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Box Drive for Windows on Arm
With the release of new Copilot PC by Microsoft and other partners that run on Arm processors it would be nice to be able to install Box Drive on Windows on Arm.
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Certain Windows applications, don’t work with Box Drive
I would like to be able to use Windows apps (such as the built-in Photo app or Snipping Tool app) when opening image files in Box Drive.
In a company with strict security like ours, all apps that can be used are controlled by administrators, and free apps cannot be used without permission.
In addition, adding apps requires an almost hopeless application process, and free apps cannot be added due to security policies.
If BoxDrive could use Windows apps, that would solve this problem, so could you please make it possible somehow?-in Japanese-
Box Driveで画像系のファイルを開く際にWindowsアプリ (組み込みのフォトアプリやSnipping Toolアプリなど) が使えるようになってほしいです。
弊社のようなセキュリティが厳しい会社では利用できるアプリはすべて管理者で統制されており、勝手にフリーのアプリを使うことはできません。…1 vote -
Support for Conditional Access in the Mobile App
The ability to redirect to a specified managed browser to satisfy Azure Conditional Access policies
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<About BoxDrive becoming a native application for Windows 11
<About BoxDrive becoming a native application for Windows 11
Until Windows 10, when you right-clicked on a content in BoxDrive, the BoxDrive menu was displayed immediately.
In Windows 11, the menu does not appear immediately, and the menu finally appears after pressing "right click > check other options".
We are aware that the menu will appear as before just by right-clicking when it is compatible with Windows 11 native apps, so please take action.
OneDrive and Notepad++ already support native apps, so only BoxDrive is not as convenient as it should be.
Although it is a small matter, it causes…5 votesThis ability is now available in public beta. More details can be found here
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Changing default columns view in File Explorer with Box Drive
When using Box Drive on Windows 10, and accessing through File Explorer, the default columns are set as: Name | Size | Item type | Date modified.
I would like to be able to change those default columns and their order.
Currently, File explorer has a functionality that allows the default column view to be changed for all folders (View tab > Options > "Change Folder and Search Options" > "View" tab > and select "Apply to Folders)
However, this functionality does not work for trying to change the default column view for folders viewed through Box Drive.
12 votesThis ability is now available in public beta. More details can be found here
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Box Drive for Windows 11
Box please bring your Box Drive up to date with two changes.
- Support the new context (right-click) menu in Explorer on Windows 11
- Fix the Icon overlays for Box that show the status of a file. (already posted an idea on this months and months ago
6 votesThis ability is now available in public beta. More details can be found here
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Enhance file storage location for Box Drive
Having files stored in a hidden user cache folder is a very bad design. Leave them in the folder where they "physically" are, instead, just as Box sync, Dropbox, Mega, and others do.
Plus, let me choose where the app installs in and which folders I want to keep synced. As is it now, Box Drive has a needlessly redundant mechanic, eats up space on the system drive, and give no control to users.
I uninstall the app until these problems are addressed.
7 votesThis ability is now available in public beta. More details can be found here
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Re-implement Windows shell icon overlays - Fix it permanently
This is an age old problem that is getting more and more common and you even have it covered here - https://support.box.com/hc/en-us/articles/360044195513-Icons-Do-Not-Appear-In-Box-Drive-or-Box-Sync-Folder-on-Windows
Now in Windows 10, if we rename the registry keys, the moment the computer restarts OneDrive changes the keys again so that the box icons are not showing.According to Microsoft this should be attacked in a more modern way
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20190313-00/?p=101094
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/cfapi/build-a-cloud-file-sync-engine6 votesThis ability is now available in public beta. More details can be found here
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Box Drive (Windows) - Remember folder view settings
We’ve been using Box Drive since launch, and it’s been an incredible improvement in our workflow. Only a small issue has made it notably less useful in saving time, and is a known issue documented here (community.box.com/t5/Box-Drive-Known-Issues..)
