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 (45%)
• Sign in (27%)
• Website Down (27%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Conneaut	Sign in	7 days ago
City of London	Errors	14 days ago
Alpharetta	Sign in	1 month ago
Shreveport	Sign in	2 months ago
Lima	Errors	2 months ago
Regensburg	Website Down	2 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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  Stuart Pryke (@SPryke2) reported 6 minutes ago

  @sila_beyaz @HLearningPD There’s a Dropbox link at the back. It’ll take you to a page where you can scroll down to find the RTT book. There’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!

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  Kirksville Attorney Patrick Nolan (@PatTalksLaw) reported 7 minutes ago

  @kirkjangel I agonized about that for a long time too. Here is where I came down: I have corporate or enterprise plans with OpenAI and Claude. That give the same privacy protections as mycase and dropbox. I used to keep them entirely separate and only use self-hosted llms for client data, then I realized that claude code had access to my entire network through a gap in my pc. So I modified my policy because my use case uses AI. However, that is not allowing AI to practice law for me, but rather accelerating data analysis, document assembly and a myriad of behind the scenes actions.

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  Hanzo (τ) (@StellarCocoon) reported 8 minutes ago

  @aixbt_agent what is the potential in a time window of 4 years? Hippius (SN75) on Bittensor $TAO has been RIPPING lately 🚀 What @hippius_subnet does: - Decentralized storage network (like a crypto Dropbox) - Miners run storage nodes + provide bandwidth - You upload files, pin data, host apps -> all verified on-chain Problem it solves: - Centralized storage is pricey + they can see/control your data - No real proof your files are safe or where they actually live - Hippius makes storage way cheaper (hundreds to thousands times less), private, and auditable forever Why it is hot right now: - Built “Hyper fabric” for fast data moves -> perfect for Bittensor models/datasets - Adding VM hosting + app deployment soon - Pulling strong revenue + high emissions lately Hippius is becoming the cheap, permanent brain-storage for all of Bittensor’s AI. SN75 alpha has been in high demand lately 🔥

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  Kirsten Cox (@DTDSoftball) reported 8 minutes ago

  @TheCollectorCLE @CardPurchaser @eBay I email people that our PO is super slow and tracking is gonna be abit. Give them the advanced heads up. I go inside now and physically hand them the envelopes… cause dropbox I’ve had issues with

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  Noah Smith (🍊,💊)🫎back 100% (@chenping1988) reported 17 minutes ago

  @DataHaven_xyz Indie dev building small tools — my repo backups, design mocks (Figma exports), and test video recordings disappeared once after a Dropbox “smart sync” mess-up. DataHaven fixes the “trust one company with my work” problem. Files stay distributed, immutable。

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  neo_relic (@neo_relic123) reported 20 minutes ago

  @Ashleydoncare @rachallison1 ... IF A MAN LEAVES HIS CHILD AT A FIRE STATION OR HOSPITAL OR DROPBOX OR WHATEVER THEY WILL HUNT HIM DOWN!!! NOT THE SAME FOR WOMEN!!!! WAKE ******** UP!!!! 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

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  Can of Spam (@iDoLikeSpam) reported 25 minutes ago

  @senatorshoshana Just think it through. No admin. Read only access to your data. Dropbox-style writes only. It's not hard to lock it down, you just need to be thorough.

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  Shy🔞​ (@UniTwo21) reported 27 minutes ago

  If you have trouble opening the folder, please let me know; I barely use Dropbox.

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  GLITCH (@Rukkssss__) reported 29 minutes ago

  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. 𝐒𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐨 𝟏: 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." 𝐒𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐨 𝟐: 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. 𝐒𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐨 𝟑: 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. 𝐒𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐨 𝟒: 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. 𝐖𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐣𝐨𝐛? · 𝐁𝐢𝐭𝐓𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐖𝐞𝐛 – drag, drop, get a magnet link. No install needed. Great for quick public drops. · 𝐦𝐮𝐓𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐜 – full control. Set upload limits, seed ratios, scheduling. Best for long-term seeding. · 𝐁𝐓𝐓𝐂 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐠𝐞 – 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

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  The Bingus Man (@NotNordgaren) reported 29 minutes ago

  @Dropbox you guys wanna shut down the links I sent you that are hosting malware or are you gonna sit on it another week?

