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How to search a file/folder with the name containing a hyphen ("-")?
I found that Dropbox treats hyphens as spaces when searching for a file/folder. So if I have a file named "a-b-c", it cannot be easily found because Dropbox treats the query as "a b c", which reveals...
Hannah
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorHey Herman T.1, thanks for bringing this to our attention.
Can you just clarify if you're using the search function on our website or the mobile app?
And say you search for file 'a-b-c', using the hyphens, while searching. Does the desired file/folder not come up at all in the results?
If you're on the website, please try from a different browser or an incognito/private browsing window, to see if there's a difference.
Let me know how it goes.
Can you just clarify if you're using the search function on our website or the mobile app?
And say you search for file 'a-b-c', using the hyphens, while searching. Does the desired file/folder not come up at all in the results?
If you're on the website, please try from a different browser or an incognito/private browsing window, to see if there's a difference.
Let me know how it goes.
It happens to both Google Chrome and the Dropbox android app. This is not any browser issues. Depending on how many files/folders matching the result, it may or may not come up on the result.
