How do I use Files to search for a file name or part of a file name within a folder on iPad?
I don’t know why this is so hard. I am looking at a folder of song PDFs in the Files App on iPad. I wanted to search for a few files by file name or file name contains a string, but anything I put in the search line returns 0 results. I am looking at the file list in Files right at some songs that start with “ALL “ including blanks in the file name, but if I put ALL or all, or really any character in the search string, I get 0 results. This is a connected Dropbox folder, but I get 0 results if I chose any of the three tabs at the top, recent, dropbox, or file name.
Search for a file name seems to work better for “On my iPad, iCloud, but not for Google Drive, or Dropbox. If I search all of my Dropbox for the character “A”, I get one hit, a file named “DEATH OF A SALEMAN____stevegoodman”, a PDF that doesn’t start with an A, and isn’t downloaded, so I am puzzled by the logic of this search.
I screen captured a video of what I am getting here, but didn’t know if I could attach it here or leave a link.
iPad Air 2, iPadOS 15
