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While we can’t guarantee any specific features or timelines, we will respond to every suggestion that gets at least 500 votes. Thanks for joining our community and helping improve OneDrive.
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onedrive the search function is really bad--don't want to search everything--what is the fix
make the search work like explorer search
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mimeType
It would be great to search files by mimeType!!! It will close several case to search music, photos, video and any other types at one request...
3 votes -
Add a more sophisticated search features
Allow searching for a file type in a selected directory rather than "search everywhere"
4 votes -
Some people never mature it seems. Maturity is the ability to understand, have wisdom and when a person is prejudice he is not understanding
People who reject or hurt significantly another person on purpose is not wise and is considered immature. Those who continue to be violent and or corrupt have to open their hearts and minds or will be rightly dealt with to stop their advancements.
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Sorting files
Hi
I really suggest you to keep the last sorting view in each folder because every time I need to find a specific file I have to change the sorting view.
Thank you.Greetings,
Antonio Tamaríz18 votes -
Feedback
I wish one drive had a video folder like shoebox does. I would like to fund my videos fast
2 votes -
Finding docs
Make finding documents easier by allowing single search throughout all files in a single drive.
4 votes -
Enable spotlight search on Bookmarks
Pls enable spotlight search to allow the user to search bookmarks, reading list & history? I have numerous of the above items & cannot use them as I can't search for them. Thanks
1 vote -
Add search capability inside "Move" functionality
Often when I want to upload a file or move one, the destination folder is deep in my folder structure (or I can't remember exactly where it is). In Google Drive, when choosing to upload or move, I can search my drive to find and select the destination folder. This saves A LOT of time. Thanks for your consideration.
2 votes -
Expand and document the search syntax
I love using search on OneDrive to search within documents, (tagged) images and even within the contents of the OneNote notebooks. Although it's great to use full-text search, there are a lot of useless results because of it when you have a large set of documents.
I noticed that phrase searching works! (a search for a phrase between quotes) but there isn't a documented list of the search syntax. I would suggest to expand the (advanced) search syntax to at least enable excluding specific folders, photos or specific filetypes.
Search in OneDrive already is quite powerful but it would be…
21 votes -
Please add the ability to restrict the OneDrive document searches to file names only.
Please add the ability to restrict the OneDrive document searches to file names only. The search appears to search the entire content of documents which is fine for some cases but there are times I am looking for something only in the name of a file.
2 votes -
Use voice recognition to extract text from audio and video to feed the search engine
Onedrive search capability is quite impressive, but it does not find content within audio and video files. Voice recognition technology could extract the text within video and audio and feed the search engine. You could find songs typing the lyrics, or find family video using a conversation.
26 votes -
Make sync status available as property in Windows search
When having a large collection of files/folders you sync, it is currently not possible to see at a glance which files have been synchronized and which not.
My idea is to make the sync status available to Windows search as a property. This way it would be very easy to make a search for synchronized/unsynchronized files.
2 votes -
Please make the initial search results shown as a dropdown in a sizable window or provide some way to make it wider.
Please make the initial search results shown as a dropdown in a sizable window or provide some way to make it wider. At the present time it is too small to display many long file names.
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Show folders in search results
It would be nice to be able to search for whole folders using the search function. For example, I might want to find the folder for a project I'm working on with a group of friends to find all that information at once, not just specific files.
Thanks!
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5 votes
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Maybe a search in each document?
I find that it would b very helpful if we could find and search specific key words so that us consumers can find specific key words easily and efficiently
5 votes -
Feedback- need search ability
Hi OneDrive team. Is there a search function available on the iPad version of OneDrive App? If not, it would be handy.
1 vote -
Display search results from OneDrive and PCs merged
Windows Search is indexing local files, OneDrive is indexing cloud files. Based on the feature that can fetch "any files on a pc" through OneDrive, it would be completely crazy to be able to search all our files, cloud and PCs from the OneDrive web site.
I mean I'm on the go, using my tablet connected on the internet. I know I have a file on my computer at home somewhere that I need but I don't know where. If I search for the file on OneDrive, it would find it on my computer and gives me the ability to…
6 votes