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 (50%)
• Sign in (33%)
• Website Down (17%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Irapuato	Errors	9 hours ago
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

Full Outage Map

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Dropbox Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Chris | Founder Advisor (@automateitup) reported 4 minutes ago

  Problem: I didn't have where to save useful links, because my main pc isn't always on. Solution: Told Hermes on my minipc, which is always on, to save the links which I send to a file in dropbox. Then, I told Hermes from my main pc to make a cronjob to check that file every day at 9 am and save the links in their respective category in the dashboard.

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  Theeevilprincess (@Theeevilprince1) reported 4 minutes ago

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

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  Akshay Shinde (@ConsciousRide) reported 5 minutes ago

  @jahirsheikh8 The server never guesses. When the upload starts, it creates an upload session with a unique ID. The file is split into chunks, and the server records which chunks have already been received. After reconnecting, the client asks, “Which chunks do you already have?” The server responds with the missing offsets, and the client uploads only those. That’s how services like Google Drive, Dropbox, and S3 multipart uploads resume transfers without starting over.

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  Mayank Vora (@aiwithmayank) reported 9 minutes ago

  In 2010, a developer decided your files should live on your computer, not Dropbox’s servers. So he built ownCloud. It gives you your own private cloud using a spare laptop, home server, or cheap VPS. His name is Frank Karlitschek. Install ownCloud on hardware you control, and you get file syncing, sharing, photo backup, calendars, and contacts through one dashboard. Your laptop and phone can access the same files just like Dropbox. The difference is where those files live. They stay on your server, under your rules. The project grew far beyond one developer’s experiment. CERN, universities, research institutions, and large organizations started using it to keep control of sensitive data. Then something unexpected happened. In 2016, Frank left the project he created and started Nextcloud with a new team. But ownCloud did not disappear. The project kept going, its source code remained public, and people continued running it on their own hardware. ownCloud has since gone through forks, an acquisition, and major rebuilds. Yet the original idea survived: Dropbox rents you space on its servers. ownCloud gives you the cloud itself.

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  𝙳𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚞𝚕𝚊 𝙱𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚖𝚙𝚘𝚗𝚜 𝙻𝙻𝙲. (@mynameisFACE) reported 10 minutes ago

  You ever login to your old Dropbox and see pics/vids you don’t even remember? Boyyyy, some mistakes were made 😩

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  Abhishek Singh (@0xlelouch_) reported 12 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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  Hugo Bowne-Anderson (@hugobowne) reported 13 minutes ago

  Every day, people working with coding agents generate piles of threads containing decisions, corrections, failed approaches, and repeatable workflows. Then the session closes. The code survives. Most of the knowledge behind it disappears into chat history. @gregce10 is working on that problem. He previously worked at GitHub, Dropbox, and Google, served as CPO at Pluralsight, and is now co-founder and CPO of @specstoryai. This is a video of Greg at work. Sort of. SpecStory saves sessions from Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini, and other coding agents as Markdown inside the project. Then Lore mines them. Greg demonstrated the full workflow across 516 saved sessions: - Index the sessions locally instead of sending millions of tokens straight to a model - Turn each prompt, response, and next user prompt into an evidence-bearing "beat" - Use the follow-up to detect whether the human accepted, rejected, or corrected the agent's work - Find recurring practices and corroborate them across projects - Present candidate skills as dossiers with citations back to the original sessions - Install nothing without explicit human approval Five hundred and sixteen sessions stop being exhaust and become evidence for how Greg and his team actually build. Lore proposes the reusable practices. Greg decides which ones enter the skill library. Greg showed us all this and more live in our recent episode of *Show Us Your (Agent) Skills*. (video made using seedance 2.0 on @replicate!)

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  MarkyX 🌹 MafiaBlitz.com (@Marky_X_) reported 14 minutes ago

  For the curious, quite a few publishers won't send anything to Canada because our shipping is insanely expensive. It's been such a problem for the past two years that I got a US dropbox, which isn't exactly a free service.

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  HodlReaper (@HodlReaper) reported 16 minutes ago

  HE PAYS $8 A MONTH FOR NETFLIX, DROPBOX, AND AN IT DEPARTMENT THAT NEVER SLEEPS. One server. One guy. Zero subscriptions. He runs Debian. Free. No license, no monthly fee. Every app lives in its own Docker container. Like apps on a phone. One breaks, the rest keep running. Claude Code runs the whole thing. It writes scripts. It watches the other apps. At 2 AM, when something crashes, it fixes it before he wakes up. He built his own IT department. It doesn't sleep. It doesn't ask for a raise. Plex replaces Netflix. Every DVD and show he owns streams straight to his family. $15 a month, gone. AdGuard kills ads before they hit the Wi-Fi. WebDAV replaces Dropbox, Google Drive, iCloud. Calibre Web holds his entire book library. He mirrored all of Wikipedia. In case the internet ever goes down. He's also building an app on the same server, with its own dashboard tracking rollout errors before they become real problems. Infrastructure scripts watch everything else. Restart what dies. Upgrade what's outdated. He doesn't touch it. Total cost: $8 a month in electricity. Netflix alone costs more than that.

