Did you update your Dropbox client yet (Mac)?

Generally, it seems stable for me. But there is a curious problem I have come across with the spotlight index.

For files in the new Dropbox location, it appears the spotlight index is not available to other apps?

For example, I have a PDF in /Users/[username]/Library/CloudStorage/Dropbox/

This PDF:

  • file name does return in a Spotlight search
  • filename doesn’t return in a search via Alfred (Alfred settings include that location. If I move the file to a different location, Alfred finds it)
  • doesn’t match a ‘contents’ search in a Hazel rule (if I run the same rule on the same file in a different location, works fine)

Took me a while to identify. No idea if it’s a Dropbox problem, or a limitation of Apple’s new approach to cloud providers.