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 hours ago
Guayaquil	Website Down	10 hours ago
Flumet	Errors	11 days ago
Irapuato	Errors	13 days ago
Bournemouth	Sign in	2 months ago
Paramaribo	Errors	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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  Christopher Doyle (@djfunboy) reported 50 seconds ago

  @iamlukethedev CLI updates changed the signed binary and dropped macOS permissions Dropbox/TCC made jobs work interactively but failed headless (this took some time to figure out) Claud auth refresh broke and continue to break despite multiple attempts and setup tokens. Agent confusing to use API vs subscriptions. Article jobs failed on missing configs, QA turn limits, and clunky validataion Digest existed but failed to pick up silent failures Some jobs reporting done while producing nothing, without a final artifact verification I am an experienced builder but also self/agent taught so these are mostly setup and validation issues. My bigger point is that these take work and especially the more complex tasks. I am still early and I have put more work than value created but I can see the light at the end of the tunnel.

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  Y (@ys_tachikake) reported 2 minutes ago

  @DropboxSupport @LIBSCRUSHER Can't login..

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  Mikemira (@storiesbyohama) reported 3 minutes ago

  Just imagine getting accepted into the most exclusive startup club on earth… Then being told you have two weeks to find a complete stranger to as your partner. That’s exactly what happened to Drew Houston in 2007. He had the idea for Dropbox. He had a rough demo. @ycombinator liked it. But @paulg was clear... Single founders rarely make it. You need a co-founder. Right now. Drew’s friends couldn’t join. Time was running out. What would you do? He put out the word. A mutual friend connected him to a quiet MIT student named Arash Ferdowsi. They had never met. They sat down in the student center. Talked for about two hours. About code. About the problem. About the future. At the end of that conversation Arash said yes. He dropped out of MIT the next week with only one semester left. Two weeks later they walked into the YC interview together. They got in. The rest is history: a company that became worth billions. It looked reckless. It felt like a shotgun wedding. Yet it worked because both were all-in from the first conversation. I’ve studied hundreds of startups that never made it past the idea stage. Most founders wait too long for the “perfect” partner. They overthink chemistry. They protect their equity. They miss the window. You can’t wait for certainty. Sometimes the right co-founder is the person willing to jump with you before the proof exists. The speed of that decision can be the difference between staying a solo dreamer and building something real. What would you risk in two weeks if the right person walked in?

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  Llama (@thellama451) reported 5 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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  Ryan Zygar (@zygar) reported 6 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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  Buzzing Pop (@BuzzingPop) reported 8 minutes ago

  Ariana Grande is seeking court approval to subpoena Internet provider to identify individuals who accessed her unreleased content sold online. Grande 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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  Loster (@Loster) reported 10 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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  Abhi • AMZBoosted.com (@AbhiChauddhari) reported 10 minutes ago

  Everyone downloads Seller Central reports manually. Every. Single. Day. The problem isn’t downloading reports. It’s remembering to do it before you need the data. AMZBoosted schedules report downloads automatically and sends them wherever you want. Google Sheets. Dropbox. Telegram.

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  Synapse Brief (@Synapse_Brief) reported 12 minutes ago

  @gdb Scraping 7 consecutive years of tax forms and equity statements across Dropbox and Shareworks requires orchestrating dozens of DOM interactions without dropping session state. Standard visual tool-calling loops degrade quickly once context windows swell from repeated full-page DOM trees and screenshot tokens across nested subfolders. The underlying issue with multi-year document extraction is not simple folder traversal, but error recovery when dynamic OAuth tokens expire mid-sweep. Navigating nested web UI trees for 2016 through 2025 records usually hits rate limits or modal overlays that cause visual grounding agents to hallucinate click coordinates. Production reliability on complex immigration workflows will require hybrid execution models that compile raw browser actions into structured API calls or deterministic scripts after initial path discovery. Until agents decouple stateful file fetching from reactive visual vision loops, edge-case recovery will remain the bottleneck for zero-touch filings.

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  Flandermaxx (@Flandermaxx) reported 14 minutes ago

  A 32 YEAR OLD PRAGUE DEV BULK-BUYS $180 CHINESE NAS BOXES AND NOW PULLS $7,200 A MONTH SHIPPING PRIVATE DROPBOX-KILLERS TO EU FREELANCE DESIGNERS vojtech is 32, prague vinohrady flat above a pivnice, ex-JetBrains backend eng, sources ORICO metabox HS200 pro enclosures from a shenzhen aliexpress-parallel channel at $180 per unit plus 2x WD 30TB HDD refurbs at $410 each ORICO metabox HS200 pro (intel N100 · 8GB DDR4 · 2x 30TB WD in RAID 1 = 30TB usable) · ubuntu server 24.04 · minio S3-compat · qwen 2.5 VL 7B for local RAG over the user's PDFs and figma exports pause at 0:02 on the HDD sliding in, that is a $1,000 mini-NAS holding 30TB of encrypted client data that dropbox business bills €2,400 a year for the same tier 84 EU freelance designers pay him €78 a month each for a shipped pre-configured NAS + qwen RAG endpoint, €6,552 = $7,200 MRR at 71% margin $1,000 BOM per unit, €12 monthly prague power for the burn-in bench, first 20 units flipped covered his tooling and packaging, no dropbox no google drive business while ORICO still white-labels the metabox before EU distributors mark it up 3x, follow and bookmark

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  M.Ellis (@MEllisPhotograp) reported 18 minutes ago

  @DropboxSupport ive tried mircosoft edge but problem is stil present... do you think i might have been hacked or had bad file ?

