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colsar
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1 month ago

Dropbox folder missing from indexed locations for searching on Windows 10

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Rich's avatar
Rich
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1 month ago
colsar wrote:

I went to indexing options to remove dropbox from indexing and re-add it hoping it would rebuild the index. IT'S NOT THERE TO SELECT AT ALL!!

It's not listed for me either, on any of my systems, and search still works as expected. Personally, I never mess with the default indexing options and search just works.

 

  • colsar's avatar
    colsar
    New member | Level 2
    1 month ago

    It's always worked in the past, it's just recently stopped indexing dropbox. I never checked for it before so I don't know if it disappeared or if it was never there like yours!!

    • Hannah's avatar
      Hannah
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      1 month ago

      Thanks for checking that, colsar.

      Would you mind sending me a screenshot of a file in your Dropbox folder and then what you see when you search for said file through your search bar?

      Also, are you files in the Dropbox folder currently set to "available offline" or to "online-only"?

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