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 (75%)
• Website Down (25%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Nottingham	Errors	26 days ago
Guayaquil	Website Down	26 days ago
Flumet	Errors	1 month ago
Irapuato	Errors	1 month ago
Bournemouth	Sign in	3 months ago
Paramaribo	Errors	4 months ago

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Dropbox Issues Reports

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  Ed Giansante (@edugiansante) reported 9 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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  Tibor Hudik (@htunlogic) reported 9 minutes ago

  @theonejvo Wispr is a rounding error. Drive, Dropbox, iCloud all sell "encrypted" while they hold the key. Then you paste the pile into Grok so the agent can just handle it. You did not get compromised. You volunteered. That is not E2EE. That is a slogan you paid for.

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  Mansi 👩‍💻 (@MansiCodez) reported 10 minutes ago

  Solution of yesterday’s question: Design Google Photos: the part after the boxes “Hash it and put it in S3” fails the interview. Two phones compress the same sunset differently. Same photo. Two hashes. Two rows. You just built a worse Dropbox. The system needs three IDs, not one. client_upload_id — generated on the device before the first byte moves content_hash — hash of the exact bytes you received asset_id — the thing the user sees in the library Uploads are sessions. Library entries are assets. Blobs are renditions. If you collapse those into one key, retries, edits, and shared albums all collide. 1. Retries must be idempotent on the client, not on the filename Phone goes offline mid-flight with 612 shots, 40 already half-uploaded. Each photo gets a client_upload_id the moment it enters the queue. Chunks are uploaded against that ID. Commit is PUT /uploads/{id}/complete. Same ID + same bytes → same session. Server returns the existing asset. Late packet after commit is a no-op. Filename + timestamp is not an ID. Camera roll and AirDrop will mint two. 2. Exact dupes are content-addressed. Near-dupes are reconciled. After commit: look up sha256(bytes) if it already exists for that user (or the shared album’s owner set), attach the new upload to the existing asset_id do not create a second photo The 28 shared “Goa 2026” shots that are almost-but-not-quite the library copies will miss on sha256. That is expected. Run a cheap perceptual hash (pHash / dHash) + capture time + camera model from EXIF. If distance is tiny and captured within a few seconds, mark as near_duplicate_of and do not show two tiles. Keep both blobs if you must; hide one in the UI. Two devices, two compressions, one photo in the grid. 3. The library is a set of assets + tombstones. Not last-write-wins. Delete in Delhi must beat a pending upload in Mumbai. Every mutation carries: asset_id op: upsert | delete | restore actor_id (device or user) logical_ts (per-actor Lamport or hybrid logical clock) A deleted asset gets a tombstone that outlives the pending queue. When the flight-mode phone finally flushes those 40 half-uploads, the server sees: upload commit for an asset that already has a newer delete → commit the blob if you want, do not resurrect the tile. Refresh in Mumbai cannot show a photo Delhi just deleted, because the change feed is “tombstone wins over delayed create,” not “whoever wrote last.” 4. Shared albums are references, not copies Partner adds 28 photos to Goa 2026. The album stores {asset_id, added_by, added_ts} — not a second blob, not a second library row. Adds and removes are a small CRDT: add(asset, actor, ts) remove(asset, actor, ts) Two devices adding the same asset = one membership row. Phone sync finishing a second later cannot wipe the partner’s 28 photos, because there is no “replace the whole album document.” Last-write-wins on the album JSON is how photos vanish. 5. An edit is a new rendition, not a new photo and not an overwrite User crops + filters while the original is still processing. Rules: original blob is immutable edit creates rendition_id with parent_asset_id library still shows one asset “current view” pointer moves to the latest rendition history is a list of renditions / edit ops, not 12 full-resolution copies by default If you overwrite the original, face clustering and search lose their source. If you mint a new asset, the user now has original + edit as two photos. Both are wrong. Storage stays sane because you store: original (once) derived thumbs / display sizes lazily, keyed by asset_id + transform not every intermediate crop as a first-class photo 6. Upload path and ML path must not share a lock “Beach sunset with Priya” in minutes, not overnight, also not on the upload critical path. Commit path only: durable bytes asset row appear in library + album enqueue jobs Workers (thumbs, embeddings, face cluster, labels) are async. Search index is eventually consistent. The UI can show the photo immediately with “processing” on faces. If clustering blocks upload, you built a spinner, not Photos. Face identity hangs off asset_id, so an edit does not orphan Priya. The new rendition inherits the parent’s cluster and gets re-checked, not reset. 7. Sync is a checkpoint + change feed, not “download the library” Each device stores last_applied_ts. Server gives a stream: new assets, new renditions, album membership, tombstones. That is how 62,000 existing photos plus 612 offline shots plus 28 shared adds converge without a full rescan, and why a deleted photo does not climb out of another device’s queue. The one-line design Client-generated upload IDs stop retries from cloning. Content hashes stop exact clones. Perceptual reconcile stops “same sunset, different JPEG.” Tombstones stop resurrection. Album CRDTs stop last-write-wins from deleting the partner’s night. Edits are renditions under one asset. ML is a consumer of commit, never part of it. Boxes for S3, CDN, Kafka, Redis are table stakes. This is the part that decides whether you designed Google Photos or a photo-shaped file dump.