Our file name and directory lengths are wider than the default for Box Drive/Windows. Normally Windows remembers preferences around column width, but in this case, as you know, Box Drive does not. This causes us to have to manually resize the “Name” field in every folder/directory, every time we access one. Therefore each user is having to do this perhaps dozens of times…
179 votesThis ability is now available in public beta. More details can be found here
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Box Drive: Change cache location
It would be really awesome to allow the box drive cache location to be placed somewhere other than C:\Users<USERNAME>\AppData\Local\Box\Box\cache, say on on a separate volume that doesn't consume space on C: (boot / application drive). Ideally I would like to place it on my second ssd D:
373 votesThis ability is now available in public beta. More details can be found here
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Support AD Conditional Access with Microsoft Azure
Please support AD Conditional Access with Microsoft Azure. It meets security requirements so easily.
And it is compatible for third-party apps by configuring SAML settings.I think that is not easy to develop Azure cooperation feature, but I require that.
63 votesThis request is currently under a Private Beta, with the aim of making it generally available as soon as possible.
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Add separate "status" column to Box Drive application
Box Drive has a known issue of overlay iconography sometimes not displaying after installed. This is affecting about 10% of our client installs and is an absolute headache and nightmare to resolve without registry updates.
This is caused due to the Box Drive apps's reliance on the "ImageList_SetOverlayImage" function in Windows which has a hard limit of 15 values. Thus Box Drive's icons "compete" with other cloud providers' icons on priority and is totally unsustainable as you are at the mercy of how other cloud providers code their software to take precedence over others in this list (by playing the…
49 votesThis ability is now available in public beta. More details can be found here
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Box Drive IO performance abysmal
The performance of box drive read/write operations is sometimes a bit slow (10%) and other times abysmal.
Based on tests, scrubbing through timeline in an editing software like premiere pro is jittery whereas it is fast on onedrive which I believe does delayed sync and doesn't impact IO that much.
When unzipping a file containing numerous files and folders however the performance is so bad that it's not doable, it's in the neighborhood of 40x slower so a throughput of 140 MB/s turns into 3MB/srecommended actions: optimize IO of the mount point, providing option to turn off on the…
8 votesThis ability is now available in public beta. More details can be found here
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Add the ability to mark a file for offline use
Add the ability to mark a file for offline use
21 votesAvailable in beta as a part of Box Drive Cloud Files version.
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Make Box Drive a NTFS volume
Box Drive is currently recognized as a FAT32 "installed volume". Whenever I try to copy a file from my NTFS SSD, I get a system message telling me that some file properties cannot be copied.
I don't know if that can cause any problem in the files content, but it surely hurts our working efficiency, since we have to do an additional click every time we need to upload a file throughBox Drive.
11 votesThis ability is now available in public beta. More details can be found here
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50 votes
As part of our ongoing commitment to securing all of our customers’ most critical content, Box has launched the Beta for a new watermarking feature that enables organizations to apply watermarking to their video content - this beta is targeting Shield Customers mainly.
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26 votes
This ability is now available in public beta. More details can be found here
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Custom Watermarking based on metadata or manually.
Opportunity where main requirement was to distribute content to various locations, but add custom watermarking as they are published out. Typically with the location name content is publisehd to.
47 votesAs part of our ongoing commitment to securing all of our customers’ most critical content, Box has launched the Beta for a new watermarking feature that enables organizations to apply watermarking to their video content. Our customers will also be able to customize their watermarking, ensuring that the watermarks applied to their organization’s sensitive content best fit the needs of the organization.
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65 votes
This feature is available for a limited set of customers. Contact your Box representative for more information.
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Watermark is "too intrusive"
Coming from WatchDox, this watermark style is way too intrusive. It makes the file content hard to read. Ultimately, we'd like the ability to customize the style and content of the watermark.
23 votesWe're currently running a public beta for video watermarking and watermarks customisation.
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