OneDrive search not working

Anonymous
2019-01-18T18:32:33+00:00

The search function in the top left doesn't return any results. It used to return results if the given search term appeared in either a file name or the body of a file.

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  1. Anonymous
    2019-09-03T08:18:47+00:00

    Have the same problem

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  2. Anonymous
    2019-04-04T15:55:33+00:00

    I have the same issue. I'm trying to search for a file by the name. Older files I've uploaded to OneDrive are showing up in the search, but any files I've uploaded in the last 4 months are not. The file is clearly there though. 

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-01-02T19:50:28+00:00

    In 2023, onedrive still could NOT support simple search.

    This make onedrive useless,

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-11-30T14:22:07+00:00

    Can't believe Microsoft hasn't fixed this after all this time and with so many users having the issue. Just throwing mine on the pile. I can see the files I'm searching for in the folder, but the one drive search can't find them. If I search by name, nothing appears. If I search by extension, the results don't include the file I'm looking at in the folder. It took me an hour to find a file I needed by manually searching.

    The renaming/move files trick just causes a reindexing. Microsoft, at one point, let you manually do that for outlook. You could just delete the index file and tell it to rebuild the search index. How about adding the same functionality for one drive so everything would get reindexed, not just what we happen to notice is broken. Come on Microsoft. Shameful level of support on this.

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-07-12T00:07:19+00:00

    I found a fantastic workaround... I switched to Google Dive

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