Shared With Me - Folder Management for Collaboration Folders
We would like to have a "Shared with Me" folder for any folders we have been collaborated into.
We continually get feature requests for Box to allow a way to organize content shared with me. For example, I'd like to create a "Shared with me" folder that all the content shared with me could be organized into.
I envision this could happen in one of a few ways and there would need to be some determination how much control the end user has....
Option 1:
- Allow end users to check a setting that would create a folder called "Shared With Me". This would also move all folders that someone shared with me into the "Shared With Me" folder.
Option 2:
- Allow end users to manually move folders shared with them into a folder structure of their own design. For example I may create folders such as "Shared from Jim", "Shared from Carol", or "Shared by Andrew
Team is gathering feedback
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Anonymous
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Option 2 pretty pretty please!
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Anonymous
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This could be named better, but in the context that a number of people share folders with you, allowing a user to create their own folder hierarchy based on what's shared with them would make things much easier to organise.
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Anonymous
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Please implement option #2! I just installed Box Drive and this issue became an immediate user experience failure - hundreds of folders in my root directory that I can't organize as I wish.
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Anonymous
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Option 2
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Anonymous
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Option 2, of course!
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Anonymous
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Please make this happen. Box top levels are a complete mess. Option 2 is magnitude of orders better than option 1, which is better than the current state.
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Anonymous
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This is by far my largest complaint about using box. Far too difficult to navigate given the number of collaborative folders. Option 2 is a must.
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Anonymous
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I strongly agree with this feature. I work at a large organization with lots of committee work, which is often done via a shared Box folder. I have many of these, and rarely use most of them. Obviously, it is unpolitical to delete or "End collaboration", so instead I would like to bet able to segregate them. As it is now, they take up valuable space in my Box home directory.
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Anonymous
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Option 2 is a must.
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Anonymous
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This is super important. I received many shared links.. and they are super messy. definitely need to have this flexibility for users to organise shared links.
Pls prioritise this!
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Anonymous
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Many of our clients are moving to this platform and having multiple folders without being able to tell who they are from is ridiculous.
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Anonymous
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Option 2:
Without this ability Box is too difficult to use. If the app worked on a mac I would use it outside the web interface. -
Anonymous
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Option 2 is the only one that solves the problem.
If you only have a "Shared with me" folder it just moves the problems of name conflicts (i.e. 4 or 5 people sharing a folder with the same name) one level up - into the "Shared with me" folder. -
Anonymous
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This is our biggest pain point within Box, and it only continues to get worse as our organization grows. It is critical that option 2 be implemented, soon.
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Anonymous
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Option 2 is clearly the one that users want. It's 2019, I got here from a link on a community post from 2015. If this isn't implemented this year we'll probably drop Box in favor of... Dropbox.
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Carolyn Rothwell
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We need the feature proposed in option 2. People in our organization are moving off Box in favor of Google Drive / One Drive due to file sprawl creating eroding efficiency. Our thoughts mirror the comment posted on July 28th.
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Anonymous
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Without this feature, using Box Drive is almost a torture. 200+ Client folders, 99% of them shared with me by other users, showing in my Windows Explorer. You need to allow users to move shared folders into other folders. One Drive and Google Drive do this perfectly!
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Anonymous
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I'm not trying to be disrespectful, but it is ridiculous that this has yet to be addressed.
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Anonymous
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Option 2 is the only one that makes ANY SENSE AT ALL
if I have 20 different users share 20 different folders with me, putting them all in a"Shared With Me" folder is quite useless. -
Anonymous
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Chiming in on the need for this. Option 2 is hands-down a better solution. There are threads going back four years asking for this, and it hasn't been resolved. I would like to migrate my whole file architecture from Dropbox to Box, but my institutional Box account is too full of cruddy file sprawl I can't control without leaving folders I can't leave.