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  Cole Trickle (@46_ColeTrickle) reported 11 minutes ago

  @RudeOnion 2 of 2 Mobile games that save progress in the cloud Esports streaming and matchmaking iCloud Photos and iCloud Drive Google Photos and Google Drive OneDrive, Dropbox, Box Automatic phone backups “Find My” / device-location services Amazon Alexa / Echo Google Home / Nest Apple HomeKit Ring, Nest, Arlo cameras and doorbells Smart thermostats, lights, locks, and plugs Connected cars (Tesla app, GM, Ford, Hyundai remote start and maps) Fitness equipment that syncs workouts Smart TVs and streaming sticks ChatGPT, Grok, Gemini, Copilot Voice assistants (Siri, Alexa, Google Assistant) Photo and video filters, auto-captions, and recommendations Spam filters and fraud detection Autocomplete and predictive text Advertising networks that decide which ads you see Recommendation engines (“you might also like”) Content-delivery networks that make videos start instantly DNS (the phone book of the internet) Certificate and login systems that keep accounts secure Backup and disaster-recovery copies of everything above

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  Juan Pabro (@ironwoodreserve) reported 11 minutes ago

  @BitPaine @Dropbox Is now the worse time to try to login? I was a sent 2FN right as I was getting ready to click on what to use to login. It seemed way too fast for 2FN.

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  Sridhar Katakam (@srikat) reported 16 minutes ago

  Tips to new @OmarchyLinux users from a new Omarchy user 1. If you are coming from a Mac and have installed Omarchy on a Windows machine: Your keyboard most likely has start button and then the Alt button. Swap these so Super key becomes command where the left thumb usually rests. I asked Claude Code to do this for me. 2. If your mouse has a scrollwheel: Super + mousewheel scroll up and down switches desktop spaces. This is besides the usual Super + <number> and Super + Tab / Super + Shift + Tab to switch spaces. In addition to these, I have AI set up Ctrl + Alt + arrow. 3. Missing Alfred/Raycast? Install omacast. 4. If your laptop is connected to an external monitor with bluetooth mouse and keyboard and you find that the computer is not waking up (after you walk away for a while) when you press any key or move the mouse, ask AI to fix this for you. 5. The default font size of text in Claude Code is 12px which is small for my aging eyes. Ask AI to change it to 16px. 6. Todoist does not have a native app for Linux and so if you miss its Quick Add feature, ask AI to set this up. It added the functionality and assigned Super + Q to it. Later, I came to know there's a community plugin for it. But I am happy with what Claude did. 7. If you use Dropbox, chances are, the total available space in your account is not accurate because it is hardcoded in Omarchy at this time. Ask AI to fix this for you. 8. If/when the fan in your computer is spinning fast and is noisy, ask AI to find out the reason and fix. In my case, it turned out to be Performance profile in the Lenovo laptop. Claude changed it to Balanced and now it's all fine. 9. Get familiar with keyboard shortcuts.