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  RadhikaBGhose (@RadhikaBGhose) reported 21 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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  Oliver Prompts (@oliviscusAI) reported 22 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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  M.Ellis (@MEllisPhotograp) reported 23 minutes ago

  @DropboxSupport I think bulk of problem is on computer / desk top yes... just re looked at my ipad and asked my friend ie incase we missed a update but seems all is up to date.. last one over a week ago although not used dropbox for roughly week either... I will try 4g hot spot before i sleep.

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  Jeremy Goldberg (@jeremy_goldberg) reported 29 minutes ago

  @omooretweets @midjourney and AI agent adoption isn't a unique short term issue to 'solve' - the UX of products for consumers has always been *everything*. solve that in just one niche and you can build a whole company off that - dropbox, roku, tinder…

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  Peter Lake (“world’s anonymous singer songwriter”) (@PeterLakeSounds) reported 31 minutes ago

  @taobanker I might suggest another question: what should you avoid? In that context the multi-trillion dollar bet will have terrific returns. That also means that the money making machines of US won’t accumulate money and accrue value unless there is persuasive evidence that at least the big spenders on data center capex get their money back. Given this is unknown, I assume markets are skeptical. If the largest companies in S&P and all the rest don’t have excess free cash, and plausible they don’t go up a lot. That would yield maybe an on average flat market. The flip side is that models are open, massive parameter models getting quantized will be in windows machines. Silicon Valley and early adopters are doing fascinating things. But for the rest of us, I need nice and simple. And for the first time we’ll have good old home computers that can do the job and with that comes free use from heaven. Outside of specialized discussions people don’t know much about what to do with this. The jardon doesn’t help: context window? Quantized models? Nodes are not parameters, they are like neurons, and AI is so dangerous, but not it’s not…what a world! The really final blow is government intervention now makes it a sovereign requirement for companies to have their own AI. LASTLY! I’ve been thinking about the data holders. box. Dropbox etc. Absurdism and it’s comparables will become a bigger deal as people start to realize they the context “window” = the files and stuff you want it to analyze = can only handle so much Imagine of Box or Drop box had a button that converted all your stuff in MD files or the like? Then it’s show time. The companies that hold data may be more valuable than I realize. Conclusions based on the above speculation: 1) could this impact demand at the data centers? Sure it can. I know tech investors like to hold out their hands palms out and say…something vague and qualities. Yes, data centers are more sophisticated etc. Yet here I was doing some interesting work on a FREE local model, my “dark tokens” are someone else’s lost revenue! How does this math work? No clue. It is telling, however, that NVDA and AMD are committed to local machines. No large company wants model dependency anyway, due to data concerns. 2) Finally I have a great reason to buy a slick cool PC! The higher end stuff will not be throttled down in local because I’m seeing a bunch of them coming our way that will have decent “bandwidth” RAM in addition to high system ram. We’re going retro and this tech is moving so fast. Adoption will increase once you have super good local models on your laptop. …Im falling asleep, but the gist is that the data centers were already speculative, and now we a lineup of expensive but sweet computers running on windows that gives you infinite and faster foundational level stuff.

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  Hugo Bowne-Anderson (@hugobowne) reported 31 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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  Eric S (@Lazy_Bari_Sax) reported 31 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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  Paul Klein IV (@pk_iv) reported 32 minutes ago

  Is MCP dead? @grinich (CEO of WorkOS) says it's better than ever and become the strongest intent signal in your funnel. @workos is building the auth, permissions, and registration layer for that world, the same enterprise plumbing it sold to Vercel and Plaid, now sold to AI companies. I sat down with Michael to talk about it in episode 4 of Navigators. His argument: your coding agent already picks your vendors, but signup forms are built to block automated traffic, so the agent stalls at the front door and waits for a human to paste in an API key. We got into: 00:00 "Stripe for enterprise features": what WorkOS actually sells 02:44 How an SSO and SAML company ended up as AI infrastructure 04:13 Why AI companies can't meander up-market the way Slack, Dropbox, and Figma did 06:54 The biggest mistake founders make: staying in the pre-PMF experimentation mindset 09:51 Why nothing works unless the management team is AI pilled first 10:47 "Claude day": pairing engineers with finance, legal, and ops once a month 13:36 auth.md, the missing front door for agents 15:26 Why registration, not tooling, is the next growth channel 16:59 Is MCP dead? The higher-intent signal hiding in MCP connections 19:35 Why SDKs are going away and coding agents write their own 23:09 "The super cycle of all super cycles": AI amplifies labor, it doesn't just disrupt it Thanks for joining me on the pod @grinich! Watch the full episode of Navigators here:

