OneDrive search not working

In my case, I sync all my data with OneDrive, including things like template paths (Office) and project files (Scrivener). Moving all of that to a different directory would have a major impact on the applications using those paths. And my experience with OneDrive resync is that it takes days to resync everything, and OneDrive will attempt to resync everything after a move as described. So the only way I'd dare do this would be while keeping the sync with my local system disabled, and after the move-index-move, I still expect that OneDrive will attempt a full local resync.

In my case, the entire procedure required less than 30 minutes.

At the end of the process, all of my files, templates, etc. were back in their original locations—so, apart from that half-hour, the workaround had zero effect on any of the applications that rely on specific file paths.

The Microsoft support person I dealt with had this to say:

Wow great workaround :)

I'm glad that the feature has been restored on your end with the workaround and will be sure to notify the engineering team of this.

We will endeavor to extensively test this and ensure the use case on multiple scenarios.

Again, it worked for me—quick, easy, and problem free.

Great, but this is just a workaround where Microsoft should provide a real fix where users should don't need to take action.

Oh, 100 percent. It's absurd that such a basic, known issue has gone unsolved for so long.

In the meantime, though, I'm very glad for the workaround.

It's definitely great that this workaround is available. One would hope, though, that M$ will create a UI function to give the index a kick without having to move the entire contents, twice.