Onedrive search function not working (online version)

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Onedrive online App.

When opening my onedrive via webpage, the search function at the top is not working as before. Before I could start typing and the list of hits would diminish until I was left with whatever matched my search query.

There seems to be something wrong with my Onedrive folder, as the folder does not seem to be indexed any longer on the server side.

This also stops my Graph API searchfunction to work.

I can use: https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/drive/root/children to see the content of the onedrive.

But running : https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/drive/root/search(q='.xlsx') returns nothing.

From what I have been able to dig up, this is due to onedrive not indexing any of the files serverside.

Is there any solution to this? Is there a hard reset to return my onedrive to it's default state? Or am I forced to find other solutions?

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Anonymous

Hello ronron_525,

Welcome to the Microsoft community.

What I will explain to you is that the problem is not on your OneDrive folder, but on the OneDrive search service.

The problem you described that you can't search for the location of files in OneDrive (OneDrive search bar not working) is a hot issue that has recently emerged. We've received feedback from users around the world who have encountered this issue. This issue is still being investigated. It exists in OneDrive Web and OneDrive Mobile for certain users. The development team says that this is a temporary issue and will be resolved as soon as possible. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and appreciate your patience.

The Microsoft community is just a community for technical discussions, so we don't engage in development-related content, but I've found the last channel for users to submit reports and feedback on this issue that was opened by the OneDrive team.

You can take a screenshot of the issue you're encountering and provide feedback about the issue using the OneDrive link (live.com))

So that they can fully understand the full picture of the problem and summarize the various symptoms of the problem they encounter to provide a more comprehensive solution.

▲ We will continue to monitor the issue in this reply thread and share the latest progress of the issue as soon as possible.

Best regards

Ian - MSFT | Microsoft Community Support Specialist

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Anonymous

2025-07-03T13:53:49+00:00

No mine seems to hane stopped workimg again now 🤦🏼‍♂️
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Anonymous

2025-07-03T14:04:36+00:00

Mine has not worked for months and still no news about why this issue is happening or when we might have a fix?
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Anonymous

2025-07-03T14:38:02+00:00

Hello everyone

Mine started working again yesterday!

After only eight months of waiting and not a single word of explanation why or when service would resume.

So I've already transferred to Dropbox.

Appalling customer service.

kpt
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Anonymous

2025-07-03T14:41:43+00:00

I marked this reply as helpful because it made me come check the forum. After seeing others' comments, I tried to search again, and it worked! My goodness, please document whatever you guys did because it was so critical to those of us who were impacted. I was just about to take other more serious steps because not being able to search 1000s of files is like not having any files at all. Who has time to look through folder after folder as an alternative? But thanks for the fix, though!!! I still feel for those who continue to have the problem.
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