Worst decision ever made by the box team to implement the sync as junction point.

Box Drive folder seems to become searchable as a side effect of changing the folder location using this method:

https://community.box.com/t5/Deploying-Managing-Box-Drive/Configuring-the-Default-Box-Drive-Folder-Location/ta-p/66248

After doing this (I used the most comfortable "C:\Box"), it should be visible to search tools. Tested in Total Commander search and Voidtools Everything.

"Search Box" on my desktop is fine if I am already in the folder where the file can be found; however, the whole point of searching for a file is that I don't know which folder to search. I need the search tool to look within subfolders. Box Sync is able to do this. Box Drive is decreasing my productivity and efficiency. If I have to work with Box Drive, at least Box Drive should have all of the tools of Box Sync.

"we will continue to prevent All Box Drive results from appearing in Explorer/Finder searches" that makes it sound like Box is going out of its way (spending time and money) to remove functionality from the Box Drive software.

OneDrive currently allows Spotlight to see/index both locally cached files and online only files even ones from shared folders.

Box Drive's integrated search is not a good solution. It always/only does universal searches. 90% of the time I want to search within a specific folder. There's really no reason to force users to jump to a separate application to perform searches.

Allow for searching within Mac OSX's Finder. Right now, there is no search capability within folders or Box Drive as a whole within Finder. The description of Box Drive on the Box website implies you can continue to use Mac Finder or Windows Explorer the same way you normally do (and like we can via Box Sync), but that is not the case. Please vote fellow box users!

Kyle, while I understand your argument, I dont understand the heistance to give the users an "option" to sacrifice performance/bandwidth to have this feature. At least, enable it for the files / folders that the user marked for offline use.

This is a deal breaker for me. I have been a happy Box/Box Sync customer since 2012, but I recently recommended it for a project I am working on and everyone else was forced to download Box Drive instead of Box Sync. They are repeatedly running into glitches and stupidities in the implementation that I have not experienced with Box Sync, and I was mystified until I realized that Box Drive has far inferior features to Box Sync. If Box continues in this direction with a far inferior product I will need to find an alternative for myself, my business, and the collaborations I engage in.

Allow MS File Explorer to search box drive files/folders, offline as a minimum

This is a deal-breaker for me (and presumably others in my 100,000+ person org). The previous version of Box Sync supported this necessary feature, and unfortunately the Box search is currently slow and poorly functioning, even on wired links and good hardware.

I'll advocate with our tech teams to find a solution or find an alternate vendor. Please fix.

Fix the search field in File Explorer to work for searching Box Drive.

The problem is that my company disables file content indexing on Box for security reasons. I imagine this is not uncommon. With Box Sync, I used to be able to search within offline files with windows explorer. I understand the limitation around online files metadata but please enable this for offline files within Box Drive.

Box Drive's MFO feature would be much more useful if it truly mirrored Box Sync's offline behavior. MFO files are currently not searchable in Finder/Spotlight and therefore cannot be used in Automator workflows.

The functionality of the Box Drive search is terrible. Searching for the exact name of a file does not bring it up at all. The ability to search from Windows is absolutely critical. I would not recommend Box Drive to anyone as it is essentially broken in this state.

Agree with these comments. I need to be able to search from one general folder and have it find all the files inside of the subfolders as well. Unfortunately, Box Drive doesn't allow this. One thing I have noticed though is it works with Box Sync. Not sure why the Box Sync search function works great and like windows, but Box Drive it doesn't. And to have to use that little search box thing every time for the hundreds of invoices I need to search.. brutal.

This is really critical.
The absence of this feature makes me want to leave Box !

We know from experience that customers don't like working from the web, and have been working from a 'mapped drive' experience for many years. It's hard to break this habit by getting people to only work/open files via a browser. Many people will use File Explorer or Finder to search and open their documents. Windows File Explorer Search is not the same as Box Search. Any/all improvements to searching thru File Explorer for Box Drive content is needed and appreciated.

For Macs, I definitely need Spotlight to work with the files that are synced to the hard drive, just the way Box Sync used to work. The Box Search functionality is weak -- there are no keywords like name:foo or ways to differentiating between searching within the file (can Box Search even search inside files?) vs. searching for the name of the file. When you have a lot of files, you rely on search to find them.

@Pascal Vuylsteker: I completely agree! Moreover, when looking for files, I don't want to search in the whole team drive of our office, but only search for the files that are available offline and locally saved on my computer.

If integration of Spotlight (mac) is impossible, then add at least an option which allows the user to choose between "whole box search" and "offline files search only".

I find the Box Drive search tool very much inferior to Windows' own search. It only lists a few files, I can't sort them by name, date and other attributes, and it doesn't work offline. I uninstalled Box Drive and reverted to Box Sync. Please continue offering both functionalities and improve the local search options for Box Drive. In its current state Box Drive will only work for users with few documents. We usually have tens of thousands of files on Box and need fast and highly sophisticated local search functions.

The Box answer is definitely not satisfying. For those who have multiple hierarchies of files some in Box, some in Google, some in Dropbox, some only locally, we can not check all the specific tools. The interest of Spotlight is that its searches very well everywhere at the same time