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1. List View of Marked For Offline Files

   It is imperative that we have a view of which folders we have Make Available Offline. We can't hunt and peck through hundreds of folders with a Green Checkmark on it to Make Available Online Only when we're finished with a big "sync". This is already a hoop we're jumping through because we can't "sync" to an external drive so we have to manually manage internal Hard Drive space. A user should be able to see what they have marked for offline at a glance so they can easily reverse the storage affect on local hard drives.

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2. Date and Time of uploading file on BOX

   Hi! I was faced with the problem of file date uploading on display on BOX.

   I know that usually, BOX shows "Today" or "Yesterday" if the file was uploaded to BOX today or yesterday. It's clear, but, I need to see the exact date displayed with numbers. For example, I want to see that the file was uploaded to BOX "18 of May, 2022" instead of "Today".

   Moreover, I even can't see the time when the file was uploaded to BOX. I work with the client in different time zones (the difference is 10 hrs) and sometimes it is really important to know the time uploading of the file, but unfortunately currently it is really confusing on BOX.

   So I have two questions:
   1. Is there any way to customize the date format (how always see the date instead of "today"/"yesterday"?
   2. How to see the exact time of uploading? (it is even preferable to see the timezone name to be sure when it was uploaded or at least have tools to be sure with this)

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   Hi! I was faced with the problem of file date uploading on display on BOX.

   I know that usually, BOX shows "Today" or "Yesterday" if the file was uploaded to BOX today or yesterday. It's clear, but, I need to see the exact date displayed with numbers. For example, I want to see that the file was uploaded to BOX "18 of May, 2022" instead of "Today".

   Moreover, I even can't see the time when the file was uploaded to BOX. I work with the client in different time zones (the difference is 10 hrs) and sometimes it is really… more

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3. Disable background sync of Box Drive (for throttled or metered connections)

   See below for link and post in the Box Community.

   This feature would allow background syncing to be turned off for Box Drive. Because MFO and caching are stored in a "container" that is only available while Box Drive is running - there is no way to access MFO files while connected to a bandwidth limited internet connection. You either are forced to background sync or not have access to your MFO files.

   https://community.box.com/t5/Desktop-and-Mobile-Forum/Disable-Box-Drive-background-syncing-for-low-bandwidth/m-p/73642#M4005

   Disable Box Drive background syncing for low bandwidth connections
   I've (mostly) adapted to using Box Drive instead of Box Sync.

   But a key feature that was lost is the ability to NOT SYNC folders that are marked for offline use.

   Because of the way the offline/cache is stored, the Box Drive MUST be running in order to access those folders.

   If you are working in a throttled/limited bandwidth environment, this can be problematic.

   For example - on inflight Wifi - if you have a synced folder that you are making many (even small) modifications to, Drive will blithely try to update all of those files - hogging bandwidth. Then GoGo decides you are using too much bandwidth and throttles you - even on other apps. Or I am using my phone's hotspot and a coworker drops a HUGE InDesign file into an offline sync folder - chewing through my data plan.

   Unless there is some secret that I haven't discovered, I'm in a catch 22. I can shut down Drive - but then I lose access to my offline files. If I leave it running, it hogs the bandwidth. (With Sync, I could kill the sync app and all my local files were fully accessible and editable. Get to the hotel and re-enable Sync and away it goes, matching everything up. Dropbox was even better - I could run a macro based on WIFI SSID name and issue a command line to enable or disable sync.)

   Best I've managed to do so far is use an app like "Little Snitch" to choke a particular apps access to the TCP/IP stack and fool drive into thinking I wasn't connected to the internet.

   Anyone else have a better solution?

   See below for link and post in the Box Community.

   This feature would allow background syncing to be turned off for Box Drive. Because MFO and caching are stored in a "container" that is only available while Box Drive is running - there is no way to access MFO files while connected to a bandwidth limited internet connection. You either are forced to background sync or not have access to your MFO files.

   https://community.box.com/t5/Desktop-and-Mobile-Forum/Disable-Box-Drive-background-syncing-for-low-bandwidth/m-p/73642#M4005

   Disable Box Drive background syncing for low bandwidth connections
   I've (mostly) adapted to using Box Drive instead of Box Sync.

   But a key feature that was… more

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4. Encrypt BFD's local cache
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   not planned  ·  Anonymous responded

   We currently do not have this planned on our roadmap.  Please keep the feedback & use cases coming to help us prioritize this in the future!

5. Display warning if a document is open

   Display a warning similar to read-only if another team member has a file open. Currently this is not possible without code installed at the individual PC level and there is no solution with MAC (just confirmed with support). The conflicting versions can be frustrating for teams and the tiny lock icon is just not a large enough warning when opening from box drive.

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   not planned  ·  AdminAkshay Ravi (Admin, Box) responded

   For Office files stored in Box, we are enabling the capability coauthor in real-time with collaborators. This will eliminate issues that arise when creating conflict copies. For other files types that do not support coauthoring, we do not have a feature planned on our roadmap, to notify users when the file is locked outside of the lock icon that is displayed on the file in the Explorer/Finder view. 

