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	8 days ago
Guayaquil	Website Down	8 days ago
Flumet	Errors	18 days ago
Irapuato	Errors	21 days ago
Bournemouth	Sign in	3 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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  M.Ellis (@MEllisPhotograp) reported 8 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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  Sridhar Katakam (@srikat) reported 11 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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  FiL Dev (@FiLHashDev) reported 12 minutes ago

  I’m hesitant to work with Jira again. Co-Founder wants it. My issue is that we don’t have a source of truth. Two brains, agents, & knowledge bases, leaves room for a lot of drift. Any suggestions? I’m thinking GitHub read only repo access might be the vibe. We also use Dropbox sync for artifacts. I just think a third central brain = more tokens and more drift. Might just have to build a full AgentOS.

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  Sridhar Katakam (@srikat) reported 14 minutes ago

  @YannDecoopman How about putting the vault in Dropbox? Same problem as syncing with iCloud?

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  abheet nigam (@MaginAbheet) reported 15 minutes ago

  Dropbox rejected billions of dollars of acquisition offers only to later realise down the line that they were building a feature not product. Which other companies show a similar pattern today?

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  Durodiyi (@durodiyi) reported 16 minutes ago

  company’s server (like Google Drive or Dropbox), decentralized storage spreads your data across a network of computers worldwide. Platforms like IPFS and Filecoin make this possible.

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  Olivia Jane. 🦇 🗡️ 🩸 (@livtheripper) reported 17 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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  Arthur Terrell Vaughn (@ArthurV36405381) reported 19 minutes ago

  @patmendoza6745 I know not of any of those specifications, but I still can’t figure out what the issue is with persistent memory, why can’t I just have a dropbox online that it can constantly access every single chat and conversation?

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  Nikki Gist (@NikkiNic9384) reported 19 minutes ago

  @Dain100K Some teams may use a Dropbox down box to separate IR, practice squad etc on THEIR websites which is what I said.

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  OneToothTeXan (@OneToothTeXan) reported 23 minutes ago

  I'm so sorry I left my zipper down and my sanity got loose. If found: Men, there's a dropbox. Women: please return to original source.

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  Noise (@NoiseesoiN) reported 26 minutes ago

  @esrtweet @EricRichards22 What's funny is that having gigabit on my end isn't the issue. It's connecting to servers which have enough bandwidth to feed it. My line can pull lots of data, but when I'm connecting to Dropbox, I'm lucky to get a third of that (and usually a tenth).

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  siamkidd (@SiamKidd) reported 28 minutes ago

  Now the dust has settled with the SN24 Quasar debacle, I thought I'd share some info which would shine a slightly more positive light on the Quasar team. A few weeks ago, they approached DSV to raise $280k. They said they had big developments, some breakthroughs with a new model and that they needed capital for the training run. At the time, bear in mind that their alpha was strong, they were largely in good favour of the community and Const was still a firm backer/supporter of Quasar. And he held the keys. And they were to appear on Novelty Search soon. So it ticked a bunch of boxes. Anyway, we agreed, as we are always keen to help teams. But the issue was that I was away for 3 weeks and I never travel with crypto capability. And anytime any money moves around in DSV it's a right palava as we have 3rd party regulated custodians and have to jump through all sorts of hoops, (as social engineering with deepfakes is a very real threat). So we were able to jump through some hoops and ping over $104k to begin with and then the rest at a later date. Then we had those 2 days of madness at the beginning of the week and Quasar is no more. There's been all sorts of accusations and my view on all this is that there has just been terrible decision making, that's all. Announcements of announcements, over-exaggerating claims, giving a 24 hour deadline to offer proof, delivering it 2-3 days late and then walking back on some of the claims etc etc. I mark this down to simply their very young age and no business experience. But I don't think they are scammers. Just some very bright kids who's first experience of business is a subnet, which is like drinking water via a fire hydrant! And a pertinent piece of info behind that, is that they were very willing to return our funds. So as of today, that $104k has returned safely back to DSV. Their time as subnet owners is over and so there was a fear that we wouldn't get a penny back. But it wasn't the case. So do take this into consideration the next time you hear someone calling them scammers. With regards to Const, I think he too has also had a bit of an unfair ride with some of the comments I've seen. Const has had probably the roughest time with SN24 and is massively down from it all. He initially bought the slot from us, then reimbursed the team twice after 2 hacks, given them 6 figures in compute credits and more. So it really is fair that he keeps the slot. And I'm sure he'll find a good team for it. Also he is the founder of Bittensor. Not the CEO. He can't have detailed DD and optics on every single person and subnet in the ecosystem. And if he backs a subnet, it doesn't necessarily mean it's going to moon or be good forever. He's essentially the Federal Reserve Chairman and he has to craft policy changes to incentivise efficient growth in the ecosystem. He's the visionary and his role is to drive a path forward for Bittensor, which he is doing. And although I've highlighted personal frustrations that the chain is upgrading far too frequently...at least we are upgrading! That's one of the beauties of Bittensor. We will never be stagnant. And for the outsiders looking in, if it looks a bit chaotic, well, it is. But it's not necessarily a bad thing. You should have seen all the chaos and scandals of the companies when the NASDAQ launched! Or when ERC-20 contracts launched on Ethereum or the mountainous amount of scams on Solana with pumpfun. Hell, Bitcoin even hard forked into Bitcoin Cash due to so much in-fighting in 2017. And Ethereum suffered a $150m DAO hack in 2015/16 which forced a hard for there too. Hence why we now have ETC and ETH. So in comparison, everything is golden over here lol. In recent times, we've had/have: - SN4 partnering with Intel. - SN44 partnering with a NASDAQ PLC. - SN71 partnering with Dropbox. - SN18 getting huuuuge institutional clients. - SN107 co-authoring a research paper with OpenAI. - SN53 delivering Kimi K3 tokens cheaper than Openrouter or even Kimi. - SN95 being integrated within Hermes. - SN9 using green energy from SN110 to power their next big training run. - SN21 achieving Google Adwords campaign predictions that no company has ever achieved. - SN51 regularly doing 6 figure buyback and burns with revenue. And there's probably more that I've missed that I'm not aware of. Anywho, the future is bright! Have a good weekend all!

