Dropbox not searchable in MacOS Ventura 13.1

Hi Dave in SD, thanks for posting here! 

When you try to respond back to me, you should have a little camera-like icon. If you click on this, you should be given the ability to attach your screenshots.

Can you try this?

Thanks a bunch!

Hi

Megan,

Attached you should find 2 screen shots, the first is an image of the folder with the text I will be searching for highlighted, the second is the result of a search using that text string. 

I updated Dropbox on 2/2/23 to its latest version and I am running MacOS Ventura 13.1.

Any help will be appreciated as this update has greatly degraded the value of having dropbox integrated in to my mac.

Cheers,

Dave

Hi Megan - I have two screen shots but don't see where/how to attache them to this message. I also don't know the version number for Dropbox, but I updated to the newest version about two weeks ago and that was when the problem started.  The first screen shows a search in "This Mac" for a document with a name that contains "Budget."  When I search that way, I get 1,258 results returned.  The second shows the same search, but using my primary Dropbox folder.  When I search that way, I get 0 results returns.  This is using Finder, which is how I have always searched in Dropbox -- for more than 10 years now.  This search function has been the primary advantage of Dropbox over Google Drive, which is what most of my clients use and would prefer for me to use.  I have always insisted on Dropbox because it has always made it so much easier search for document.  If that functionality has gone away, I have lost my main reason for not shifting to Google Drive.  Can you help?

I just tried dragging and dropping my screenshot files.  Hopefully, they are readable on your end.

Actually I'm on Ventura 13.2 with an M1 iMac,  and have updated to have Dropbox under Library/CloudStorage with all files and folders available offline.

Finder search cannot find dropbox files when using Dropbox as the search start. If I search "This Mac"  they are all found. Spotlight search finds them all as well. I disconnected my computer from Dropbox, erased the folder and other associated files in Library, and then reconnected and downloaded everything. This did not help.

Hi everyone, are you experiencing the same behavior as listed in this article when searching on the new Mac OS version of the Dropbox desktop application?

Jay Your article said: "Searching through Finder will only find online-only files or folders that have been previously accessed on your device running Dropbox for macOS."

Not for me: Searching through finder will find a file I have previously opened in "This Mac", but NOT in Dropbox folder searchs.

Hi,

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

Hi, 

I've the same issue, drop box files are not accessible via spotlight search like they where before the update. 

How can i roll-back the update.

I'm using v166.4.2920

OS: Ventura 13.0

Thank you for your help dropbox community