   We will place this in our backlog as we continue evaluating ideas to improve Box Drive.

   Please keep the feedback & use cases coming to help us prioritize this in the future!

6. Alert notification when moving folders in Box Drive

   When the user move from the folder sharing with collaborators (the folder’s owner is others) to the private folder on Box Drive, it occur an error after a while. I think I want to inform the user prompty before doing that if their operation is wrong.
   Please display an alert like same as operation on web UI before the user try to move folders on Box Drive.

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   not planned  ·  AdminAkshay Ravi (Admin, Box) responded

   Thank you for the suggestion. We currently do not have this planned on our roadmap.

   Please keep the feedback & use cases coming to help us prioritize this in the future!

7. Comments / Tasks from Desktop (Box Drive)

   In order to currently leave a comment on a file we have to right click on it, click on view on Box drive, which opens chrome, loads the file, then click on the comment icon on the right and then leave our comment

   A quicker and much simpler way of doing this would be to bring in comments and tasks into the box drive app to save us all of those steps of having to do this through our browser. There are a couple ways of doing this

   1) Bring in notifications, tasks and a comment stream into the system tray app. We have that nice search feature now which is amazing so it shouldn't be too hard to add a new tab there for tasks/comments and notifications like we have on the website. Show us a number somewhere to inform how many outstanding tasks, new/unread comments, new file uploads and/or mentions there are that need our attention. From there we could read and reply straight from the system tray

   2) Have a small indicator or number on the file icon itself in windows file explorer that let's us know how many comments/tasks are on that file and if there are any new ones.. We could right click on the right, go to the box context menu into a comments/tasks section that would bring up the discussions on that file. From there, in a popup menu or perhaps it just triggers the same system tray window discussed in the above point, we could read, reply or complete our tasks

   In order to currently leave a comment on a file we have to right click on it, click on view on Box drive, which opens chrome, loads the file, then click on the comment icon on the right and then leave our comment

   A quicker and much simpler way of doing this would be to bring in comments and tasks into the box drive app to save us all of those steps of having to do this through our browser. There are a couple ways of doing this

   1) Bring in notifications, tasks and a comment stream into the system… more

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8. See and share full path from Box Drive

   A function that enables to share Box Drive location/path between users.

   When using Box Drive on a daily bases, it is inconvenient that the user needs to open the link on the browser once to identify the specific location/folder path.

   It would improve to shorten the work flow if the users can see the full path from Box Drive so that they don’t have to go through the process to open box.com.

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   not planned  ·  Adminrmashintchian (Product Manager, Box) responded

   Thanks for the suggestion! It’s not currently on the roadmap at this time.

9. Add the ability to mark a file for offline use

   Add the ability to mark a file for offline use

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   not planned  ·  AdminAkshay Ravi (Admin, Box) responded

   Currently the ability to mark folders for offline access is supported.

10. Improve Box Drive memory usage

    Box recommend 4GB of RAM as minimum system specifications. But 4GB of RAM is not enough since Box Drive tends to use more than 1GB memory when a user open folder which has a lot of items. Therefore the fetching function should be improved to run efficiently on 4GB of RAM

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    under consideration  ·  Anonymous responded

    We are always striving to make improvements here. There won’t be one release were we resolve this issue though. Instead, there will be trying to make incremental improvements in all Box Drive releases.

11. I would like to see functionality added to the terminate_sessions API to delete cache information.

    When an administrator deletes BoxDrive session information, the cache remains.
    Even if an administrator deletes BoxDrive session information using the terminatesessions API, the cache will remain on the user side because this API is different from normal logoff.
    In this situation, even if the user loses the authority to handle the data, the data remains at hand, which may cause a security incident by a malicious user.
    Therefore, we would like to add a function to delete cache information when the terminatesessions API is executed.
    In the above difficult case (because deleting the client's cache seems difficult due to the nature of the API)
    If the above is not possible (due to the nature of the API, it would be difficult to delete the client cache), please consider adding a function that allows the user to select whether or not to leave the cache in BoxDrive.
    (In the case of deleting the cache, it would be like deleting the cache when closing a file opened from BoxDrive.)

    (Japanese)
    管理者がBoxDriveのセッション情報を削除した際、キャッシュが残る件について。
    terminate_sessions APIを用いて管理者がBoxDriveのセッション情報を削除しても、本APIは通常のログオフとは異なるため、ユーザ側にキャッシュが残ってしまいます。

    このままの状態だと、ユーザが当該データを取り扱う権限を失っても手元にデータが残るため、悪意のあるユーザによってセキュリティ事故が起きてしまう可能性があります。

    そのため、terminate_sessions API実行時にキャッシュ情報の削除を機能追加いただけないでしょうか。
    上記難しい場合（APIの性質上クライアントのキャッシュ削除は難しいと思われるため）
    BoxDriveにキャッシュを残すか否か選択できる機能追加も併せてご検討いただきたく（キャッシュを削除する場合はBoxDriveから開いたファイルをClose時にキャッシュ削除するイメージです）

