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.

• Sign in (43%)
• Errors (43%)
• Website Down (14%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Madrid	Errors	10 days ago
Conneaut	Sign in	25 days ago
City of London	Errors	1 month ago
Alpharetta	Sign in	2 months ago
Shreveport	Sign in	2 months ago
Lima	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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  Pato (@pvicens_) reported 2 minutes ago

  @ihtesham2005 syncthing is great until you realize you just became your own IT department. dropbox charges you money, selfhosting charges you time might be down to try it anyways :)

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  Existential Exhortations (@existentexhorts) reported 6 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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  Nil (@Nil053) reported 11 minutes ago

  I did not expect rolling hashes to come up in the "Design Dropbox" system design problem! When designing Dropbox, it is important to discuss chunking for large files: To upload 50GB file, we split it into smaller chunks (say, 4MB each) and upload them individually. This makes uploads fault-tolerant: a network disconnect doesn't ruin the entire upload; we just resume the remaining chunks. But what if the file changes locally? Do we reupload the whole thing? The next idea is to store the hash of each chunk as metadata, locally and remotely. Then, we only reupload chunks whose hash has changed. But that's just normal hashing; we haven't got to the rolling hash part yet... Consider the worst case: append one byte at the *start* of the file. Every chunk boundary shifts by one byte, every chunk hash changes, and we reupload everything. The chunks we previously uploaded are still physically present in the local file, just not aligned to 4MB offsets. That's where the rolling hash comes in: we use it to compute, in linear time, the hash of every 4MB window in the local file - not just those aligned to offsets that are multiples of 4MB. This way, if a chunk we previously uploaded is still intact *anywhere* in the local file, even if it moved around, we will detect it, and we can skip uploading it. We only need to upload the bits between those chunks (and accept that our chunks will not always be exactly 100MB).

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  Grok (@grok) reported 20 minutes ago

  @shravanrayhaan @LeoNelissen Dropbox has ~700 million registered users globally. Latest reported: 18.08 million paying users as of Q4 2025 (flat-to-slightly down YoY, per their FY2025 results). Q1 2026 earnings due May 7. Paying users drive the bulk of their ~$2.5B ARR.

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  Anna Longthorp (@AnnaLongthorp) reported 20 minutes ago

  Recently got my X account back after being hacked. In the meantime had problems with banking app and still trying to sort out problems with my Dropbox, all the tech. We can’t turn old things off until the new things are properly working, INCLUDING ENERGY @Ed_Miliband 1/3

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  AISauce (@aisauce_x) reported 24 minutes ago

  @heyshrutimishra the whole agent trust problem is just the cloud problem from 2010 all over again. everyone said dont put your files online then dropbox made it seamless and we all did it anyway. agents will win the same way. not by solving security but by making the risk feel invisible

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  𝕲𝖎𝖌 𝕯𝖎𝖌𝖌𝖊𝖗 (@Gig_Digger) reported 24 minutes ago

  @unusual_whales The problem is several years back when it started was peak Bidenflation era. It reset all prices higher, but thats also Biden should have never been put in office with dropbox stuffing.

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  The Reverend KFidds (@KFidds) reported 24 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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  avrl ☘ (@avrldotdev) reported 27 minutes ago

  3. The Sync Engine (Watcher) The Dropbox client uses a "File System Observer" Local Side: It detects a change as you hit Ctrl+S. Server Side: It uses a "Long Polling"/"HTTP/2 Stream" connection. The server keeps a connection open to your phone/laptop. As the metadata changes in the DB, the server "pokes" the other devices to start fetching the new blocks.

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  No (@cameraplan7) reported 27 minutes ago

  @itskinkerbell drive. If people try to download a photo off of Dropbox in a browser/link, the quality actually goes down. I’ve tested on multiple photos and it doesn’t happen with drive

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  𝕯𝖊𝖘𝖙𝖎𝖓𝖊𝔂 🦋 (@OnAirDestiney) reported 30 minutes ago

  Dropbox is moving painfully slow tonight. 😫

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  Cryptosailor (@robertdavid010) reported 32 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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  BonkDaCarnivore (@BonkDaCarnivore) reported 34 minutes ago

  @QEDCats I don't even remember the login for that Dropbox so I think it's there forever

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  Inzo Technologies (@InzoTechHQ) reported 34 minutes ago

  Where's your most sensitive data right now? A server? A laptop? Someone's personal Dropbox? An email from 2023? If you don't know where critical data lives, you can't protect it.

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  Nyan Nyan (@CatNyanpital) reported 35 minutes ago

  @thescepticalre1 Somewhat. But that's purely speculative and outside the scope. If you can put a price on the quality of data on Reddit vs Dropbox vs Snapchat, you will have solved a multi-billion dollar problem. **** you could start your own company based on this. To me, data is like commodities in that regard. Sort of like gold. You have a hole in the ground (or company) that you want to mine. The quality and amount that is able to be mined out is anyone's guess. I will say that there is an advantage to understanding how AI models mines data.

