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Dropbox not searchable in MacOS Ventura 13.1
Since the recent Dropbox update, I can no longer search for files in Dropbox on my Mac. I have been using Dropbox for over 10 years and have never had this problem before. It's making life extremel...
I found a solution on this forum.
This solution came from davidarden. It worked for me. I can now search my Dropbox folders when I couldn't before (on MacOS 13.1)
Tutorial is here on apple's forums: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253479408
Just giving credit where credit is due.
In case that goes away, instructions are also listed below.
- Open System Preferences and go to Spotlight's Privacy tab.
- Add the entire hard disk INTO the Privacy list.
- Maybe wait 30s.
- Remove the hard disk FROM the Privacy list.
Spotlight will re-index. After finish re-indexing, the search in folder works for me.
(To see if Spotlight is indexing, use Command+Space to invoke Spotlight, and type in something. Wait a second. You should see a progress bar to show indexing progress)
Jay
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffHi ptetta, we appreciate your sharing of a solution that worked for you.
To everyone else in this thread, could you try these steps and let us know if the issue persists afterwards?
Hi,
I have tried the suggested solution and it seems to work.
First I tried to add then remove Dropbox from the Spotlight list, but that didn't work.
Then I added and removed HD and now it seems to work.
Thanks to all!
Wordked for me on 2 Macs, both on Ventura 13.2. Thanks so much!
Hi Jay & @ptetta,This solved my issue. Thank you for discovering this fix, my life has become much easier (or at least back to what it was before this nonsense!!)
Cheers,
Dave Cowan
It made me happy to fix this problem! Such a headache.