    When an administrator deletes BoxDrive session information, the cache remains.
    Even if an administrator deletes BoxDrive session information using the terminatesessions API, the cache will remain on the user side because this API is different from normal logoff.
    In this situation, even if the user loses the authority to handle the data, the data remains at hand, which may cause a security incident by a malicious user.
    Therefore, we would like to add a function to delete cache information when the terminatesessions API is executed.
    In the above difficult case (because deleting the client's cache seems difficult due… more

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12. Folder-Level Sync Controls: Restrict Managed Users from syncing a folder (even if they're an Editor / Co-Owner)

    Be able to disable sync at the folder level regardless of co-owner or editor collaboration level. Users need to be added at these collaboration levels but they should not have the ability to sync certain folders to their machine (e.g., heavily collaborated content).

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    not planned  ·  Anonymous responded

    We currently do not have this planned on our roadmap.  Please keep the feedback & use cases coming to help us prioritize this in the future!

    Box Shield may be a potential workaround for users interested in restricting syncing of specific content by classifying it. Though this will also prevent any downloads of the content as well.

13. Remove box Icon from menu bar in macOS

    There should be an option to remove the box Icon from the menu bar un MacOS

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14. Give box the ability to store a MS Access database or enable locking or non-syncing

    Allow an MS Access database to be stored in box without it making new copies every time someone accesses the database.

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15. Pop-up message when unintentionally shifting folders

    It is strongly needed to have a pop-up message with Box Drive and Box Sync that allows the user to stop an unintentional shift of folders or files.

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16. For problem items on Box, add ability to click on the problem item and be taken directly to the item on Box.

    We currently do not have this planned on our roadmap.  Please keep the feedback & use cases coming to help us prioritize this in the future!

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    not planned  ·  Anonymous responded

    We currently do not have this planned on our roadmap.  Please keep the feedback & use cases coming to help us prioritize this in the future!

17. Box Drive & Box Shield

    Currently Box Shield classifies copy & pasting within Box Drive as downloading which results in a false alarm notification. It would be great to be able to see the difference between moving files and actually downloading files from a Box report.

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18. cache　Box Drive

    Refresh function in Box Drive

    Currently, it is necessary to logout/login to clear the cache and errors, but this is troublesome.
    I would like to be able to do this with the touch of a button.
    This is expected to improve the efficiency of our business.

    Box Driveのリフレッシュ機能

    現状ではログアウト/ログインしてキャッシュやエラーをクリアする必要がありますが、これが面倒です。
    これをボタン一つでできるようにしてほしいです。
    これにより業務の効率化が期待できます。

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19. UI enhancements to indicate moving/copying activity in progress

    When moving/copying files and folders in BoxDrive, I want to be able to see visually that an operation is taking place.

    Currently, BoxWeb displays a green dialog at the top of the screen when you move or copy files or folders,
    but However, BoxDrive has an explorer-like feel, so I don't think this kind of display appears even when a move/copy is performed.

    However, BoxDrive has an Explorer-like feel, so I don't think this kind of display appears when moving/copying is performed. or some other confirmation dialog. When an operation is performed, we would like to see a confirmation dialog such as "Do you want to move/copy?" or a progress bar so that the user can visually see that an operation is in progress.

    This is a request to reduce the risk of users making mistakes without realizing it.

    ①BoxDriveにてファイルやフォルダの移動/コピー時、操作が行われていることが視覚的に分かるようにしてほしい

    現在、BoxWebではファイルやフォルダを移動/コピーした際に、画面上部に緑色のダイアログが表示されるようになっていますが、
    BoxDriveはエクスプローラライクな操作感のため、移動/コピーが行われてもこのような表示が出ない仕様かと思います。
    操作が行われると「移動/コピーを行いますか？」といったような確認ダイアログや、
    操作中ということが視覚的に分かるようなプログレスバーなどを表示させるような機能を実装いただきたいです。
    ユーザーが気が付かないうちに誤操作をしてしまうリスクを減らしたいという背景からの要望です。

    When moving/copying files and folders in BoxDrive, I want to be able to see visually that an operation is taking place.

    Currently, BoxWeb displays a green dialog at the top of the screen when you move or copy files or folders,
    but However, BoxDrive has an explorer-like feel, so I don't think this kind of display appears even when a move/copy is performed.

    However, BoxDrive has an Explorer-like feel, so I don't think this kind of display appears when moving/copying is performed. or some other confirmation dialog. When an operation is performed, we would like to see a confirmation dialog… more

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20. Add auto-lock/unlock feature in Box Drive or provide a configuration tool

    Add auto-lock/unlock feature in Box Drive or provide a configuration tool

    In Box Drive v2.21, it is possible to enable the ability to automatically lock/unlock files when they are opened in Box Drive by modifying the registry.
    However, it is difficult for end users to modify the registry, so we would like to see Box Drive include the feature to automatically lock/unlock files, or provide a configuration tool (such as a batch file for registry modification) to modify the registry.

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