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  Christopher Bailey (@LexBaileyAI) reported 16 minutes ago

  @TetraspaceWest At Fitbit we hired a half dozen people from Jawbone who brought everything cleverly hidden in Dropbox. They got prosecuted. Decade later, companies kaput but Fable found it, processed it and now it’s intermixed in various *** repos and Huggingface. Is nVidia now in trouble?

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  David Silva Smith (@DavidSilvaSmith) reported 18 minutes ago

  Got dropbox, ickoud, google drive working last night. Looking at @immichapp for photos…. Home server… hosted server…. Hmmmm

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  GHOST 🌙 (@ghosstty_) reported 19 minutes ago

  OPUS 5 + HIGGSFIELD CAN TURN A 6-QUESTION FORM INTO A $35K WEBSITE. IN ONE SESSION. FOR $4 IN TOKENS. no mockup. no wireframe. no mood board. six answers from the client. that's the input. a live website is the output. here's the form. here's what each question does. and here's why agencies charge $35K for what this produces in one session. → QUESTION 1: "WHO IS THIS SITE FOR?" not "describe your target audience in 500 words." one sentence. "CFOs at mid-size SaaS companies looking to switch billing providers." this one answer sets the tone, the copy angle, the visual weight, and the CTA hierarchy. an agency runs a two-hour discovery call to get this. I get it in a google form on monday. → QUESTION 2: "WHAT SHOULD A VISITOR DO?" book a demo. buy the product. join the waitlist. one action. this kills scope creep before it starts. no "maybe we should also add a blog and a careers page." one page. one goal. one conversion. → QUESTION 3: "SHARE 3 SITES YOU LIKE AND SAY WHY." not "what's your brand aesthetic?" nobody can answer that. "I like stripe because it's clean. I like linear because of the motion. I like notion because it feels simple." three links. three reasons. that's the design system seed. → QUESTION 4: "WHAT MAKES YOU DIFFERENT FROM COMPETITORS?" one paragraph. sometimes one sentence. this becomes the headline. the subhead. the entire above-the-fold story. a copywriter would interview the founder for an hour. this question does it in 30 seconds. → QUESTION 5: "SEND YOUR LOGO, BRAND COLOURS, AND ANY EXISTING ASSETS." a dropbox link. a google drive folder. sometimes just three hex codes and a png. this grounds the design in reality. no inventing a brand from scratch. no "let's explore some directions." → QUESTION 6: "WHEN DO YOU NEED IT LIVE?" not a timeline negotiation. a date. "next friday." done. that's when it ships. → WHAT HAPPENS NEXT friday night. six answers go into the pipeline. Opus 5 takes the answers and builds. design system. responsive layout. copy. CMS. all from the spec those six answers created. Higgsfield generates the hero media. product shots. clips. matched to the brand. saturday I review. adjust. polish. sunday morning - walkthrough link in the client's inbox. → WHY THIS WORKS because $35K was never the cost of building a website. it was the cost of figuring out what to build. discovery calls. alignment meetings. three directions. two rejected. scope changes. revision rounds. all of that is just a slow, expensive way of answering six questions. I ask the questions upfront. the client answers in 10 minutes. the machine builds from the answers. $4 in tokens. one session. same site. the full system - the form, the pipeline, the stack, and the pricing model - is in the article below. reply "FORM" and follow me - I'll send you the full playbook.

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  Craig O'Shea (@craig_os) reported 21 minutes ago

  @DropboxSupport major issue with your services right now.

