Hi Dropbox community! I'm a product manager at Dropbox working on the search experience on dropbox.com. Paid users already have access to advanced search features like full-text search, OCR (searching for text within images), full-text search, and image search (searching for objects within images). However, this can often return a lot of results leading to a poor experience having to wade through and find exactly what you're looking for.
So, we're happy to announce that we're adding a few new operators to help you retrieve your files/folders more quickly:
- title:(new lead) => See results with only the specific words in title of the file
- title:"new lead" => See results with exact phrase match in title of the file. Note that quotes only work with title searches and can't be used to match on content
- type:image => Filter results by a certain types like image, video, document, spreadsheet, etc.
- type:jpg => Filter results by a certain types like file extension like jpg, png, docx, etc.
- before:2022-01-01 => Allows you to see all content before a certain date. Uses YYYY-MM-DD format.
- after:2022-01-01 => Allows you to see all content after a certain date. Uses YYYY-MM-DD format.
- lead AND new => AND operators will show results that contain both words.
- lead OR new => OR operators will show results that contain either words.
To use these operators, login to Dropbox.com, click on the searchbox at the top, and start typing your query. You can learn more about our operators on our help center article here: https://help.dropbox.com/view-edit/search
Note that there are some limitations:
- This feature is Web only (for now)
- Searches may return inaccurate results for contents of a file, certain images, and Paper docs if you're using the old release of Dropbox Paper.
- Quotes will only work on file titles, not matches on content (for now)
Try it out and let us know what you think!
Thanks for your patience as we ship new features to improve your overall Dropbox experience!
Rhut
KevinAtDropboxDropbox Staff