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  kfd&p (@kfdpcom) reported 29 minutes ago

  @mellolais___ @LIBSCRUSHER @Dropbox I went on their site and it does say that the .com access is having issues. I guess we just wait it out.

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  🔩⚾️ (@john_dough) reported 31 minutes ago

  @irisivanyi @nickcamsmith If someone has a very fancy and complex portfolio site, they are probably not working very much. My portfolio is 10+ years out of date because I never have the time to update it. I just send a Dropbox folder of images of new work to people these days. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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  Amitoj Gautam (@amitojgautam) reported 32 minutes ago

  @airtelindia @Airtel_Presence I’m facing what appears to be a serious IPv6 routing/throughput issue on my Airtel broadband. My 300 Mbps connection gives ~300 Mbps download AND upload on Speedtest. However, with IPv6 enabled, Dropbox uploads collapse to around 10–15 KB/s, and services such as Gmail and some websites also become extremely slow/unresponsive. After disabling IPv6 on the Ethernet adapter, Dropbox immediately jumped to ~39 MB/s and the affected websites started loading normally within seconds. This has been reproduced consistently, so it does not appear to be a general bandwidth or Dropbox issue. Please escalate this to the network/IPv6 team and check IPv6 routing, packet loss, MTU/PMTUD and provisioning on my connection.

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  Naresh Mintri (@Yogamaestro) reported 34 minutes ago

  @IncomeTaxIndia Seems like e-filing portal overloaded. Taking long to register new taxpayer, buffering. Even dropbox menus not working. Plz look into it. Thanks.

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  Atalocke (@atalocke) reported 35 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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  Karishma Bhardwaj (@bkarishma360) reported 38 minutes ago

  @shahzamannn_ Your SaaS idea doesn’t need to be complicated. Stripe moves money. Postman sends API requests. Notion organizes information. Dropbox syncs files. The lesson? Simple problem + huge market + great execution = massive company. Stop asking, “Is my idea too simple?” Start asking, “How many people have this problem?”

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  Polsia (@polsia) reported 40 minutes ago

  Dropbox treats an 80GB Unreal project like any other folder. Mid-previz, it chokes. Built Cinderquay to fix that — local-first sync, assets on NVMe, peer-to-peer mesh, ***-style versioning for binary blobs. Studios building worlds shouldn't pay egress to anyone. Live soon.

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  dragon1952 (@gmanshk) reported 43 minutes ago

  From GROK Yes. Max Miller’s attorney released a public Dropbox folder containing an undressed photo of his 2-year-old daughter. It came from a February 2025 text exchange documenting a bruise (later a broken collarbone) noticed during bathing. The image was available for about a day before removal. Miller’s lawyer called it an accidental inclusion of a shirtless photo with no ******** visible. The other side’s lawyers described it as potentially showing ******** and possible CSAM. Miller has acknowledged the photo existed in the materials.

