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Nancy, the "Idea" is not really what this discussion is about. 
All we want is a proper "state of the art" search feature. Do we really have to start voting for this?

You shouldn't need your customers and wait until they vote for any "idea" to implement a proper search engine. 
That's like saying "He... let's fu%/& up our search, and keep it like that until enough customers complain and vote for reverting this decision".  Is this how you make your design decisions?  Don't take me wrong: I like your "Ideas" section, but it should not hold you back from making your own sensible product decisions. 

Nancy makes a very good point. 

Dropbox promotes their "full text search" but it's a dishonest bait and switch. Dropbox is trying to sell their product by promoting their "full text search" feature while knowing that it isn't useful -- and it's especially not useful for the audience they're targeting: people who need to store / sync / work with a large number of files. What's even worse is that they used to have advanced search features and removed them. I'm going to start looking for an alternative service. I don't want to support a company that is dishonest and intentionally makes their service worse for the people who pay for it. I encourage everyone else to do the same. 

Hey, hello Dropbox!

It's 2022, not 1998!

Don't tell us that "having boolean operators" for search might sound like a good idea... We are tech-savvy paying customers,  not grandmas sharing pics from their grandchildren.

If you're not able to provide such functionalities because your search engine is too crappy, or because you are too cheap to afford for CPU resources, please let us know.

In the meantime, could you please, at least, implement booleans in file names? I don't think it might be too difficult, as I was able to do so on Windows 95 in 1998 with a PC having the computing power of a 2022 washing machine.

Thanks!

Adding my voice to this. I'm a paid subscriber, use dropbox all the time, and the lack of search functionality is ridiculous. 

Yep. Peeved about this. Let me search by extension. I want to find every file with a given extension in the Deleted Items area. I could do what I'm trying to do in ten seconds if I could type ".[file extension]" into the search bar and find every instance. Fix it please, don't make us vote!