Dropbox enhances search across web and desktop apps

Dropbox enhances search beyond spider web and desktop apps

Become prepare for faster search with improved filtering and sorting options

If you're annihilation similar me, y'all probably have an inordinate number of files and documents scattered across your cloud storage. Keeping runway of all the files and folders tin exist daunting, but Dropbox hopes to make that more manageable with a slew of more powerful search features.

First and foremost, Dropbox is making search on desktop every bit useful as its web and mobile apps.

Currently, Dropbox on Windows and macOS works by creating a folder directory that syncs with its service. The Dropbox icon in the Windows organisation tray or macOS bill of fare bar shows the sync status and lets you access settings.

Now, Dropbox will permit you search your files through that icon. Plus, search isn't express to the files synced to your computer — you'll see everything in your Dropbox account, even things you chose not to sync.

Dropbox Professional person and Business organisation users will likewise accept admission to the visitor's advanced search feature that parses the text within documents and images and returns relevant search results related to that content.

Along with improvements to desktop search, Dropbox is improving its website search. When users search for files in Dropbox's web app, they'll have admission to file type filtering, which lets them search specifically for images, documents, PDFs or whatever other blazon of file. Search volition also have more avant-garde sorting options, so you tin come across your newest files or your nigh recently edited documents with a click. Avant-garde sorting will be coming to Dropbox soon.

On meridian of all this, Dropbox says its refined and optimized search significantly over the last year. Results on its website load up to 65 percent faster than before.

These Dropbox search enhancements are available now. If y'all don't have Dropbox for desktop, y'all tin can download it for free hither.