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I'm currently searching my Dropbox for a text string. I'm looking at the file on my desktop, I'm fully synced and Dropbox does not find the file when I use search. What's up!?
This seems to have fixed the 'Desktop Seach on Windows' issue by me.
Credit: Superuser.com - Windows 7 Index Search does not work in Google Drive folder
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+1 for search being very poor. Basic or Advanced search is not reliably finding by (parts of) filenames or extensions.
Search is not very poor, it doesn't work whatsoever. As Jeff, I have a folder with 4 files, I am looking at the files, all contain the term "agriculture"; I search "agriculture", it returns "NOT FOUND". This is beyond ridiculous.
I'm having the same problem. Just started about two weeks ago. It's like the indexing of my Dropbox just stopped or is corrupt.
Same issue here, started today. The only things that are showing up are those things that are deleted. I just did testing, and I was able to manually find a folder, move it to a new location (which deletes from current location) and now the only thing that will show up in the search is the deleted file in the old location. Nothing else.
Ok, so whats so great about this Dropbox community forum when there is not a single answer or response back from anyone on this issue as to how to fix it or what is being done to repair the issue. I have this same issue dating back to late September or early October too. There I feel better now, I've vented and not a single response will ever be generated to answer the issue. Thanks Dropbox tech crew!!!
Same issue. I have a folder with one file in it that contains the word "schedule." I search in that folder for schedule and receive a "no results found" message. Nor does it find the full file name. Ridiculous!
Same exact problem. I can SEE the file, I can OPEN the file, but search will not FIND the file.
Hello Dropbox, is anyone listening? If we cannot solve this, Dropbox becomes useless to me.
same exact issue, when searching for something can't find it, Yet whatever I am looking for is in the dropbox folder.
This seems to have fixed the 'Desktop Seach on Windows' issue by me.
Credit: Superuser.com - Windows 7 Index Search does not work in Google Drive folder
In short: (Detailed instructions after this)
Detailed instructions:
Please reply if this worked for you, thanks.
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