OneDrive search not working

I've finally accepted that MS are incompetent and simply can't fix their own software. Try to get them to do something about it was doing my head in.

So I decided to give up on MS and find an acceptable solution myself. This is what I've come up with and it works a treat. It finds every file I search for.

On windows, I downloaded a free app called 'Everything'. Direct the search to the OneDrive directory and it does what it's name suggests and finds everything

On my Android phone I use 'Samsung My Files'. The search function also finds everything after directing it to the OneDrive directory.

I now have confidence I can search Onedrive and find what I'm looking for. No thanks to MS.

How can this still be on open issue since 2019????

This is a file system that can't search by filename!!!! That is core required functionality.

I can literally see the file and search does not return it :(

It's been nearly two years since this major issue was posted here, and still no fix. I dropped my DropBox account a couple months ago which I've had for years in favor of OneDrive (since I found it was included with my Office sub), and now find that I can't search at all. For anything. That's absolutely ridiculous!

OP here with a slight enhancement of your point: the problem was reported by me in January. Of 2019.

In view of the fact that search obviously doesnt work (it has been on and off for me for months, and look at all the people with the same issue, plus, they are aware and working on it!) you would think they would take the search panel away. This is a huge problem for people who rely on OneDrive.