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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.

ptetta's avatar
ptetta
Helpful | Level 6

I just tried dragging and dropping my screenshot files.  Hopefully, they are readable on your end.

 

 

  

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Jay
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2 years ago

Hi everyone, are you experiencing the same behavior as listed in this article when searching on the new Mac OS version of the Dropbox desktop application?

  • DHK's avatar
    DHK
    Helpful | Level 6
    2 years ago

    Jay Your article said: "Searching through Finder will only find online-only files or folders that have been previously accessed on your device running Dropbox for macOS."

    Not for me: Searching through finder will find a file I have previously opened in "This Mac", but NOT in Dropbox folder searchs.

     

     

  • Calore01's avatar
    Calore01
    Helpful | Level 6
    2 years ago

    Hi, 

    I've the same issue, drop box files are not accessible via spotlight search like they where before the update. 

    How can i roll-back the update.

    I'm using v166.4.2920

    OS: Ventura 13.0

    Thank you for your help dropbox community

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