Dropbox is not searchable in Mac OS Monterey 12.0.1

I have found a solution, everyone! I hope everyone struggling with this will find this post. The problem isn't with dropbox, it's with Mac Spotlight. Which surprised me, as I always thought the finder search was separate from Spotlight, but apparently, on the back end, both are one-in-the-same. I've heard many times that re-indexing spotlight didn't work, but it does! You just have to do it a different way for everything to ACTUALLY 100% reindex.

Tutorial is here on apple's forums: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253479408

Just giving credit where credit is due.

In case that goes away, instructions are also listed below.

• Open System Preferences and go to Spotlight's Privacy tab.
• Add the entire hard disk INTO the Privacy list.
• Maybe wait 30s.
• Remove the hard disk FROM the Privacy list.

Spotlight will re-index. After finish re-indexing, the search in folder works for me.

(To see if Spotlight is indexing, use Command+Space to invoke Spotlight, and type in something. Wait a second. You should see a progress bar to show indexing progress)

Of note, I am on Mac OS Monterey 12.6 (21G115). My dropbox version is 158.4.4564. These are both the lastest, as of now, 10.3.2022.

Hopefully this helps! Changed my life - I can work again!