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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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mat060
New member | Level 2
26 days ago

My issue is slightly different, not in Finder but in the overlay CMD+SPACE spotlight. 

Ever since I installed Sequoia and the latest Dropbox version I'm not able to search files stored on the Dropbox Folder. In previous Sequoia/Dropbox versions I had always been able to search files within the dropbox folder by just using Spotlight (CMD+Space) at any moment. Now it's not working.

Using the magnifying glass on a Finder's window it does search/finds files within the Dropbox Folder.

I have tried the following but nothing works:

- Adding the Dropbox Folder to Spotlight Privacy settings and the removed it after a 10+ seconds to rebuild the Spotlight Index. Didn't work.

- Deleting Dropbox 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). Didn't work.

Is there any other trick I can try?

I would appreciate it. Thanks!

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