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Authentech's avatar
Authentech
Helpful | Level 5
5 years ago

Search doesn't find all results.

Searching for folders which are clearly there returns no results. I am searching for a specific word which is part of multiple folders but they do not all appear in the results. If I search multi...
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  • Authentech's avatar
    Authentech
    5 years ago

    So it's actually started working now.

    Perhaps it was a delay in indexing at Dropbox side?

    Seems odd though, it doesn't usually take very long and this was all day.

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jamestoothill
New member | Level 2
5 years ago

Also having this problem, I can't find any files created after midday yesterday..

 

Looks like an indexing problem on dropbox's side? but causing a big headache for us, as we use the search in an API.  Any idea when it'll be resolved?

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