OneDrive search not working

I follow in the footsteps of a genius who discovered the workaround. You create a new high level folder (i.e. under OneDrive), name it whatever, then drag all other folders into it. This is easy via ‘select all’. I waited an bit, then dragged them back into their original location - low and behold problem solved. I don’t know how often this process needs to be repeated but so far it’s worked for several weeks. Good luck!

Thanks Andrew. Like everyone, this is beyond frustrating. After the news about the Optus hack, I can't help but wonder if we're at risk of losing everything in the OneDrive Cloud or it being hacked. Microsoft have shown (without any doubt) just how incompetent they are at not being able to fix a program that the developed. I have no confidence that their cyber security is any better than their pathetic search function in OneDrive.

Now that I've got that off my chest, can I ask a question of you re the work around? I have all my files in hundreds of folders and sub folders. Do I need to make one folder then transfer every file out of every folder and sub folder into the newly created folder to get the search function to work? Do I then have to transfer them all back again?

Thanks, Greg

Thanks! I appreciate your reply. I'll give it a try.

Yes, it’s annoying but the solution is simple i.e. create a new high-level folder and drag all files into it, then after a while reverse the procedure. Notwithstanding this fix, it would be better for Microsoft to address the problem rather requiring OneDrive users to develop workarounds.

It's now 2022, and this is still a problem. You can literally look at a file name that has a string, then search for the file, and OneDrive will not return any results. Absolutely ridiculous.