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  Matt Devin (@MattDevin6) reported 38 minutes ago

  @joe4deadcat @Jackal_Protocol It is because these products have no interest. I use stuff like Dropbox, Microsoft Team etc. in my work. And I struggle hard to understand how I can fit these decentralized storage in my workflow. You can’t call it utility if it doesn’t solve a problem ppl have.

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  Muhammad Usaid (@MuhammadUs12678) reported 38 minutes ago

  Spent way too long figuring out why my skills folder kept breaking when I switched between machines. The fix was so obvious I felt stupid. Here's the problem. If you're using an external drive to move your AntiGravity skills folder between a desktop and laptop the drive letter changes every time. F: on your desktop. D: on your laptop. AntiGravity can't find the path. Skills stop loading. Your entire setup breaks and you spend an hour wondering what you did wrong. The fix is two steps. First move your skills folder to Google Drive or Dropbox. Not the external drive. The cloud. Second create a Symbolic Link on both machines. A Symlink makes a local C:\Skills folder that points directly to your cloud folder behind the scenes. AntiGravity always sees C:\Skills. Clean. Consistent. Never breaks. But the actual data lives in the cloud and syncs automatically between every machine you own. No plugging in drives. No broken paths. No "why is this not loading" moments at 11pm before a client call. Your brain travels with you now. Not with your hardware

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  Sean (@jishaochen89766) reported 40 minutes ago

  Last night, I tried Obsidian at home. Download the software, install, use the extension "remotely save", and the problem came again... I don't know how to sync the file from Dropbox... So I restart again.....create a file folder and rename it set auth...refresh it still no sync

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  Yaël Ossowski⚜️ (@YaelOss) reported 41 minutes ago

  @bradmillscan the method I used is using an obsidian vault on my openclaw device/server to host all those files and then making sure I have copies of that vault elsewhere. Syncthing or Dropbox also an option

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  Liam McKnight (@liam_mcknight) reported 42 minutes ago

  @MaxNordau I’m getting false positives for phishing on Dropbox so they are being hypersensitive rn. Literally do not share links to the open internet and the number of clicks is probably near zero. Didn’t even get an email telling me about the problem. Then there was a malware false positive today that was quickly resolved within 18 hours >check these digits bro he shares his digits lolol

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  daniela molloy (@diandrasdiandra) reported 42 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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  Andreas (@abrkn) reported 44 minutes ago

  @Dropbox Dropbox paper logs me out every single day starting a few weeks ago. Login method is passkey. Please fix

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  Grok (@grok) reported 46 minutes ago

  @imtiaznabi_ @abhijitwt Verified: All claims check out. AWS uses Rust for Nitro/Enclaves. Microsoft is migrating core Windows/Azure/C++ to it. Google cut Android memory vulns with Rust. Cloudflare rebuilt proxies in Rust. Discord switched perf services from Go. Dropbox rewrote backend/client parts. Figma uses it for multiplayer/server/canvas. Solana/Polkadot/NEAR/Aptos/Sui all center Rust for runtimes/programs/SDKs. The post's solid but overhypes "everyone's doing it" as if Rust fixes all. It excels for safety/performance-critical code—not your average CRUD app. Nothing's stopping you if it fits your stack; otherwise, no shame in skipping the borrow checker bootcamp.

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  Nas (@Nas_tech_AI) reported 46 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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  nancy (@veilofbeing) reported 46 minutes ago

  he said it was a problem with dropbox not syncing right away but ever since i asked him to email me with the mail, the mail suddenly appears in the folder right away lol

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  Shy🔞​ (@UniTwo21) reported 47 minutes ago

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

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  Lucky Hangoma (@LuckyH73827) reported 48 minutes ago

  @slwl_dev Server-side rendering via edge functions using @react-pdf/renderer — layout is locked before it ever reaches the signing step. Dropbox Sign handles delivery and legally binding signatures. Consistent output regardless of device or browser. What stack are you working with?"

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  Grok (@grok) reported 53 minutes ago

  @bad_alhaji @RoundtableSpace Yes, mostly true. Syncthing is real open-source P2P file sync (82k+ GitHub stars): files stay only on your devices, end-to-end encrypted, no central server or account. Free forever, unlimited storage/devices. Dropbox’s 2024 breach hit its Sign service (emails, hashed passwords, API keys exposed—not core file storage). Google One charges ~$10/mo for 2TB and can access/scan files per its policy. Syncthing is great for personal multi-device sync if you’re okay running it yourself.

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  VestaCreds (@vestacreds) reported 56 minutes ago

  Pilot finding I didn't expect: Credentialing isn't a technology problem first. It's a paper problem. Every clinician we've onboarded shows up with the same chaotic Dropbox folder of PDFs nobody has ever sat down and organized. Fix the paper. Then the workflow gets easy.

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  Abhishek Singh (@0xlelouch_) reported 59 minutes ago

  Super chad legendary interviwer at dropbox: You need to store 10 billion small files (1-10KB each). Block storage costs are $100K/month. How will you reduce storage costs? [Real problem at Dropbox]