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ptetta
Helpful | Level 6
2 years ago

Dropbox not searchable in MacOS Ventura 13.1

Since the recent Dropbox update, I can no longer search for files in Dropbox on my Mac.  I have been using Dropbox for over 10 years and have never had this problem before.  It's making life extremel...
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  • Hannah's avatar
    Hannah
    3 years ago

    Hey vmkirin and bri_guy, I actually moved our thread to this one, since it's about the same issue.

     

    You might want to take a look at the solution on this thread, to see if that works for you as well.

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bri_guy
Helpful | Level 6

My issue is with searching the Dropbox folder in Finder, as previously stated - I'm sure this is connected to Spotlight somehow, but I'm not trying to search directly via the Spotlight (CMD-Spacebar) interface.

 

I have definitely opened the Dropbox folder in Finder many times since the update so I don't think that's the issue.

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Hannah
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3 years ago

Hey vmkirin and bri_guy, I actually moved our thread to this one, since it's about the same issue.

 

You might want to take a look at the solution on this thread, to see if that works for you as well.

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    bri_guy
    Helpful | Level 6
    3 years ago

    This solution worked for me, thanks.

  • garethmckinley's avatar
    garethmckinley
    New member | Level 2
    2 years ago

    Just upgraded to a new MB Air M2 with 2TB SSD, and was having this same issue...this fix is clear ly described and works 100% (takes some time (ie multiple hours) to reindex dropbox and main Documents folders (over 1TB of files)

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