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mat060
New member | Level 2
11 months ago

Searching files in Spotlight within Dropbox on my macOS Sequoia doesn't show results.

Ever since I installed Sequoia and the latest Dropbox version I'm not able to search files stored on the Dropbox Folder. In previous Sequoia/Dropbox versions I had always been able to search files within the dropbox folder by just using Spotlight (CMD+Space) at any moment. Now it's not working.

I have tried the following but nothing works:

- Adding the Dropbox Folder to Spotlight Privacy settings and the removed it after a 10+ seconds to rebuild the Spotlight Index. Didn't work.

- Deleting Dropbox from the 'Full Disk Access' section and then added it back after 10+ seconds but still no results are coming up on spotlight (CMD + SPACE). Didn't work.

In the other hand, using the magnifying glass on a Finder's window it does search for files within the Dropbox Folder.

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