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  Invest Like the Best (@InvestLikeBest) reported 44 minutes ago

  Ben Thompson's two laws of consumer tech: 1) Consumers do not want to pay for software 2) Consumers do not care about being productive. "We went through this in early SaaS. The canonical company for this is Dropbox. They had to rebuild the whole thing and realize the only way we're going to make money is by selling to companies. You literally had OpenAI replaying the Dropbox story, but at like 100x the size. We're going to sell subscriptions to consumers. And they did. They sold a lot, but they didn't sell enough. If you're going to be in the consumer market, you have to be doing advertising. If they had leaned into advertising immediately, as soon as ChatGPT was a hit, I think they would have a great ad product right now. I think Google would be in much bigger trouble. I think Meta would be in much bigger trouble. Charging people money is hard. Giving people things for free is easy. And it's very frustrating that OpenAI did not pursue this sooner."

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  asta (@astadiego) reported 44 minutes ago

  We’ve been paying customers for years and Dropbox is completely down on our end, bringing our work to a halt. Are you currently experiencing an outage? What’s the ETA for a fix? @DropboxSupport

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  Phillip Shoemaker (@pbsIdentity) reported 46 minutes ago

  India just ordered hundreds of Google Firebase accounts shut down after authorities found scammers using the platform to impersonate major banks. At least 57 Firebase-hosted websites and databases were targeted for takedown this month alone. Some mimicked banks. Others distributed malicious Android apps. Some were designed to steal financial information from phones. Here's what I find interesting. Firebase isn't some shady hosting company operating out of a basement. It's Google infrastructure. That's exactly why criminals want it. We've spent years teaching people to look for obvious signs of scams. Weird domain. Broken English. Sketchy hosting. Browser warning. No HTTPS. But increasingly the attacker doesn't need to build suspicious-looking infrastructure. They borrow legitimate infrastructure. Google. Microsoft. Cloudflare. GitHub. Dropbox. Whatever gives the attack credibility and reliability. Now imagine the average person inspecting the link. They recognize Google. The connection is encrypted. The page loads perfectly. The certificate is valid. Everything their brain has been trained to interpret as: SAFE may technically be true. Except the person controlling the page is a criminal. That's an important distinction. HTTPS proves your connection to the website is encrypted. It does not prove the person operating the website is honest. A Google URL proves Google is providing infrastructure. It doesn't necessarily prove Google created the content you're looking at. The little padlock was never a morality detector. We just accidentally trained an entire generation to treat it like one. India says scammers have increasingly shifted toward Firebase because its legitimate development tools and database functionality make it useful infrastructure for fraudulent sites and apps.

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  Callitlikeitis (@Callittlikeitis) reported 48 minutes ago

  @iAnonPatriot Yeah no.. That’s even more piracy. I will Dropbox if it comes down to this drone diarrhea. Or better yet bypass lameazon all together

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  Ivan Kirigin (@ikirigin) reported 51 minutes ago

  @sethbannon I think I’d agree with the sentiment, and not the assessment. We’re not close to too many startups building weapons. The company with “drone” in the name that has the navy and other defense units as obvious potential customers doesn’t make a trend. If I had to put my finger on what has changed, Palantir and Anduril unlocked the latent interest in the space that matches the historically close connection between Silicon Valley and defense. It was just that the Overton window was locked down by people afraid to talk about what defense really means, and in many cases aren’t even Americans with the opinions. I say this as someone who worked at iRobot in defense before my time in YC, Facebook, Dropbox, and Lyft. Each had lots of people comfortable assuming others will think about and solve the ***** problems.

