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dragononamac
Collaborator | Level 8
2 years ago

What is going on with Dropbox on MacOS? Spotlight and Finder don't work!!

Dropbox randomly updated to some new version and said everything is moving to Library/CloudStorage or something like that, now I can't open files directly in Spotlight OR find using folder search i...
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Jay
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Hi a1a1, could you try reinstalling the Dropbox desktop application, without uninstalling it first, via this link?

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a1a1
Helpful | Level 5
2 years ago

Hi Jay,

Finally after 7 months of basically not being able to use my laptop I found the solution in another thread.

Instead of re-indexing Dropbox I had to re-index the entire hard drive.

 

From keganx: 

I have managed to fix this. (For reference, I have tried re-indexing Spotlight using command line, and does not work).

 

  1. Open System Preferences and go to Spotlight's Privacy tab.
  2. Add the entire hard disk INTO the Privacy list.
  3. Maybe wait 30s.
  4. Remove the hard disk FROM the Privacy list.

 

@davidarden also posted the solution in another Dropbox thread: https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Create-upload-and-share/Dropbox-is-not-searchable-in-Mac-OS-Monterey-12-0-1/m-p/626720/highlight/true#M58591

 

 

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