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Christian W.10's avatar
Christian W.10
Helpful | Level 5
3 years ago

How do I disable searching of file contents?

I'm looking for a jpg file somewhere in my dropbox file tree that has the word "desk" in the filename. So I search for "desk" and I get thousands of results with every photo I've ever taken that cont...
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Jay
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3 years ago

Hi Christian W.10, thanks for bringing this to our attention.

 

Currently, there isn't a method to just search for the file name of a file.

 

If you have the files syncing in the Dropbox folder on your machine, you might be able to search via Explorer/Finder, or from the Dropbox desktop application.

 

Keep me updated with any progress!

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