onedrive search bar not working in any device.

Anonymous
2025-01-13T05:42:03+00:00

Search bar is not working in apps and website, not results of anything. Even new uploaded files, this is happening after recent design update. Any help?

Is a personal onedrive paid account.

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-04-24T20:02:32+00:00

    It is embarrassing and disgusting that Microsoft is doing this to its PAID subscribers... I am honestly at a loss for words that this is not fixed yet... MSFT is a 3 trillion dollar company.. Note I didn't say billion, I said trillion.... And it can't provide a proper index search on Onedrive??? Something that it always provided to its users for years?? It is depriving users of a basic cloud need and leaving Onedrive is not simple given the size of customer storage, which is my issue... I would have already left 4 months ago... And MSFT knows this, which makes it even more disgusting and despicable

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-02-18T01:03:23+00:00

    hmm. i have the same issue. and i pay for this service yet they just close tickets? wtf

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-06-19T01:09:26+00:00

    Dear Onedrive PM at Microsoft,

    please treat this product defect more serious. The fact that search in OneDrive (consumer version) is unexpectedly broken (i.e. the respective MS Graph API does not return any data, so search is broken on all devices/apps) has brought me personally into a critical situation: I couldn't find past medical records (that I had archived in OneDrive so that I can access them on any device) during an emergency situation. So I couldn“t answer important questions when I was in ER.

    I am sure some of the other people who have been commenting here had their very own bad experiences when they found out that their OneDrive had become a blackbox. Like unable to find the PDF with the flight ticket or hotel booking, etc.

    Please, please, please do:

    • A) inform your users proactively about the product defect (i.e. banner message in the OneDrive WebUI, mobile apps, etc with link to a KB article or so). This at least allows users to better deal with the situation and avoid unexpected time sensitive situations.
    • B) give a clear ETA when this defect will be fixed

    (I will also do my best and bring this to the attention of the press and I encourage others here to do the same - go ahead and report this problem and the poor support responses to computer magazines, tech news websites, etc).

    Thank you.

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-02-22T10:13:44+00:00

    I'm about to do the same. A couple of weeks ago I received a reply telling me that the devs are aware of this issue and working on it. Unfortunately, after several updates of the app, still no improvement.

    And then there's the Copilot **** which is forced down your throat to justify a price increase.

    I just need to make time to migrate my data to, preferably, a non-US cloud...

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  5. Anonymous
    2025-02-21T19:51:11+00:00

    I cancelled my subscription. This issue has been going on for years now. Search functionality is atrocious. Moved everything to Dropbox which works flawlessly.

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