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March 26[edit]

Dropbox String-Matching Algorithm[edit]

Dear Wikipedians:

I used to search for my pictures and videos by doing "2014-04" to pull up all all pictures and videos in April, 2014 for example. This used to work beautifully.

Today I did the same search again, and finds that Dropbox is breaking the 2014 and 04 apart and coming up with many irrelevant results such as 2014-05-03 12.04.05.jpg!!! It's driving me nuts!!!

How do I get the old, exact string-matching algorithm back?

Thanks!

184.144.50.168 (talk) 13:52, 26 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I added a title OldTimeNESter (talk) 13:57, 26 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! OP 184.144.50.168 (talk) 15:16, 26 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

To clarify, are you doing the search within Dropbox or using an external search tool, such as Google, with the "site:dropbox.com" clause ? (If not, try using Google that way and see if it works any better.) StuRat (talk) 06:19, 27 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks StuRat for your response. I am doing the search within Dropbox and it seems that recently they have changed the algorithm behind their filename-searching and matching. 184.144.50.168 (talk) 01:11, 28 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

OK. Did you try Google, as suggested ? (Annoyingly, Google also feels free to change how their search works, often making it worse, without telling anyone, but hopefully they didn't mess up this yet.) StuRat (talk) 01:54, 28 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Just tried it, it doesn't work. The search either returned public Dropbox corporate documents, or returned nothing (with the search string "site:dropbox.com/home" clause. But thanks for all your help! 184.144.50.168 (talk) 20:21, 28 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Oh! What a joy! The search algorithm reverted to the old one! 184.144.50.168 (talk) 20:28, 28 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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