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Dennis H.9's avatar
Dennis H.9
New member | Level 1
10 years ago

No search box for a shared file?

When I share a file with someone - and they follow the emailed link, they do not have a way of search that file. There is not search option like there is when I go to the files in my dropbox. Am I ...
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Ed's avatar
Ed
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9 years ago

I think there are two different things being asked here:

1 - Ability to search within file from the preview (assuming you're clicking on the link and viewing a text file on web?)

You can use the browser search for that. Otherwise you can open the original file (not the preview) and do a search within its specified software (Adobe, Ms Word, etc).

2 - Ability to search for files within a folder. In this case, if you're using the desktop client (www.dropbox.com/downloading) you should be able to use your system Finder/Explorer to perform the search within that folder. This isn't native from Dropbox.

Let me know if I'm missing something here. 

Thanks

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