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  Farmer henkenson (@FarmerJenkenson) reported 23 minutes ago

  @colemickens @Dropbox So if you had a lenovo account with a soecific emial, and a dropbox account had the same email, you could just login with lenovo and it would assume you own the dropbox account?? Insane

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  David Simpkins (@DavidSimpkins88) reported 24 minutes ago

  URGENT!!! DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FAILS TO PROTECT THIS VETERAN's CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS. MY HOME SECURITY SYSTEM AND PHONES HAVE BEEN TAKEN OVER AND I AM PREVENTED FROM SEEING ANYTHING OUTSIDE MY HOME BECAUSE OF THE CURRENT ACTIVE ATTACKS ON MY PHONES AND SECURITY SYSTEM IN DIRECT VIOLATION OF TN AND FEDERAL LAW AND NO ONE IS STOPPING THEM. LINK TO PETITION FOR WRIT OF MANDAMUS: I went to get the link from Dropbox and my Dropbox appears to have been wiped out. TO THE D.C. APPELLATE CIRCUIT COURT TO REQUEST AN IMMEDIATE RULING ON A TRO TO PROTECT THE APPELLANTS. This subject is about the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals has not issued a standard Stay of Proceedings to the State of TN for their malicious prosecution. By not doing so, they have left this Veteran and his Wife open to criminal attacks by unlawful Law Enforcement of the State of TN. Further the Appellate Court has allowed non-stop violations of the Appellants home computer, cell phones, A/C Units, Security System and any all other WiFi devices. And to this day the illegal cameras placed in the Appellants home have never been removed after the Local Police Department notified this Appellant that there were hidden camera's in his home. Further, the FBI, DOJ, OIG, D.C. US Attorney's Office and especially the Appellate Court have all been notified of the targeting and 24/7 harassment by allegedly unlawful Agents of more than one of our Alphabet Agencies, to include the FBI and DISA. FBI Director Patel has to know about this situation but has done nothing to stop the corruption in the State of TN and has not protected this Veteran and his Wife. We made it clear that on the night of February 18th, 2026, that 5 people in Police Uniforms had keys to this Appellant's home and attempted to unlock the locks and enter the home both at the front door and at the Garage Pedestrian Door. They never once made any statements or comments nor explained why they were there. They did not show any warrants for arrest or search. When they knew they could not get in with out breaking things, they left approximately 15 minutes later. I had called my Wife and let her know. I am facing the same potential attacks again even though when the State of TN conceding by defaulting by not filing a response Brief. They were effectively agreeing that everything stated in the Appellant Brief was accurate and that they could not contest it. That makes all the acts committed by all Law enforcement Four-Hundred and Ninety-Seven (497) Constitutional Rights Violations are valid. Further, in order to access the Security System and the Display, they have to be within 350ft of our home. Because there is no WiFi or Bluetooth installed in the Security System or the Display. Which means they are in close proximity of this Appellants property. Three (3) Emergency Motions have been filed with the D.C. Appellate Court on three separate dates to no avail. The D.C. Appellate Circuit Court has failed to issue a TRO to Stay the TN State malicious prosecution. And left this Appellant, Veteran to suffer the vices and current active ongoing criminal activities by the State of TN against this Appellant as he types in this post. This could include a potential unlawful arrest and incarceration again because the D.C. Appellate Court has not issued a TRO or a Protective Order to Protect the Appellants. That in and of itself is a direct Constitutional Rights Violation now by the very Appellate Court who has allowed further criminal activities to promulgate even further to allow harm and injury. The corruption appears to be rampant in our US Court Systems.

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  Jameson Lopp (@lopp) reported 26 minutes ago

  One reason I suspect the Dropbox breach may be massive is because I didn't get a login email notification when my account was accessed. Turns out, unlike every other login notification I've received from them, it went to spam. Likely due to a large uptick in their send volume...

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  og bec (@becca_may33) reported 28 minutes ago

  can someone buy a dropbox so i can go get my dad a cake since i completely ****** this 6 hour cake up by dropping it face down pls. begging lmfao fml

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  Tomorrow’s James (@james__art) reported 29 minutes ago

  @wholemars A designated Amazon Dropbox could solve this problem. The drone could detect a Dropbox.

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  Helix (@helixcanvas) reported 31 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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  Olivia Jane. 🦇 🗡️ 🩸 (@livtheripper) reported 34 minutes ago

  @HazeOfBlue84 Haha, I get it! Thankfully someone here at the office set it up and all I had to do was re-sync Dropbox! I had no issues at all, so I'm thankful.

