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ptetta
2 years agoHelpful | Level 6
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...
ptetta
2 years agoHelpful | Level 6
Hi Megan - I have two screen shots but don't see where/how to attache them to this message. I also don't know the version number for Dropbox, but I updated to the newest version about two weeks ago and that was when the problem started. The first screen shows a search in "This Mac" for a document with a name that contains "Budget." When I search that way, I get 1,258 results returned. The second shows the same search, but using my primary Dropbox folder. When I search that way, I get 0 results returns. This is using Finder, which is how I have always searched in Dropbox -- for more than 10 years now. This search function has been the primary advantage of Dropbox over Google Drive, which is what most of my clients use and would prefer for me to use. I have always insisted on Dropbox because it has always made it so much easier search for document. If that functionality has gone away, I have lost my main reason for not shifting to Google Drive. Can you help?
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