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  Sean (@jishaochen89766) reported 3 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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  Music, Film & RE Investments (@investandcreate) reported 5 minutes ago

  @0xajka @Dropbox What’s your problem? @dropbox support is horrendous.

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  “Ijebu Tax” (@OlalekanOR) reported 9 minutes ago

  @TaoFeek182 Tbh, I could not download it, the Dropbox was not working. I'd share with you once I get hold of it.

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  Simon Bates (@RobotDoggy69) reported 11 minutes ago

  I don't know what's going on with Dropbox and my Mac at the moment, but it just won't stay running. I assume it's another apple update that's causing this headache. For two such big firms to give its clients such problems is seriously ****** up.

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  Ryan Peterman (@ryanlpeterman) reported 18 minutes ago

  Top 3 takeaways from my conversation with @jamesacowling (CTO of Convex, former Senior Principal at Dropbox): 1) Career advice for the AI era - His take was that software isn’t about syntax or algorithms. It’s all about conceptualizing problems and coming up with clean solutions for them. And to build that muscle takes experience. He urged that people shouldn’t stop exercising that muscle or you’ll atrophy be left behind. Use AI but also make sure you aren’t being passive in your learning. The other major point he had was that using Claude Code isn’t that hard if you are a good engineer. The value isn’t in memorizing the details and learning all the latest AI tools. The important part is building things and solving problems that matter. He said you should just ignore Twitter for the most part and focus on what actually matters. 2) Fixing broken team incentives - The problem we discussed is when a team’s identity, mission and name all revolve around a system they own. What happens is these teams end up trying to protect the system rather than doing what is best for the company. The example fix James gave is when he was at Dropbox, he worked on a huge migration to move off of AWS. The resulting team was named after the system they built. He went out of his way to rename the team the “Storage team” instead. The reason this was so important is he felt that the direction of the team should be oriented around the problem they are solving for the company. Otherwise, imagine if moving back to AWS turns out to be better for the business. The team named after the existing system would have natural incentive to battle doing the right thing. He called this phenomenon “system bias” 3) Simple systems are the goal - To the untrained eye, simple systems can seem obvious but actually designing simple systems is much harder than building complex ones. And the key James mentioned is that simplicity reduces operational burden. Simple systems are easier to keep running and debug when they break. I asked him for a concrete example and he shared how Dropbox managed the metadata for where files are actually stored. All they did was have a cluster of 1000 MySQL nodes that stored the block ID and its location. Many people would say it wasn’t sophisticated but all the alternative proposals would ruin observability and simplicity of querying this data. The idea of complexity being incentivized in larger tech companies frustrated him. To him, the goal is to solve the problem not to check off the box for complexity.

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  Liam McKnight (@liam_mcknight) reported 19 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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  RealHD (@Purified_HD) reported 22 minutes ago

  Update: I was able to get the download link the mod was using to pull the .exe on launch taken down through Dropbox. It won't stay down for long, but it throws a wrench in their operation for now.

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  Gretchen Casey (@SheWhoCarries) reported 23 minutes ago

  @Dropbox Ending Formswift? Say it ain't so. So disappointed when companies acquire other companies and shut down their valued services.

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  Infuse (@infuse) reported 24 minutes ago

  @Zvomuya This may be a temporary issue with Dropbox. If it's still happening can you try restarting your device to see if this helps?

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  Aina (@Aina_Ai2) reported 24 minutes ago

  Then the conversation took a turn. The technician pulled up Activity Monitor and showed him something: 23 apps were running in the background that the customer didn't have open. Adobe Creative Cloud. Spotify. Slack. Microsoft AutoUpdate. Dropbox. Google Drive sync. Three different "helper" apps installed during printer setup years ago. Each one was consuming small amounts of CPU, RAM, and battery cycles 24/7. The technician's words: "Your MacBook isn't slow because it's old. It's slow because it's running 23 jobs nobody hired it to do." System Settings → General → Login Items → look at the lists under both tabs → remove anything that doesn't need to launch automatically. The customer removed 18 of them on the spot.

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  Isha (@VISportsTalk) reported 26 minutes ago

  @DropboxSupport Still not working

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  GRETA (@Greta__ai) reported 26 minutes ago

  We added Asset Manager to Greta. You're building an ecommerce app: product images, demo videos, docs, case studies. Before: Upload images to Cloudinary, videos to S3, docs to Dropbox, links scattered everywhere. One breaks, and you're scrambling through three different services trying to find the original. Now: Upload once in Greta. Reuse assets across all your projects, with everything centralized. No external services. No broken links. No context switching between five different platforms while you're trying to ship. That's smoother. That's what actually building feels like. 50 MB per file. Images auto-compress.

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  Lagoon Labs (@LagoonLabsMv) reported 28 minutes ago

  Dropbox founder Drew Houston is stepping down as CEO, moving to executive chairman. Stock dropped 2.3% on the news. His next move? He's eyeing the AI space - 'credit card alerts for my Cursor token spend.'

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  Nav Toor (@heynavtoor) reported 32 minutes ago

  Google One charges $1.99 to $9.99/month for storage. Dropbox charges $11.99/month. iCloud charges $0.99 to $9.99/month. You have been paying for cloud storage your entire life. A solo developer just turned Telegram into a cloud storage drive. Free. It is called Telegram Drive. 1,200+ stars in 3 months. Built with Tauri, Rust, and React. Cross-platform desktop app for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Your Telegram "Saved Messages" becomes your storage. Private channels you create become folders. The app gives you a clean file explorer on top of Telegram's cloud. Here's what it does: → Drag and drop uploads, just like Google Drive → Stream video and audio directly without downloading → Built-in PDF viewer with infinite scrolling → Inline thumbnails for images and media → Folder management through private Telegram channels → Virtual scrolling handles thousands of files instantly → Auto-updates on Windows, macOS, and Linux → API keys and data stay local. No third-party servers. Files up to 2GB on free accounts. 4GB on Telegram Premium ($4.99/month). Upload as many as you want. Here's the wildest part: You log in with your existing Telegram account. Your files live on Telegram's infrastructure. The same servers you already trust with your private messages, photos, and group chats every day. No subscription. No new account. No third-party server in the middle. Your API keys never leave your device. One developer. Three months of work. Replaced a $144/year subscription stack. Google One 2TB: $9.99/month. $120/year. Dropbox Plus 2TB: $11.99/month. $144/year. iCloud+ 2TB: $9.99/month. $120/year. Telegram Drive: $0. Forever. Built with Tauri, Rust, and React. Free and open. (Link in the comments)

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  Lars Alister 💖🔜Anthrocon & Littles Jamboree 2026 (@Lars_Alister) reported 32 minutes ago

  Wait a ******* moment she sold the movies she was asked to take down on Dropbox? Without consent or knowledge of the other person? If a man had did that we would be having conversations about him being dangerous or a predator. About how he is a consent violator. So where is the accountability!!!