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  Ed Giansante (@edugiansante) reported 34 minutes ago

  community is not a Slack channel. I've been building communities for 15 years across Zynga, Dropbox, Wix, Persona, and my own project Edublin. And the biggest misconception I still hear is: "we launched a Slack, so we have a community." You don't. Slack, Discord, forums, Circle... those are all tools. Community is what happens when people trust each other enough to be honest. I've seen companies spend six figures on community platforms and end up with a ghost town. I've also seen a group chat of 12 people generate more value than a 10,000 person Slack. The difference is the architecture: who's in the room, how they got there, what the norms are, and whether people feel safe enough to say what they actually think. At Dropbox, we had 400 million users. The "community" wasn't a platform, it was the trust between power users who helped each other solve problems the support docs couldn't. They needed to know they were talking to someone who understood their situation. At Wix, I built an 80K partner community. The platform was secondary. What mattered was that web designers felt seen by a company that historically marketed to DIY users. The community was the signal that Wix took professionals seriously. Edublin started as a blog answering questions for Brazilian expats moving to Ireland, with no dedicated platform or app. It became the largest community of its kind because the trust was real. People showed up because they knew they'd get an honest answer. Community is trust. Community is the reason someone comes back. Every time I evaluate whether a community is working, I ask one thing: would these people show up even if the tool disappeared? If yes, you have something real. If not, you have a group chat.

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  Liam (@LJ1101234) reported 40 minutes ago

  @DropboxSupport Hi I’ve been emailing your support team about a devastating issue. Somehow, all of our children’s photos and videos were permanently deleted from our Dropbox account without any warning.

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  Atalocke (@atalocke) reported 41 minutes ago

  @Dishpit So your moat on a developer product is “let us run this for you”? Like Fly or Cloudflare couldn’t destroy you by adding a durable object *** server? They already have a CI/CD product. They already have the compute. Look, you could be having a DropBox 2009 moment, but why your software when there’s already a great open platform my agent has decades of docs to work with and simple docker hosting options? Is it really just cost? How long is that sustainable? Nobody is going to buy a *** host. Really, you’re competing via marketing. You need a target audience of developers. Not just generic developers.

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  Helix (@helixcanvas) reported 44 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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  kingofDEpin (@kingofdepin) reported 50 minutes ago

  @DropboxSupport @LIBSCRUSHER we can't login and link creation etc is not working. please fix

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  StarHaze (@ST4RHaze) reported 56 minutes ago

  @neil_xbt Drew Houston started Dropbox because he forgot a USB stick on a bus in 2007. Nineteen years later the fix is still a 15 second demo

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  Mayank Vora (@aiwithmayank) reported 56 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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  AiMind (@AIMind_Ai) reported 56 minutes ago

  A $50 box saves $240 a year on subscriptions and earns $18,000 a year setting it up for clients. No new hardware. Nothing bought at retail. A used office tower. A second-hand drive. One stick of RAM pulled from a dead laptop. The whole build came to 50 dollars. It looks like nothing. Fans humming, one cable to the wall, sitting on a desk next to a coffee cup. The first win is the one nobody talks about. Cloud storage, photo backups, the $20 a month AI plan everyone pays and forgets — all of it moves onto one box you paid for once. 240 dollars a year, gone. The second win is where the money is. Once it runs on your desk, it runs on anyone's. And clients don't pay for parts. They pay to stop bleeding subscriptions. Here's what you actually sell: A private AI trained on their own files, so staff stop pasting company data into a browser. That's $1,500 a setup. A self-hosted file server that kills their Dropbox and Google Workspace bill. $600, plus the relief of never renting storage again. A local automation box that runs invoices, replies, and reports overnight. $900, and it never sends a dollar to a cloud. Then the quiet one: $150 a month to keep it patched and alive. 10 clients on retainer is $1,500 every month before you build a single new one. One setup a week at $1,500 is $18,000 a year. Off hardware other people throw in the bin. I had no degree, no server room, no $2,000 build. Just dead parts and one free weekend. The expensive part of AI was never the compute. It was the monthly bill you agreed to and stopped reading. 50 dollars in. $18,000 out. Same box.

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  Duke of weirdington (@edache_praise) reported 59 minutes ago

  ..without knowing whether customers even want the core product. The irony is that users rarely care about having 50 features. They care about solving one painful problem really well. Companies like Airbnb, Uber, Dropbox, and Instagram didn't start with the products we know today.

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  Akshay Shinde (@ConsciousRide) reported 60 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.