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MarSD
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4 years ago
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Searching for keyword only brings up files that contain the word in the name

Hi, I am a longtime Business Dropbox user and everything worked fine until we upgraded to Win11 on our computer. When I search for a  file(s) containing a certain keyword it now only shows some of the documents that have that search item in the file name or as locked PDF files and not it's PPTX documents. Before it would show all files containing that keyword in the document texts.
Can anyone assist with this issue, please?

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  • Walter's avatar
    Walter
    4 years ago
    Thanks for the additional screenshot MarSD - much appreciated. 

    Can you please check if this is happening with files outside your Dropbox folder as well?

    Also, have you enabled the option to search the content of your files on your Windows computer? 

    Note that if you need assistance on how to do this,  you can use a web search according to your computer's OS. 

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    Walter
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    4 years ago
    Glad to hear this helped and thanks for keeping us in the loop too MarSD

    See you around the Community and take care!

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