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Spotlight Search Doesn't Link to Files in Dropbox in macOS 13 Ventura
After upgrading to macOS Ventura, I was prompted to upgrade to "Dropbox for macOS 12". I proceeded with that, it moved my Dropbox folder to ~/Library/CloudStorage and confirmed all was successful. No...
- That’s the same problem I had. I solved it by doing a complete clean install of dropbox. You may not need to do all of this, but to be safe, in Dropbox settings Selective Sync uncheck all of your folders and wait for them to be removed from your Mac. Once that’s done, unlink your Mac from Dropbox preferences. You should see the Dropbox getting started screen. Quit Dropbox and move the app to the Trash. Remove all dropbox files from ~/Library being careful to look at the path name. Only remove things that are within a Dropbox parent folder. Look in library application support, and library preferences. Empty the Trash. Restart your Mac. Reinstall Dropbox from dropbox.com. Once reinstalled, to make things faster sync only one small folder and wait for the prompt that new Dropbox for macOS 12 is available. You should see the message within a few minutes of reinstalling Dropbox. Allow it to upgrade and migrate your files to the new location. Once that’s done you can then sync all your folders. Let your Mac index itself and the problem should be solved.
I’m wasting HOURS every day trying to MANUALLY find files in Dropbox. My productivity has literally been cut in HALF since Dropbox was moved to the new location. FIX. THIS. ISSUE.
Frankly, the fact it is taking Dropbox MONTHS to figure out how to incorporate their software into OSX's new file structure is pathetic. There have been zero issues with Google Drive and I am strongly considering ditching Dropbox for Google Drive, even if I prefer Dropbox's functionality.
Even though Apple's products mainly look pretty but are buggy as hell under the hood (Spotlight, Preview are fine examples of this), this seems to be a Dropbox problem, since Google Drive seems to have no problems with this.
Hey guys, just update to macos ventura 13.3 and it will work! My spotlight is now able to search files in google drive and dropbox and I am able to open them directly from spotlight! Cheers!
Nope - this is absolutely wrong. The problem of searching within specific folders is not solved by installing 13.3... Its important to read the details of the problem. If you have 100 files on your system to search then its fine if you search the entire harddrive each time.
If you have millions of files, and a folder structure to do sub-searches in then Dropbox have provided a complete joke of a system under the current Apple OS. Does anyone want to manually look through 100,000 files to locate the intended one - when a within subfolder in dropbox search searches just 100?
jat1971, this is working for me. I can open a subfolder within Dropbox and successfully search for something within only that subfolder, either by name or text content.
The thing that is not working for me is to bring up Dropbox items in the Finder search results context menu.
