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OneDrive Search File Contents
OneDrive is no longer searching file contents. I used to get search results from file contents before but all of a sudden it's showing results only if it matches the filename. What could be the issue? Pls help
Update: Microsoft has finally fixed this issue. I'm getting my search results as expected. Others, pls share your experience.
csnarain How are you running the search? Via the web client? On a mobile device? Or are you relying on desktop sync (Windows or Mac)?
Have you tried any of the standard trouble shooting steps?
Mike WilliamsI'm using the web client
- Any help on this? I'm still not able to search any file contents. Only filenames. No clue on what's going on.
- That’s it, you got it perfectly right. I’ve moved to Google Drive already.
Cheers!
- I asked MS about it and they know about it https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/fixes-or-workarounds-for-recent-issues-in-onedrive-36110213-f3f6-490d-8cb7-3833539def0b?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US It's extremely frustrating that they can break something that worked, and take 2 months and counting to have no idea how long they need to restore it.
hn_GBThanks for notifying me on this issue. Yes, it's indeed frustrating. Also as Microsoft points out, searching from one's computer (desktop/laptop) is not a workaround. I have TB's of data in my OneDrive and I don't maintain any indexes in my computer. I always rely on Onedrive's Mobile/Web interfaces and it's indexing service for my search queries.
Is there any progress in this error? I'm having the same problem on onedrive web and one drive app on ios.
Is there realy so many months no good search on Onedrive??
- Is Microsoft listening? More and more customers have started reporting this and the experience is becoming annoying day by day.
csnarain Same here. It used to be good, but now it is literally non existent here.
I'm having the same problem. I cannot search inside PDFs files. I'm using OneDrive Web. Google Drive is able to do so. This is a real pain point, as I was considering subscribing to Office 365 but I'll wait until this problem is resolved. I have a lot of files, content search is essential.
csnarain Please please let us know when this is going to be fixed. It really is a non-starter for me to beginning moving all of my files over to OneDrive if I cannot search them by keywords in their content. Thank you.
vhutheesing I have no clue. Like you and many others, I too am waiting for a fix from Microsoft. For whatever unknown reason, there has been dead silence from Microsoft on this. I really don't know how to bring this to their attention.
Guys,
Looks like Microsoft finally fixed this. My search results are working as expected.
- Same problem here on Android client! And I have tested on Dropbox with the same files and worked fine, searching file contents. So it's difficult to keep onedrive going this way, besides it's cache problem that demands me to clear it now-and-then.
