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Dropbox is not searchable in Mac OS Monterey 12.0.1
Dropbox files/folders are not searchable in spotlight on new MacBook Pro with M1 chip - Monterey OS 12.0.1. Have re-indexed spotlight. Have uninstalled and reinstalled Dropbox and rebooted. Have made...
I have found a solution, everyone! I hope everyone struggling with this will find this post. The problem isn't with dropbox, it's with Mac Spotlight. Which surprised me, as I always thought the finder search was separate from Spotlight, but apparently, on the back end, both are one-in-the-same. I've heard many times that re-indexing spotlight didn't work, but it does! You just have to do it a different way for everything to ACTUALLY 100% reindex.
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)
Of note, I am on Mac OS Monterey 12.6 (21G115). My dropbox version is 158.4.4564. These are both the lastest, as of now, 10.3.2022.
Hopefully this helps! Changed my life - I can work again!
I'm having trouble with this exact same issue for the past 2 weeks. These are my details:
- macOS Montery version 12.6
- MacBook Pro M1 chip, 16 inch
Just to reiterate, I type keywords into finder a many results are shown when looking through 'This Mac' is selected. However, I want to narrow down my results, to when I click to the current folder, results disappear.
Hoping to have some concrete way to deal with this as I've done what the original poster went through. Please help!
- Walter
Dropbox Staff
I am having the same issue, and even exchanged my MacBook Pro thinking that there was a bug.
14" MacBookPro with Monterey 12.5
And updated Dropbox version.
Is there any solution?- Megan
Hi MarilynRMarks, happy Friday! Let's look into this.
Can you send me a couple of screenshots recreating this behavior? You can attach them here, by responding back to me.
Keep me posted, and we'll take it from there.
- Walter
Hi all, could you try re-indexing Spotlight and let us know how it goes?
I have already tried that (and I just tried it again for second time) but it has not resolved the issue
thanks
Re-indexing is not working for me...
In Finder, select Dropbox Locations
In the search bar, search a word => No results when Search "Dropbox" is selected
Click Search This Mac => results are displayed
