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Brass Contributor

Nov 07, 2021

Windows 11 - File Explorer - Search Contents fails

Yesterday I updated my 3 day old laptop to Windows 11. Today I moved some files into the My Documents folder, then I went to the upper right corner of File Explorer and entered the word I wanted to ...

ShephaliD

Copper Contributor

Mar 06, 2023

DBP-User

Info in below link may help. I had to play around with how to access my folders in different cloud apps such as dropbox from Home to be able to use search functionality. If i tried searching by opening a dropbox folder shortcut , the search function didn't generate anything, but when i searched through File Explorer-Home-Dropbox-{Folder name}, it worked.

Basically click on Search in the taskbar, choose File Explorer, which will open up the Home window pane on the left and will show Home icon and word Home on the top. You can scroll down in the window pane on the left to whichever folder you are trying to search the doc in , click on that folder, then type the word on top right in "search Home" area and it will pull all the relevant docs.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/find-and-open-file-explorer-ef370130-1cca-9dc5-e0df-2f7416fe1cb1

AlbertRG

Brass Contributor

Mar 06, 2023

Well several updates later and not much improvement. I did find that clearing the search memory after each search did bring some improvement. Furthermore searches in One Drive also seemed to work. Alas One Drive does not allow content search. But after the most recent update (last week) I turned off indexing and lo behold content searching seems to work. Search is somewhat slower than in the past but finally I can search my work for references again. Why this had to take 18 months I don't know, but there you go.

leehsoonyahoocom
Copper Contributor
Mar 06, 2023
Thank you for your kind reply. However, DocFetcher is doing a great job solving my problem, and I like the way it gives me a preview of the files that has met my search criteria.