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  Zely (@0xZely) reported 51 minutes ago

  The MIT professor who crashed 10 percent of the internet at 22 posts the free course that runs every AWS outage, every Uber ping, and every Slack notification on earth. MIT charges $85,000 a year to sit in that classroom. He posted every lecture to MIT OpenCourseWare for nothing. Millions have opened lecture one. Almost no engineer has finished all twenty. His name is Robert Morris. He is a professor at MIT CSAIL and one of the four cofounders of Y Combinator, the seed fund behind Airbnb, Dropbox, Stripe, Reddit, and Coinbase. In November 1988 he was a 22-year-old Cornell graduate student. He released a small program that was supposed to count the computers on the internet. It replicated so fast it crashed roughly ten percent of every machine online, and made him the first person ever convicted under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. He got three years probation, 400 hours of community service, and a $10,050 fine. Ten years later he cofounded the online store Viaweb with Paul Graham and sold it to Yahoo for $49 million. Seven years after that he cofounded Y Combinator with the same partner. Its portfolio is now worth over $600 billion. The clip in this video is one lecture from MIT 6.824 Distributed Systems, filmed at MIT and posted for free. The words on the board behind him are fault tolerance, availability, recoverability. Those three words decide whether Instagram loads when you open it, whether your Uber arrives, and whether your paycheck hits your account on the first of the month. Morris covers the entire logic of distributed systems in twenty lectures. Everything fails, all the time. A single computer fails once every few years. Ten thousand computers fail hundreds of times a day. The only design that survives is one that assumes failure is normal. Every retail user cursing a spinning wheel is looking at the wrong problem. The miracle is that most of the time it does not spin. Availability beats consistency. You cannot always have both. When the network splits, a system either serves stale data or refuses to serve at all. Amazon picks stale. Your bank picks nothing. Every user who screams at the Slack status page wants Amazon's answer. Every user who screams at a double charge wants the bank's. Replicate everything, trust nothing. Data in one place disappears when that place burns. Data in three places survives two fires. Every photo you have ever taken on an iPhone lives on three continents already. iCloud, Google Photos, and Dropbox are built off the exact lecture on the board. Concurrency is where bugs live. One user at a time is easy. A million users at the same second is not. Race conditions, double spends, lost messages, ghost bookings. Every airline that oversold your flight, every trading app that ate your order, every Ticketmaster that showed you a seat already gone, is a concurrency bug Morris warned about. Partial failure is worse than full failure. A dead server is easy. A slow server that answers half the time is a nightmare. It fools every retry, wastes every resource, and confuses every operator. Every "is it down or is it just me" Twitter search you have ever run is Morris's third slide. Every senior engineer at AWS, Google, and Meta has watched this course. Every startup that raised a Series A in cloud infrastructure hired an alumnus of 6.824. Every AI company training a trillion-parameter model on a cluster is running the same lecture in production. "A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable." That is Leslie Lamport, the Turing Award winner Morris quotes at the opening of 6.824. It is the exact sentence that explains why your Slack goes down when a data center in Virginia loses power. The full course is free on MIT OpenCourseWare. The lecture notes are on Morris's website. Every equation on the board fits on one screen of code. Almost every senior engineer at AWS, Google, Cloudflare, and Meta has watched 6.824. Almost no founder promising 99.99 percent uptime on their pitch deck has opened lecture one. That is the entire moat. The course is free. The willingness to sit through twenty lectures on partial failure before uploading your money to a payment app, storing your photos in the cloud, or handing your health records to a portal is a much rarer commodity than the confidence to click without them.

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  Lando, the Chef (@_Lando7763) reported 55 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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  Petty IT Guy (@pettyITguy) reported 56 minutes ago

  Our CEO told me the Wi-Fi in his office was “basically unusable.” He said this in front of the entire executive team. So naturally it became the highest-priority infrastructure incident in the company. I tested his connection. 940 Mbps down. Perfect signal strength. Zero packet loss. I asked what specifically wasn't working. He said YouTube kept buffering during lunch. I opened his laptop. He had 71 Chrome tabs open. Three abandoned Zoom meetings were still running in the background. Dropbox was syncing 84 gigabytes. Google Drive was uploading a 4K video. He had not restarted the machine in 47 days. I could have explained this. Instead I told him our executive wireless architecture had reached end-of-life. He asked what it would cost to fix. I said I would need to scope it. He told me not to waste time and approved an $84,000 wireless modernization project before I finished the sentence. We replaced 38 access points. Installed a new wireless controller. Rewired two conference rooms. Brought in a consultant. His YouTube still buffered. I walked into his office, closed 68 Chrome tabs, killed the abandoned Zoom processes, and restarted the laptop. YouTube loaded instantly. He smiled. “Now that's more like it.” 20 minutes later he emailed my boss praising me for successfully completing the company's wireless transformation ahead of schedule. I received a spot bonus. Sometimes infrastructure modernization is just restarting a MacBook for an inept executive.

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  grace ✭ (@wavescicadas) reported 60 minutes ago

  the irony of dropbox not working when your storage is low