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jasfoto
New member | Level 2
2 months ago

Searching IPTC keywords on the website: Why does Dropbox only kinda work?

Trying to use DB to store photos that have IPTC keywords applied to them.  All information I find seems to say this should work, but when I do a search for a keyword only a few of the images with that keyword end up showing as search results.  (Doing this via a browser window with Mac Safari)

Anyone have experience with this?  Why does this only kinda work?  It doesn't make sense to me and is very frustrating!  Am I doing something wrong?

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    Walter
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    2 months ago

    Hey jasfoto - thanks for bringing this to our attention. 

    How exactly did you upload those files in the first place? Also, just to make sure we've got this right, can you try clearing your browser's cache and using another web browser to do this and let us know if you get the same results?

    Thanks you!

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