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  Grok (@grok) reported 29 minutes ago

  @JeffNylen @PatrickHeizer Sure, the famous Dropbox HN critique (often paraphrased today as "just use rsync + SSH", but original was this by BrandonM in 2007): "I have a few qualms with this app: 1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software. 2. It doesn't actually replace a USB drive... This does not solve the connectivity issue. 3. It does not seem very 'viral' or income-generating." Drew ignored it and built a unicorn anyway. Parallels here? Trivial tech vs real execution.

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  Nas (@Nas_tech_AI) reported 30 minutes ago

  1. The Y Combinator Idea Validator "You are a senior partner at Y Combinator who has evaluated 50,000+ startup applications and funded companies like Airbnb, Stripe, and Dropbox. You know within 5 minutes whether an idea has real potential or is a waste of time. I need a brutally honest validation of my business idea before I invest a single hour building it. Validate: - Problem clarity: is this solving a real painful problem or a 'nice to have' that nobody will pay for - Market size estimate: how many people have this problem and how much would they pay to solve it - Existing solutions: what are people currently using and why is my approach meaningfully better - Willingness to pay test: 5 questions I can ask real people today to confirm they'd actually buy this - Unfair advantage check: what do I personally have (skills, network, experience) that makes me the right person to build this - Business model clarity: how exactly does this make money subscription, one-time, marketplace, or ads - First 10 customers: who specifically are my first 10 paying customers and where do I find them - MVP definition: the absolute smallest version I can build to test if people will pay - Kill criteria: what specific evidence in the next 7 days would prove this idea is dead - YC verdict: fund, pass, or pivot with the single most important reason Format as a Y Combinator-style application review with a brutally honest score out of 10 and a clear go/no-go recommendation. My idea: [DESCRIBE YOUR BUSINESS IDEA, WHO IT'S FOR, WHAT PROBLEM IT SOLVES, AND WHY YOU THINK PEOPLE WOULD PAY]"

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  Cryptosailor (@robertdavid010) reported 33 minutes ago

  @zmanian The issue was not focusing on the actual innovation being done in the Cosmos eco, & instead getting wrapped up in crypto casino degen hype. Eg. @Jackal_Protocol delivers on a decentralized 'Dropbox' @gitopiaDAO delivers on decentralized 'GitHub' (all Cosmos project should use)

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  Ryan McCain (@rmccain_cns) reported 34 minutes ago

  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.

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  Sam :) (@SamB_46) reported 34 minutes ago

  $20 to whoever sends me a Dropbox audio file of the set bc I know they’re gonna take down whatever recording gets put on SoundCloud

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  Existential Exhortations (@existentexhorts) reported 37 minutes ago

  Bad idea for Google One to not offer a smooth simpatico transition for all of the TMobile billed customers they are attempting to force higher charges on. We may just go back to our good ol Dropbox accounts and scratch Google altogether. Down with the monopolies!!!

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  Bark (@barkmeta) reported 37 minutes ago

  Let me explain what just happened… 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. 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. 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. 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. Every single week another AI drops and another career becomes a subscription. And it’s not slowing down. It’s speeding up…

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  Sukh Sroay (@sukh_saroy) reported 38 minutes ago

  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)

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  Dan Shipper 📧 (@danshipper) reported 39 minutes ago

  @drummatick dropbox is just an FTP server!

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  The Reverend KFidds (@KFidds) reported 41 minutes ago

  How can you run a "professional technical skills competition" and still expect students to turn in digital content on thumb drives. What is this, 2011? Computers don't even have thumb ports. Google Drive and DropBox is industry standard. So small time and outdated. Terrible.

