Encrypted files not showing in Windows 10 search results? Here's the fix.

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Do you have encrypted files that don't appear in search results? In this guide, we'll show you how to fix this problem on Windows 10.
On Windows 10, the Search experience builds a database to index the locations and information required to show your files from known folders as quickly as possible.
Although this feature makes finding contents a lot faster, there's one caveat, Windows 10 doesn't index files that are locally encrypted on your device. However, this is the default behavior, which means that if you're using file encryption, you can update the settings to make this type of content searchable.

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