Finding things that have been shared with me a long time ago is my number 1 (in fact, maybe my *only*) problem with Box. The "Shared with me" view in Google Drive basically negates this problem on that platform.

As mentioned by many before, it's insane that it has taken this long for this issue to be (or at least start to be...) addressed! Is there a hybrid of the two options above where by default all folders shared with me would sit in a 'shared with me' folder in the root, but then I could add shortcuts to them from elsewhere in my own folder structure (e.g. let's say 2 different project teams have shared a folder with me called 'contracts'. Both go by default into a root folder called 'shared with me', thus not cluttering up the root folder itself. But then I could add a shortcut to one in my 'Project A' folder structure, and a shortcut to the other in my 'Project B' folder structure. Ideally that shortcut would appear in both Box online and Box Drive on my computer. Something like that would be SUPER helpful for me!!!

Thinking ahead, if someone else with access to the Project A folder didn't have permission to access the shared Contracts folder, they'd click on the shortcut but just get an error message saying the didn't have access to the file - which is fine....

Please let us know if there are any updates to this request. The community forum post about this issue started four years ago (Nov. 2015). I just discovered this glaring lack of functionality today, but this is immensely frustrating. I straddle several distinct units in my larger organization, and the inability to self-organize shared materials at the root of my Box instance is mind-boggling to me. How long until there's action on this? You've been told about this for years already!

Option 2 please! This impacts the whole company as we are using Box Drive as company solution. Many complains on this. How to organise folders shared with me.

My Box is full of different shared folders from different projects i've worked on, even with same name.
I would like to be able only for my user to reorganize folders shared with me within other folders Also, renaming of a shared folder to not rename the original shared folder.
Or to be able to create links of shared folders under a folder created by me to gather all the shared folders or these links under it, per project for instance.

Any workaround is welcome on short term

Thank you.
Best regards,
Alexandru Gheorghita

What is the timeline for this? It's been consistently requested for several years.

Option 2 pretty pretty please!

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.

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.

Option 2

Option 2, of course!

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.

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.

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.

Option 2 is a must.

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!

Many of our clients are moving to this platform and having multiple folders without being able to tell who they are from is ridiculous.

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.

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.

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.