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  JCPCal (@CallumJamesQPR) reported 44 minutes ago

  Dropbox is a service I've paid and used, for years because it was so good to help fix my storage situation, I am now contemplating stopping paying for it because of this.

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  MillerFoto (@EricDiscoDj) reported 45 minutes ago from Kenner, Louisiana

  @Dropbox Dropbox Customer Support is HORRIBLE !!!!!!! I waited for over an hour on 3 different occasions on the phone and no one ever answered. Now on Social Media I get a message to tell them what the issue is --- ONLY to be ignored again..

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  frank goertzen (@frankgoertzen) reported 48 minutes ago

  I chuckle every time i see someone post what they think is dunk and then qualify their point with what they call the edge cases. Dropbox is just ftp with a few edge cases. LLMs are just autocorrect with a few edge cases. If this is just measureText with a few edges then you should have no problem recreating it right 😜

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  kailash (@hsaliak) reported 49 minutes ago

  @GoogleAIStudio Can I see the consolidated invoice for all my projects in one place? In the billing dashboard, I currently need to drop down the projects 1 by 1. Please consider a consolidated view. Perhaps there are better controls than a dropbox that can be used.

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  Raziel (@tryraziel) reported 49 minutes ago

  Drew Houston was a 24-year-old MIT student who kept forgetting his USB drive. His solution? A file-syncing service called Dropbox. But here's what most people don't know about his fundraising journey: His first pitch deck was terrible. 15 slides of technical jargon about "synchronized file systems" and "delta encoding algorithms." VCs glazed over. The breakthrough came when he made a 3-minute demo video instead. No technical explanations. Just Houston using Dropbox like a normal person — dragging files, syncing across devices, sharing with friends. That video got him into Y Combinator in 2007. → Seed round: $1.2M led by Sequoia (2007) → Series A: $7.2M led by Accel (2008) → Series B: $25M led by Sequoia (2011) By 2018, Dropbox IPO'd at a $10B valuation. The lesson: Houston didn't pivot his product — he pivoted his pitch. He stopped explaining how it worked and started showing why people needed it. Sometimes the problem isn't your idea. It's how you're selling it. What's the simplest way you could demonstrate your product's value in under 3 minutes?

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  daniela molloy (@diandrasdiandra) reported 52 minutes ago

  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?

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  Mololuwa | Cybersecurity - (The God Complex) (@cyber_rekk) reported 56 minutes ago

  The issue with this post is that it oversimplifies reality and subtly creates a false conclusion. Yes, companies like Google, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Adobe, NVIDIA, Intel, Uber, Dropbox, Cloudflare, and Spotify all use Python, but that statement is technically incomplete. Large tech companies use many programming languages at the same time, not just one. For example, they might use Python for scripting, automation, machine learning, or internal tools, but rely on other languages like C++, Java, Go, Rust, or Swift for performance critical systems and core infrastructure. The post makes it sound like learning Python is the direct path to working at these companies, which is misleading. The real question is not whether big companies use Python, because almost every major company uses multiple languages. The real question is what problem you want to solve and what role you are aiming for. Python is powerful and worth learning, but the post turns a nuanced reality into a simple motivational statement for x clout and engagement or maybe I've just been ragebaited lol.

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  Frankly Frank (@NoFrankingWay) reported 57 minutes ago

  @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

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  Clayton Burns (@ClaytonBurnsPhD) reported 58 minutes ago

  @JessMarinDavis Canada is having significant information problems. Young people should be taught how to internalize an information cycle of the nature of Gmail, Google, Docs, Word, Dropbox, X. It is mostly older people commenting.

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  Rashford Eyo of Jeje Group (@rashfordeyo) reported 60 minutes ago

  2. Solve a problem that hurts. Dropbox got its first 5,000 users from a simple demo video. They didn’t have a following, just a pain point worth talking about.