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aroberts
New member | Level 2
4 months ago

No Spotlight results for folders on Dropbox with Sequoia

Since I upgraded to Sequoia 15.1 on my Mac, folders and documents on Dropbox are no longer shown. What can I do?
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aroberts
New member | Level 2
2 months ago

You have to actually delete Dropbox in the Mac privacy settings, wait 10 seconds, and then add it back.  It will then permanently index all of Dropbox.  It has worked ever since.

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mat060
New member | Level 2
26 days ago

Hi Arobert. Delete Dropbox from where exactly in the Privacy Settings?

I deleted it from the 'Full Disk Access' section and then added it back after 10+ seconds but still no results are coming up on spotlight (CMD + SPACE)

I also added it to Spotlight Privacy settings and the removed it after a 10+ seconds, but still nothing.

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