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  Oliver Prompts (@oliviscusAI) reported 18 minutes ago

  you pay google, dropbox, and apple $10+/month to store your files on their servers, where they can read them. and dropbox already got breached in 2024. there's a tool that syncs your files directly between your own devices. no cloud, no server, no middleman. it's called syncthing. → real-time sync between any number of devices, peer-to-peer → files go straight between your devices, never touching a third-party server → tls encryption with perfect forward secrecy on every connection → works over lan and internet, no port forwarding needed → file versioning, roll back anything you changed or deleted there is no syncthing server. no syncthing cloud. no company storing your data. the protocol is open, and there's nothing between your devices except an encrypted tunnel. dropbox plus is $144/year. google one 2tb is $120/year. syncthing is $0, unlimited devices, unlimited storage, forever. battle-tested since 2013. run by a swedish non-profit. 100% free. open source.

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  𝗦𝗵𝘆𝗻𝗲 (@YuhItsShyne) reported 20 minutes ago

  @zenithfl4re lots of people also use bunkr or gofile if dropbox is giving you trouble and you dont feel like using google drive!

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  Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz) reported 21 minutes ago

  Well this is ironic: Ironic: been recommending a resume service built by an ex-Dropbox eng for years (a side project, but a good one.) Dev pivoted to building an AI Engineer - fine! But now resume site is down. Customers billed. Support nonexistent. AI made it... a lot worse!

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  Arthur "lynch mob" van Pelt 🔥 ∞/21M ⚡ (@Arthur_van_Pelt) reported 23 minutes ago

  @laz1m0v @adam3us You want a multifunctional database. Go try BSV or Microsoft SQL Server or Arweave. They have what you want. Bitcoin is money. Not a Pepe Dropbox. Go take your Pepes elsewhere, please. Then we wouldn't even need filters if everyone behaved in the spirit of Cash instead of Pepe.

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  JMT (@JoakimThomsen) reported 27 minutes ago

  @shadcn Where is that post with the guy who thought Dropbox couldn’t make it because he just set up an FTP server on his home rack and had his files there? *you are in a bubble my friend*

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  The Tech Buzz (@tbuzzdaily) reported 29 minutes ago

  $15M raised: Meticulous grew ARR 5x in a year testing code nobody has time to review manually anymore Chemistry led the Series A, joined by Menlo Ventures, Lachy Groom, and GitHub's former CEO Jason Warner. Founders Gabriel and Quentin Spencer-Harper, brothers with backgrounds at Dropbox and Palantir, built the company around a problem AI coding tools created faster than they solved: code is now written faster than humans can review it. The product records real user and developer sessions during development, then uses AI to auto-generate and maintain end-to-end visual regression tests based on actual observed usage, updating automatically as the code changes. Customers include Notion, ElevenLabs, Dropbox, and Wiz, a list that skews toward companies shipping fast enough to need this. Rainforest QA and Autify compete in AI-assisted testing broadly, but most rely on hand-written test cases rather than tests derived from real session data. The tradeoff Meticulous accepts is that session-derived tests can still miss rare edge cases nobody happened to trigger, which is why the company is expanding from frontend into backend and performance testing next. A 5x ARR jump in a year says enough teams have hit the same wall: AI writes code faster than any QA team can keep up with by hand.

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  Alvin (@Alvin1492840) reported 29 minutes ago

  Kill the startup apps that have been draining your battery since day one. She opened System Settings → General → Login Items & Extensions. 14 apps were set to launch automatically every time he turned on his Mac. Spotify. Zoom. Adobe Creative Cloud. Google Drive. Microsoft Teams. OneDrive. Dropbox. A VPN he used once. A screenshot tool he forgot about. A calendar widget. And 4 more he didn't recognize. Every one of them was running in the background 24/7 consuming RAM, CPU cycles, and battery life whether he was using them or not. She said: "You turn on your Mac and within 30 seconds, 14 apps are fighting for resources before you've even opened your first document. Your fan spins up because your CPU is processing a traffic jam of apps you're not using. Your battery dies by 2pm because half your power is going to background processes you don't see." She removed 11 of the 14. Kept only the ones he actually needed at startup. The Mac booted in half the time. The fan stayed quiet. The battery lasted 3 extra hours. She said: "Check this list right now. If you see apps you don't use daily, remove them. They've been silently eating your Mac alive since the day you installed them."