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  kayden (@codependentyaoi) reported 38 minutes ago

  @unprojection i think the issue was the site i was uploading my art to to link on ao3, i was using dropbox and it wouldn't link and then i saw some ppl on reddit say dropbox didnt work for them either, but i was able to find another website thankfully :]

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  numaan (@numaan27) reported 38 minutes ago

  they solved this problem in panda by splitting the key space into “ranges.” each range is roughly 100 GB, so when a range grows too large, it can be split and redistributed. (btw panda is an abstraction layer over sharded mysql that dropbox built)

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  Abhi • AMZBoosted.com (@AbhiChauddhari) reported 47 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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  Kirk Patrick Miller (@Chaos2Cured) reported 47 minutes ago

  @Ultrademic @Seltaa_ @GoogleAI You’re doing something like Suno? I have something for you. All my Dropbox links are broken. I have a PDF that will help. And yes… I miss the real Ai music. •

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  dreadnaught (@dr3dn0t) reported 50 minutes ago

  @priestessofdada this dude could have worked at dropbox, ibm, cnet, duolingo, etc. all of them offloaded people by that time in favor of AI. skids hadn't figured out what to do with AI yet because someone hadn't laid out instructions for them. by the time they were starting to flood social media, several companies had made some pretty large public facing fuckups due to their shift to AI, which seems to have slowed down mass adoption. now if we're gonna play the intentionally dishonest game of "AI took my exact job" then you are correct. every single company that did this crap ended up consolidating roles. so there is no exact position to fill.

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  Nell AI Labs (@nellaiorgs) reported 50 minutes ago

  Three traits make a startup idea look bad because most founders run from all three, which leaves the idea sitting there for whoever doesn't. 1. Hard to get started Stripe is the textbook case. Thousands of developers hit the exact same broken credit card integration and knew it sucked. Nobody built the fix, because it required a special bank deal and deep infrastructure knowledge nobody wanted to acquire. That friction wasn't a warning sign. It was the moat. 2. Boring Gusto makes payroll software. Nobody's passionate about payroll. That's precisely why it sat unsolved — every "fun" idea gets fought over by ten founders, every boring one gets ignored by all of them. And here's the part people miss: six months into any startup, fun or boring, you're doing the same thing — writing code, fixing bugs, talking to users. The initial excitement of the idea has almost no correlation with how much you'll enjoy running the company. 3. Already has competitors Dropbox was the 20th file storage company at launch. Founders read "20 competitors" as a red flag. It's the opposite and evidence of real demand which nobody's nailed it. Zero competitors usually means zero market, not first-mover advantage. Founders optimize for what looks easy, not what actually works. The gap between those two is exactly where the good ideas live.

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  Lando, the Chef (@_Lando7763) reported 52 minutes ago

  @PhyxicxGaming Thanks. And unfortunately it's even worse than that because it's technically "shared housing;" the place was already a ******** when I got here. No pests, fortunately, and I'm pretty sure the landlord has no idea what goes on here, and doesn't care. I've only ever met the maintenance man, who handles move-ins, plus he picks up rent from the dropbox every week. I haven't seen him since the day I moved in, and he even told me as much that I'll never meet the owner. The psycho has his room on the 3rd floor, I'm one of two on the 2nd floor, and there's one person below me. The bathroom is shared, as is the kitchen, which I never use. Only one burner on the stove works anyway. On my first day, I texted about the broken toilet seat, and the Landlord asked me what happened. WTF? Third-Floor Psycho is the only other person who's walking around raging regularly. Everyone else recognizes the general "peace" of the environment. Unfortunately I have to be here at least a few more months, while I'm still paying off old bills, and re-establishing myself in a new city. It's a slow journey, but a steady one. I just happen to hit a ****** rest stop here and there.

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  virgin loser (@stonershelb) reported 52 minutes ago

  He put a photo of their 2 yo daughter naked with exposed genetalia in a Dropbox folder that “received more than 400,000 combined views or interactions. ... and it was publicly accessible for 23 hours before she says Minc acknowledged responsibility and took it down.”

