Search for files in the drive and return an empty array

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Search for files in the drive and return an empty array

Runxing Qiu 5

Hello:

When I use the SDK to search for file requests, some accounts return empty data, but the file actually exists. But when I log in to the oneDrive in my browser and perform a search, the data comes back correctly, but after a while, about an hour or two, it doesn't work again. Here's my request link:

https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/drive/items/A42FA85F95CC1A8F!sea8cc6beffdb43d7976fbc7da445c639/microsoft.graph. search(q='video')

https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/drive/root/search(q='video')

Neither of the above requests will work. Unless I first sign in to OneDrive with this account in my browser and then make a search request. I noticed that the request in oneDrive used: https://api.onedrive.com/v1.0/drives/a42fa85f95cc1a8f/oneDrive.search(q=@s)?%40s=%27video%27&%24expand=thumbnails%2Ctags&select=*%2CwebDavUrl% 2Cocr

Runxing Qiu 5 Reputation points

2024-09-11T07:41:19.9733333+00:00

request-id: 6cb1e6a5-1963-449f-9e2e-65d76793b95d

After searching once in OneDrive, All other conditions are the same.

request-id: c864db12-b91c-42d3-a23e-70fda2cfb2d6
Jonn 5 Reputation points

2024-10-07T14:17:19.0766667+00:00

I'd like to add what Runxing Qiu has said, we have a Geckoboard app that allows both onedrive personal and business accounts to connect to display their spreadsheet data on dashboards.

Recently (last couple of months) we've had reports that personal accounts (specifically accounts accessed from the EU although could be unrelated) - returns no files even though they exist in their drive. I checked the request directly and using the Graph explorer too with my own personal onedrive account. In all cases it returned no files - reading the docs exposed no reason or change to the API.

However once you searched within Onedrive UI (it has to be a search just accessing the files is not enough) - all of a sudden the API started returning results for the exact same query - it was like there was nothing indexed for the API- and once you queried in Onedrive UI it indexed for the API to return the files too!

In our case we're using the following endpoint

https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/drive/search(q='the-search-term')

Unfortunately I don't have a request id for before and after - I'll check back tomorrow with my own account to see if its returning no files again.

So want to check if this is a known bug for personal accounts - we've had no reports of business accounts being affected by this (although they could be more active compared to personal accounts)

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Runxing Qiu 5 Reputation points

2024-09-11T07:41:19.9733333+00:00

request-id: 6cb1e6a5-1963-449f-9e2e-65d76793b95d

After searching once in OneDrive, All other conditions are the same.

request-id: c864db12-b91c-42d3-a23e-70fda2cfb2d6
Jonn 5 Reputation points

2024-10-07T14:17:19.0766667+00:00

I'd like to add what Runxing Qiu has said, we have a Geckoboard app that allows both onedrive personal and business accounts to connect to display their spreadsheet data on dashboards.

Recently (last couple of months) we've had reports that personal accounts (specifically accounts accessed from the EU although could be unrelated) - returns no files even though they exist in their drive. I checked the request directly and using the Graph explorer too with my own personal onedrive account. In all cases it returned no files - reading the docs exposed no reason or change to the API.

However once you searched within Onedrive UI (it has to be a search just accessing the files is not enough) - all of a sudden the API started returning results for the exact same query - it was like there was nothing indexed for the API- and once you queried in Onedrive UI it indexed for the API to return the files too!

In our case we're using the following endpoint

https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/drive/search(q='the-search-term')

Unfortunately I don't have a request id for before and after - I'll check back tomorrow with my own account to see if its returning no files again.

So want to check if this is a known bug for personal accounts - we've had no reports of business accounts being affected by this (although they could be more active compared to personal accounts)

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