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Dropbox Outage Map

The map below depicts the most recent cities worldwide where Dropbox users have reported problems and outages. If you are having an issue with Dropbox, make sure to submit a report below

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The heatmap above shows where the most recent user-submitted and social media reports are geographically clustered. The density of these reports is depicted by the color scale as shown below.

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Dropbox is a file hosting service operated by American company Dropbox, Inc., headquartered in San Francisco, California, that offers cloud storage, file synchronization, personal cloud, and client software.

Most Affected Locations

Outage reports and issues in the past 15 days originated from:

Location Reports
Paramaribo, Paramaribo 1
Bogotá, Bogota D.C. 1
Auxerre, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté 1
Salt Lake City, UT 1
Madrid, Madrid 1
Conneaut, OH 1
City of London, England 1
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Community Discussion

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Dropbox Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • ClaytonBurnsPhD
    Clayton Burns (@ClaytonBurnsPhD) reported

    @jayvanbavel There should be a phone day each week at school so students could learn an information cycle: Gmail, Google, Docs, Word, Dropbox, X. It is an important way to manage information. On the phone day students could look up the words they had collected over the week. OALD App is a brilliant tool. Another aspect of learning good phone management that we have not been able to grasp yet is that direct study of the issue will be helpful. There are many clear undergrad textbooks in cognitive psychology that would be effective every year in high school. One credentialing thing such as AP Psych is weak.

  • mhartl
    Michael Hartl (@mhartl) reported

    For the billionth time @Apple is failing to properly sync my files across devices. It’s hard to believe iCloud is still so incompetent after so many years. I’m sure it’s not a trivial problem, but @Dropbox gets it right every single time. Surely isn’t too hard for Apple?

  • infuse
    Infuse (@infuse) reported

    @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?

  • ashmath34
    Ashley Mathieu (@ashmath34) reported

    @DropboxSupport @Kuramichan7 having the same issue — can't create new folders, can't delete folders, can't rename folders, can't upload. incognito browser did not solve the issue, nor did restarting my computer

  • MattDevin6
    Matt Devin (@MattDevin6) reported

    @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.

  • Chris_Mellor
    Chris_Mellor (@Chris_Mellor) reported

    All of a sudden, when trying to upload Voice Record 7 audio recording files from my iPhone to Dropbox I now have to login to Dropbox and get an emailed verification code .... WHY??? All the convenience has gone. It's enshittification.

  • Purified_HD
    RealHD (@Purified_HD) reported

    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.

  • monamouroui
    Sara (@monamouroui) reported

    @SlmnMANUTD @WindowsLatest I didn't care about updating to the latest build. I cared about how Windows 11's AI deleted my Dropbox files from not only my desktop, but Dropbox itself! I managed to find them in DropBox's web Deleted Files folder and recover them. On top of this Windows decided to move all of my files that were on my hard drive to One Drive without my permission. And in the process of doing so created multiple subfolders D: OneDrive/My Documents/OneDrive/My Documents/OneDrive/My Documents/OneDrive/My Documents/OneDrive/My Documents/OneDrive/My Documents/OneDrive/My Documents/OneDrive/My Documents/OneDrive/My Documents/OneDrive/My Documents/OneDrive/My Documents/etc I brought it over the BestBuy to repair the OS because there were other problems, so I cannot tell you how many layers I had to click through to get to my actual documents. I was able to recover the apps that we affected by the update (ScanSnap, Adobe Illustrator, Acrobat, etc) doing a System Restore. But that didn't help with my files.

  • SmolMacApp
    Smol (@SmolMacApp) reported

    Email attachment limits aren’t small. Your files are big. There’s a difference, and the fix is usually 10 seconds, not a Dropbox link.

  • Augustuskiefer
    PATRICK (@Augustuskiefer) reported

    @DropboxSupport We did not. The issue resolved around 12:45 cst

  • ryanlpeterman
    Ryan Peterman (@ryanlpeterman) reported

    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.

  • fuergnani
    hani (@fuergnani) reported

    I got greedy … if there’re kind sisters who would take the trouble to put the full video on a mega link, dropbox or naver mybox maybe??? 🥹

  • Kuramichan7
    Kuramichan (@Kuramichan7) reported

    Is dropbox not working for anyone atm? I was JUST uploading some files and now it won't let me anymore, it keeps ending in "upload failed". It won't even let me delete folders either, it just gets stuck on a stupid endless spinning wheel or whatever. ******* hate this **** man

  • CtrlAltDwayne
    Dwayne (@CtrlAltDwayne) reported

    @swyx Brb, creating a YouTube clone. The software part is easy, it's the infrastructure for a lot of these that's the problem. Once you scale a Dropbox, Zoom or YouTube clone you start burning money fast undoubtedly.

  • mcuban
    Mark Cuban (@mcuban) reported

    @pvpandroids Just like box and Dropbox and Google gave away free storage and uber sold rides at a loss. It’s a competitive issue to start. At some point they will.

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