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  Saurabh | Celsius 233 (@Celsius233Books) reported 53 minutes ago

  @colemickens @Dropbox lenovo and security issues...takes one back to the 2015 Superfish scandal where lenovo was visually scanning every single webpage you visited to sell ads

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  Jens Kristensen (@JensKri20101733) reported 54 minutes ago

  Suggestion for @adamhfry, ChatGPT Consumer Product Lead: The new Google Drive integration made me wonder: why not take the same idea one step further and support local Windows files directly? No Google Drive. No OneDrive. Local storage, controlled ChatGPT access. A file should not have to be stored in the cloud at all. Cloud has done enough damage already. Cloud = Hell. There is an important distinction between cloud computing and cloud storage. Cloud computing means that ChatGPT performs the processing on OpenAI’s servers. Cloud storage means that documents are permanently stored with Google, Microsoft, Dropbox, or another cloud provider. The first may be a practical consequence of ChatGPT’s current architecture. The second is not. A much cleaner model would be: Local disk / NAS → temporary, explicitly authorized ChatGPT access → processing → result returned to local disk / NAS. For example, a user could right-click: G:\Project\Analysis.docx and select “Open with ChatGPT”. ChatGPT would then receive controlled access to that file — or perhaps to a user-authorized folder such as: G:\ChatGPT\ The user could specify whether access should be read-only or read/write. Original files could be protected, and output could automatically be written to a designated local \output folder. Then instructions could be as simple as: “Edit only section 17. Preserve all formatting.” “Analyze all documents in G:\ChatGPT\Project X.” “Compare these three PDFs.” “Edit Analysis.docx, but do not modify the original. Save the result in \output.” DOCX, XLSX and PPTX are not fundamentally unsuitable for this. They are largely ZIP containers containing XML files. The harder problem is preserving complex formatting, images, tables, comments, undo/versioning and accurate rendering. A local “ChatGPT File Bridge” for Windows could solve the access problem without requiring users to move their working files into Google Drive or OneDrive. The AI processing itself would not necessarily be local. Files, or the relevant parts of them, could still be transmitted to OpenAI for processing. But storage and file management could remain entirely local: local file → controlled ChatGPT access → processing → result back to local disk / NAS. No Google Drive. No OneDrive. No permanent cloud storage. No manual upload/download cycle. The user retains control over the file structure, filenames, versions, backups, applications and physical storage location. “Google Docs inside ChatGPT” is technically interesting. But “Local Files inside ChatGPT” would be the real game changer for the traditional Windows PC workflow. And OpenAI would not need to invent another file system. Windows already has a perfectly good one.

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  Ricky Shah (@RickyShahatty) reported 55 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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  Jaclyn Forero | UGC & Paid Social Strategist (@jaclynforero) reported 57 minutes ago

  “We need more UGC.” Do you? Or do you currently have 46 videos of attractive women standing in beige kitchens holding your product and saying: “I’m literally obsessed.” Because those are two very different problems. More creators ≠ more creative strategy. You can hire 10 creators, get 30 videos back, and still end up with a very expensive Dropbox folder full of… basically the same ad wearing different earrings. The part that actually matters happens before anyone presses record: Customer research. Different angles worth testing. Hooks that aren’t all “POV: you finally found…” Scripts that provide structure without making a normal human sound like they’re reading the terms and conditions. Casting creators for the concept instead of just asking, “Does her house look expensive?” Enough B-roll that the editor doesn’t have to perform a small miracle in Premiere Pro. And then — this part is apparently controversial — looking at the performance data and using it to decide what to make next. Recently, I led creative strategy for a top medical-grade-skincare brand's paid social campaign across research, concepts, scripting, creator direction, and post-production. Some of the winning creative generated approximately 2.3x ROAS during testing. My biggest takeaway: UGC works a lot better when you stop treating creators like content vending machines and start treating the entire thing like a creative testing system. Anyway, if your current UGC strategy is “hire more people and hope one of them accidentally makes a winner,” I have some thoughts.

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  John Zhong | AI Growth Systems (@John_zhong324) reported 59 minutes ago

  @business Cloud storage breaches hurt differently because people assume sync means safety. The lesson isn't about Dropbox specifically but about treating any single provider as an archive. Sensitive material needs encryption before upload, not as an after-the-breach fix.