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Spotlight and Search function of Dropbox can't search contents in Numbers file.
Hi, Spotlight and Search function of Dropbox doesn't seem to be working fine. They can't search contents in Numbers file. For example, one of my Numbers files has "123-4567" content located in Dr...
Dropbox shouldnt be altering spotlight at all - as it has no way of doing so, its an Apple feature.
Does the same happen to files outside of the Dropbox folder or if Dropbox is not running?
Hi Jay.
I disagree with this comment as my MacBook Spotlight can search DropBox and return results of files that are online only. However, another user that has the same MacBook software, and Dropbox access is unable to search Dropbox for any files at all, online or downloaded, but he can search the local mac without any issues. If anyone since this original post does have a solution, I would be grateful.
I'm having the same issue after the recent update of Dropbox and files were moved to the folder with my name on it even though it's a shared folder. I've contacted Dropbox support and they are looking into it. It's super annoying.
