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ptetta
Helpful | Level 6
3 years ago
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Dropbox not searchable in MacOS Ventura 13.1

Since the recent Dropbox update, I can no longer search for files in Dropbox on my Mac.  I have been using Dropbox for over 10 years and have never had this problem before.  It's making life extremel...
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    Hannah
    4 years ago

    Hey vmkirin and bri_guy, I actually moved our thread to this one, since it's about the same issue.

     

    You might want to take a look at the solution on this thread, to see if that works for you as well.

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Mona_Protea
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago

Hi,

Please give a solution ASAP to this problem that is very bothersome.

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reno08
New member | Level 2
4 years ago

Hi, 

 

I'm on macOS Ventura 13.0 and Dropbox v160.3.4650 (apparently a beta ? Is Ventura / Apple Silicon supported in mainline Dropbox these days ?)

 

In Spotlight (cmd+space) :

Searching for a file in the Dropbox folder *by name* works, but not *by content* (PDF files that should be indexed without a problem)

 

In Finder search : neither by name nor by content works in the Dropbox folder.

In the Dropbox app search : by name works, by content works for *some* (possibly older ?) files but not all.

Elsewhere on the same volume is fine.
I have tried adding then removing the Dropbox folder to the Spotlight privacy exceptions list, that didn't help.

Any clues ?

Thanks

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