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CHbks
Explorer | Level 4
4 days ago

Searching for files that are available offline in my File Explorer doesn't return any results.

I recently bought a new computer with Windows 11 pre-installed. As I have done many times before, I installed Dropbox and synced all my documents to be available offline on the new computer, which is...
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CHbks
Explorer | Level 4
3 days ago

At the suggestion of the Best Buy Geek Squad, I deleted all my files and re-downloaded them to a folder inside the Windows Documents folder, and now File Explorer is able to find my files via Search as it has always done. 

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