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Forum Discussion
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 ...
Stefanie
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffHi all,
What Ed was trying to say is that the content has to be in your Dropbox account in order for you to be able to search it. It's not sufficient to be logged into your account. Here are two ways to achieve this:
1. Instead of sharing a link to these folders with your clients, simply invite them to become a member of the folder, thus creating a shared folder. (This is what Ed meant by "share these folders")
2. If you'd like to continue sharing links instead of folders, that's ok too. In that case, the recipient of the link would first have to add the contents of the link to their Dropbox account. They can do so by clicking on the "Download" button and selecting to "add to Dropbox". Once the data is in their Dropbox account, they will be able to search it.
To sum up, it's currently only possible to search data that is in your Dropbox account. It's not possible to search the contents of shared links. If this is something you'd like to see in addition to the current search functionality, I'd be happy to forward this to our development team.
