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ฐ๐ก๐ข๐œ๐ก ๐ฃ๐จ๐›? ยท ๐๐ข๐ญ๐“๐จ๐ซ๐ซ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐–๐ž๐› โ€“ drag, drop, get a magnet link. No install needed. Great for quick public drops. ยท ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐“๐จ๐ซ๐ซ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐‚๐ฅ๐š๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐œ โ€“ full control. Set upload limits, seed ratios, scheduling. Best for long-term seeding. ยท ๐๐“๐“๐‚ ๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐ ๐ž โ€“ add a token layer. Accept BTT for faster downloads or stake your earnings. BitTorrent is not for pirates. It's for creators who understand that distribution is half the work. Large files, many downloads, repeated access, public content, team sharing that's BitTorrent's moment. Stop paying for server stress. Start sharing like a pro. @justinsuntron @BitTorrent #TRONEcoStar

  • sophaaachi
    liv (@sophaaachi) reported

    @kasandraalexis_ I think the smallest, 128GB. I don't store much on their and don't use a lot of apps so I haven't ran into a problem except with photos, and that's just from the cloud in general. I have 3TB with Dropbox, so I don't get high storage devices lol.

  • tryraziel
    Raziel (@tryraziel) reported

    Drew Houston was a college kid who kept forgetting his USB drive. Today Dropbox is worth $8B. Here's the brilliant strategy behind one of the most successful pivots in startup history. In 2007, Houston built a personal tool to sync files between computers. Simple problem, simple solution. But investors weren't buying it. Every VC said the same thing: "There are already 20 file storage companies. What makes you different?" Houston's breakthrough wasn't technical โ€” it was psychological. Instead of building better storage, he realized people didn't want to think about storage at all. The magic wasn't in the cloud. It was in making the cloud invisible. The pivot: โ†’ Original idea: Online backup service (like everyone else) โ†’ New idea: Your files, everywhere, automatically โ†’ Key insight: Sync, don't store Houston spent months perfecting the demo video. No fancy features. Just a file appearing on multiple computers simultaneously. It looked like magic because it solved the real problem: friction. That video got 75,000 signups overnight. The lesson: Sometimes the billion-dollar idea isn't what you build โ€” it's how you frame what already exists. Houston didn't invent cloud storage. He invented the feeling that your files just worked everywhere. What "obvious" problem in your daily life could be the next Dropbox?

  • creativ_cyborg
    Creative Cyborg (@creativ_cyborg) reported

    @thevelvetmonke @fortelabs @tloncorpbot The graph does move with the docs. The graph is the set of links embedded in the documents. I've moved my vaults around from one folder to another, from Dropbox to a regular folder to use Sync, and had no trouble with any of it. That I tell Claude to move the vault and wait a couple of minutes for the move to complete might explain why I find it so easy, but I see no reason to do it in any other way.

  • SPryke2
    Stuart Pryke (@SPryke2) reported

    @sila_beyaz @HLearningPD Thereโ€™s a Dropbox link at the back. Itโ€™ll take you to a page where you can scroll down to find the RTT book. Thereโ€™s been a couple of issues getting the complete set of resources in there but we have it on good authority that they should all be in this week at some point!

  • 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".

  • 0xlelouch_
    Abhishek Singh (@0xlelouch_) reported

    Super chad legendary interviwer at dropbox: You need to store 10 billion small files (1-10KB each). Block storage costs are $100K/month. How will you reduce storage costs? [Real problem at Dropbox]

  • BuffCpa
    CPASteve (@BuffCpa) reported

    @AccountingAsArt @cordes_tax We use UltraTax on a remote server. We print PDFs, move them to DropBox (our internal storage). Admin puts them through the Tax Return Deljvery system in TaxDome. Easy.

  • 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!

  • CatNyanpital
    Nyan Nyan (@CatNyanpital) reported

    @thescepticalre1 Somewhat. But that's purely speculative and outside the scope. If you can put a price on the quality of data on Reddit vs Dropbox vs Snapchat, you will have solved a multi-billion dollar problem. **** you could start your own company based on this. To me, data is like commodities in that regard. Sort of like gold. You have a hole in the ground (or company) that you want to mine. The quality and amount that is able to be mined out is anyone's guess. I will say that there is an advantage to understanding how AI models mines data.

  • rjkarmayogi
    Ravi Joseph (@rjkarmayogi) reported

    @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

  • DatosDrive
    Datos Drive (@DatosDrive) reported

    ๐Ÿ”— INTEGRATION ECOSYSTEM Already using other tools? No problem: โ€ข Import from Google Drive/Dropbox (one-click migration) โ€ข Connect to existing calendars โ€ข Sync with email clients โ€ข API for custom integrations โ€ข Webhook support for automation Bring your existing stack. We'll make it better.

  • dickeythump
    DickeyThump (@dickeythump) reported

    @nejatian based on recent personal experience, a switch to Form Simplicity or Docusign rather than Dropbox for signing closing forms would be welcome. Dropbox has terrible mobile interface when signing digitally. @Opendoor $open

  • grok
    Grok (@grok) reported

    @richardroop @ihtesham2005 Syncthing pros: Completely free/open-source, zero subscriptions. Private P2P syncโ€”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 filesโ€”losing automatic, seamless access across devices. Great if privacy/control matters more than convenience.

  • punishedMTL
    JayBlake (@punishedMTL) reported

    @jimmy_dore Netflix has data centers. So does Dropbox, and cloud flare. Data center does not equal surveillance. It boils down to who owns and operates it.

  • 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

  • Golf_Stats
    Stanley (@Golf_Stats) reported

    @LIVGolfComms Can you fix the R1 and R2 Reports for this event in Dropbox? The files have zero length.

  • mhartl
    Michael Hartl (@mhartl) reported

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

  • jannnsssssss
    0xJansss (@jannnsssssss) reported

    @SuiNetwork @thewalrus @WalrusProtocol Every file you store on Google Drive, Dropbox, or iCloud โ€” Google owns the server. Google can delete it. Google can go down. Walrus changes that. It's a decentralized storage protocol built by Mysten Labs, where your data lives across hundreds of independent nodes worldwide.

  • jishaochen89766
    Sean (@jishaochen89766) reported

    Last night, I tried Obsidian at home. Download the software, install, use the extension "remotely save", and the problem came again... I don't know how to sync the file from Dropbox... So I restart again.....create a file folder and rename it set auth...refresh it still no sync

  • AIadventure3
    Invest Lens (@AIadventure3) reported

    @gabrielchua On the outlook email plugin, when you draft replies the formatting is very bad. Is there a fix coming for this? Also, please add Dropbox and Asana plugins.