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  Denver Rayburn (@DenverRayburn) reported 35 minutes ago

  Where do the find he people the write these articles?? This will go down like the rsync vs Dropbox comment on hacker news.

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  Jack (@jackcoder0) reported 36 minutes ago

  1. Kill the Login Items the apps launching before you even sit down. Every time you log in, your Mac quietly launches 10-25 apps in the background. Spotify. Slack. Zoom. Google Drive. Dropbox. Creative Cloud. OneDrive. Each one consumes CPU and memory before you've opened a single window. System Settings → General → Login Items & Extensions. Review the list. Remove everything you don't need the instant you log in. You can always open them manually when you actually need them. His Mac had 19 login items. He needed 3. He removed 16. Boot time dropped from 2 minutes to 18 seconds. The first few minutes of every session — that sluggish, unresponsive window where nothing works gone.

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  joshpuckett (@joshpuckett) reported 38 minutes ago

  @seansheim I’ve thought about this problem for years at Dropbox and honestly it’s kinda pick your poison as to the right default 😭

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  Hugo Bowne-Anderson (@hugobowne) reported 39 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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  Ricky Shah (@RickyShahatty) reported 39 minutes ago

  @Claudio_PNW @tax_birdie @AMandoSch Miller wanted the Dropbox released publicly. It is entirely up to the attorney to screen it. A bad client should make an attorney double down their efforts.

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  Loster (@Loster) reported 39 minutes ago

  @Z3R0Gravitas Thinking that if I do trials with people I'd give them exactly that. Something similar to a Dropbox folder for any health docs they want sync'd to the agent's server. I think that would take up how much it could help a notch (need to think a lot about confidentiality).

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  JennX (@JennX0608) reported 41 minutes ago

  More trouble for Max Miller. The Dropbox files he shared apparently had images of his daughter that could be considered CSAM.

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  Waldemar Santos (@wsantos99) reported 45 minutes ago

  @DropboxSupport Hello, I have already sent two emails regarding a problem I’m having with my account, but I haven’t received any response. How can I get assistance with this issue? Thank you.

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  Startup Archive (@StartupArchive_) reported 47 minutes ago

  Drew Houston on the growth hacks Dropbox used to acquire millions of users Dropbox founder Drew Houston reflects the distribution challenge most startups face in the early days: “You can buy all the AdWords in the world but if nobody’s searching for what you’re making, you have a problem.” Drew eventually landed on a two-step solution to solve Dropbox’s cold start problem. Step 1: make a product that people really love to use. “Good engineering and good design are part of it, but one of the ways I think about it is maximizing the probability that your customer ends up with a solved problem. That’s why Craigslist — which was started in the 1990s and doesn’t appear to have been updated since the 1990s — is by far the most successful business of its kind. You show up at Craigslist and you leave with your concert tickets or your casual encounter or whatever you’re looking for. Even though the design isn’t that great and it isn’t that hard of an engineering problem, it was unbelievably successful . . . [Distribution] starts with a great product and all of the marketing or tricks in the world won’t help you push a rock uphill.” Step 2: give people tools to spread the word “Two things drove the vast majority of our signups today. The first was we created this incentive-referral program where if I tell you about Dropbox you get some extra storage and I get some extra storage, which gave us this kind of currency to work with and people were just doing it for its own sake. People weren’t even using the extra space. They were just referring their friends because they got points. We’d now call it a gamification mechanic, even though I’m not sure that word was even around back then.” Drew continues: “The other thing we did was create this idea of shared folders where if I’m working on a shared project at work or if I want to share photos with my family, then all these new users are brought into the fold just by using the product . . . Now there’s whole body of art and science on how to do that, how consumer internet companies grow, and how viral growth works, but these things were instrumental to how we got started.” Source: @ECorner (Jun 2012)

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  Mike Nolan - ⌬CatalyticComics⌬ (@CatalyticComics) reported 47 minutes ago

  As a developer I wanted to build something that addresses every issue I've run in to as a reader. These are my top ones: - Campaigner emails a Dropbox link and maybe you miss it - DRM/server requirements that amount to "you don't really own it" - No above-board way to share

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  bayleigh | HEARD BABYLON 💙 (@eternalwarnings) reported 50 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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  Om Modi (@ocmodi21) reported 52 minutes ago

  When people ask why companies like Uber, Twitch, Dropbox, and many startups use Go for backend services... The answer isn't just performance. Go was designed to solve many of the problems microservices introduce. Let's break it down. 🧵

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  Fernando (@Ferjsjdh) reported 56 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.

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  ESCHA (๑ˊ͈ ^ˋ͈) (@eschadiol) reported 58 minutes ago

  @joshpuckett i worked on an app called roll back then, dropbox, path, and facebook made offers, then fb made memories, path closed down, and carousel was deprecated, would have been so sick to cross paths at that time