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JVN
Explorer | Level 4
2 years ago
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Increase the filetypes considered in full text search

Today's Dropbox web and Desktop interfaces for full search support just certain filetypes (.doc .docx .docm .gdoc .gsheet .jpg .paper .papert .pdf .png .ppt .pptx .pptm .gif .gslide .rtf .tiff .txt ....
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    simonDBX
    2 years ago

    JVN Thanks for providing this detailed feedback! I'll bring this back to the team for consideration. Are there any other file types other than: .bib, .tex, .bbl that you want to see included?

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brian_g
New member | Level 1
10 months ago

Hello simonDBX , thanks for the reply!

Is there a business reason why you currently don't allow the indexing of human-readable text files like markdown? No changes to the indexer are required, I'd think.

Sounds like an easy win to me and nicely fits in with your current introduction of image text recognition, which addresses exactly the same business case. 

And anyway the stale indexes and resulting search errors need some solution. We cannot prevent users from changing file types 😕

Best regards, Brian

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