Need to see if your shared folder is taking up space on your dropbox 👨‍💻? Find out how to check here.

Forum Discussion

bezkancerogenov's avatar
bezkancerogenov
New member | Level 1
9 months ago
Solved

No search by content of Paper documents

Hi!
I was an active user of Dropbox Paper for many years and I have many important documents stored there.

Previously, there was a keyword search function in search for the entire contents of all files. After the latest change, the search only searches by document name.

If there is an alternative way to search or the feature was disabled permanently (but why?).

 

Dropbox Paper
Preview
  • Walter's avatar
    Walter
    9 months ago

    Hi bezkancerogenov - sorry to hear you're having issues with searching your Dropbox Paper docs based on their content and not their names.

    Just note that this feature is available to the Dropbox Plus, Family, Professional, Essentials, Standard, Business, Advanced, Business Plus, and Enterprise plans at the moment, so if you're on the Basic plan it's normal that you can't use it. 

    I hope this helps!

3 Replies

  • Walter's avatar
    Walter
    Icon for Dropbox Community Moderator rankDropbox Community Moderator
    2 months ago

    Hey kimimoore1028 - there has been a change since the original post here and this feature is not available to Dropbox Plus at this time, only Dropbox Professional, Essentials, Standard, Business, Advanced, Business Plus, and Enterprise plans. 

    I hope this clarifies matters and please let me know if you have any follow up questions. 

  • kimimoore1028's avatar
    kimimoore1028
    New member | Level 2
    2 months ago

    We have Dropbox Plus but Dropbox Paper still searches only document titles, not content. Do you have a solution? Thanks. 

  • Walter's avatar
    Walter
    Icon for Dropbox Community Moderator rankDropbox Community Moderator
    9 months ago

    Hi bezkancerogenov - sorry to hear you're having issues with searching your Dropbox Paper docs based on their content and not their names.

    Just note that this feature is available to the Dropbox Plus, Family, Professional, Essentials, Standard, Business, Advanced, Business Plus, and Enterprise plans at the moment, so if you're on the Basic plan it's normal that you can't use it. 

    I hope this helps!

About Delete, edit, and organize

Solve issues with deleting, editing, and organizing files and folders in your Dropbox account with support from the Dropbox Community.

The Dropbox Community team is active from Monday to Friday. We try to respond to you as soon as we can, usually within 2 hours.

If you need more help you can view your support options (expected response time for an email or ticket is 24 hours), or contact us on X, Facebook or Instagram.

For more info on available support options for your Dropbox plan, see this article.

If you found the answer to your question in this Community thread, please 'like' the post to say thanks and to let us know it was useful!