Search by file name instead of full-text search

YES.  Why, or why doesn't Dropbox listen to the scores of people who complain about this?? I also agree with others who note that with each added "feature," actual functionality seems to go down....

From the perspective of someone dealing with proprietary files of mine and my clients, being able to disable that would make them me and my clients feel better.

I look to dropbox for file storage firstly. I understand it makes it very easy to find files but not everyone wants that.

Thank you.

I want to archive and delete all files in our Dropbox account whose filenames begin with the word "CONFIDENTIAL".  Would have been a snap on Dropbox 5 years ago.  I'm here now because I Googled "how to search for filenames in Dropbox".

Disappointing.

Why does Dropbox keep ignoring users’ functionality requests but add features nobody asked for?

This has my vote. Searching by file name should be the default. Since we’re in the 21st-century, it’s about time basic Boolean search syntax be supported. 

• title:(new lead) => See results with only the specific words in title of the file
• title:"new lead" => See results with exact phrase match in title of the file.  Note that quotes only work with title searches and can't be used to match on content
• type:image => Filter results by a certain types like image, video, document, spreadsheet, etc.
• type:jpg => Filter results by a certain types like file extension like jpg, png, docx, etc.
• before:2022-01-01 => Allows you to see all content before a certain date.  Uses YYYY-MM-DD format.
• after:2022-01-01 => Allows you to see all content after a certain date.  Uses YYYY-MM-DD format.
• lead AND new => AND operators will show results that contain both words.
• lead OR new =>  OR operators will show results that contain either words.

To use these operators, login to Dropbox.com, click on the searchbox at the top, and start typing your query.  You can learn more about our operators on our help center article here:  https://help.dropbox.com/view-edit/search

Note that there are some limitations:

  - This feature is Web only (for now)

  - Searches may return inaccurate results for contents of a file, certain images, and Paper docs if you're using the old release of Dropbox Paper.

  - Quotes will only work on file titles, not matches on content (for now -- we have this on our backlog)

Try it out and let us know what you think!

Thanks for your patience as we ship new features to improve your overall Dropbox experience!

Rhut

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