To find content in Dropbox Dash:
- Log in to dash.ai.
- If you’re using the desktop app, press control-shift-e (Windows) or command-shift-e (macOS) to open the app window.
- Enter your search term, question, or phrase in the search bar.
- Notes:
- Dash uses text from titles, content, and your recent interactions to quickly rank relevant results for you while you type. Select a suggestion or enter your full query.
- You can search for video, image, and design files by title, folder and file path, and EXIF data (location, date taken, resolution, and camera model), where applicable.
- You can also use typeahead filtering to refine your search, if you’d like:
- from: to find files or messages from a specific person
- in: to search within a particular app
- time: to filter by date
- type: to search by file type (such as documents, spreadsheets, emails, and images)
- Press enter on your keyboard to see a full list of search results.
- Click the filters at the top of the search results page to refine your search by App, Type, Updated, or People, if you’d like.
You can filter for text found in images by clicking Type, followed by Image, and then clicking Text Found.
You’ll see previews of videos and images that match your query, and can enlarge that preview by clicking the thumbnail.
The following file types are supported when searching for multimedia:
- Image files: .gif, .heic, .jpg, .png, .svg, .tiff, .webp
- Text from image files: .jpg, .pdf, .png, .tiff
- Video files: .3gp, .3gp2, .3gpp, .asf, .asx, .axv, .avi, .dif, .dl, .dv, .fli, .flv, .gl, .m2t, .m4v, .mkv, .mov, .movie, .mpe, .mp4, .mpg, .mpv, .mts, .mxu, .ogv, .qt, .ts, .vob, .webm, .wm, .wmv, .wmx, .wvx
- Design files: .aep, .ai, .indd, .psd, .prproj, Canva files
Dash can retrieve multimedia search results stored on Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, and Canva, as long as these apps have been added to your Dash account.