Why I vote for this: I wish to be able to use my Box Drive as a "working folder" for Box content that is currently relevant to me. I want to screen out the old business and the innumerable FYI collaboration folders I'm added to.

This is very useful, especially some admins wants to hide some externally collaborated folders (i.e. grey folders) from the users to prevent any accidents, such as accidental drag & drop of desktop items into external folder in Box Drive.

This would be a very valuable feature. For high-end production, the Box Drive cache information and behavior is quite simply a deal breaker. We have such a large file tree and Box Drive can only cache 25GB max of it by default (I know we can change that). How many files does that really cover? We now have to get in a habit of physically drilling down into the folders we need to preemptively "force-cache" them to keep them in the "recent" cache logs. "Making Available Offline" is not an option when that service is not allowed on an external hard drive like Box Sync. We are constantly double-guessing if files are actually in BD and have to go back and forth on the Web to make sure we're not losing our minds. In a fast-pace workflow, we ultimately do lose our minds. Then Box ecosystem acceptance disappears and users end up resenting it. Work simply stops, that cannot happen in any platform. Our users deal with hundreds/thousands of files daily. So basically we are asking the Box platform, its services and apps to do too much. Box Drive cannot handle it. We are now considering peeling apart all of our hard work to deploy a system that is a central hub for all users by separating archives from active work. That is backwards, any user should be able to find anything they need without asking anyone for permissions or help. We are considering putting back the very silos we worked so hard to destroy. Box engineers need to solve this now.

We could really use this feature for our employees.

What i have been forced to do is create folders that contain nothing but aliases of folders shared with me that are related to a topic....should be pretty straight forward to do this in some more automated manner using personal meta data on top of box.

Lots of users complaining that upgrading to Box Drive from old Sync client creates clutter. They want the ability to hide/unhide folders in Drive. Nothing like upgrading to the recommended client only to have your users angry and demanding the old client be reinstalled.

As far as I can tell this feature seems like it would require minimal investment and have a high reward. Please implement this feature!

This is crucial because someone with high-level access to files (Editor) accidentally moved sensitive files into another collaboration folder by click and drag in Box Drive and they didn't realize they had moved it until the folder was missing. We found it, but for a time, others had access to those files unintentionally because they were placed in a collaboration file. Other than being more careful, if we can hide folders in Box Drive the workspace is not only less confusing or crowded, it also prevents things from getting moved accidentally to places that are not currently Work in Progress.

I only want to see files i chose to sync to local box folder, just like with box sync.
Now it's so many folders without context or meaninful names I got invited to over time. The actually relevant folders are much harder to find now. I hate it.

I feel the bigger issue is that because users are unable to manage the view, they Delete the folder to remove it from view (if they have editor or co-owner permissions), which deletes it from Box which causes a problem for everyone accessing the (deleted) data.

Unbelievable that this is not including from the get-go. Even the ****** buggy messed up Box Sync has this feature. What were you thinking? Who wants to have their entire Cloud locally? Or if not be left to use a very inconvenient Box Sync...

I need to be able to filter the amount of folders and files I now see on my desktop by using Box Drive. Anyone in my company is able to create and share folders and files, but I'm only actively working on a few. It is unworkable to have to sort through 100 folders each time I start a project.

And search is useless because I don't have control over how all 300 employees name folders -

It's necessary the ability to hide cloud folders, because in my laptop I just want to see what I'm working for now, but it's important to unhide to include new ones to select them as I need them.
As many people have said, without this feature I wouldn't recommend this tool.

Without this feature, I cannot recommend Box as our company's main file storage solution, and we'll have to go with something else.

Without this my Box drive becomes a complete mess with everything that anybody ever shared to me.

Hugely important feature and impacting on the adoption & user satisfaction in my company. Please do add a Hide feature for unsynced folders.

Even being able to hide empty folders in BOX Drive would make navigating BOX Drive much quicker... or show somewhere the file count under each folder so the user knows which folders are populated with files would help!

Hi, I started this thread in the support forums about this very issue. I hope that this feature will be released soon, as it severely limits our ability to use Box Drive on sensitive systems.

https://community.box.com/t5/Desktop-and-Mobile-Forum/How-to-hide-some-folders-from-Box-Drive/td-p/62810

This is key for me in order to adopt Box Drive. People in my organization tend to add others to folders without much thought, often top level folders, and don't think carefully about folder organization. As a result, the folder structure I see under Box Drive is hopelessly unwieldy. While it's handy to be able to browse the folder hierarchy for things rarely used, I absolutely need some kind of filtering for "favorites" or "frequently used" or "only synced items" --- something to separate the wheat from the chaff.

This is key to my organization considering moving over from OneDrive. It would simply be too cluttered otherwise, and Box Sync can be problematic with larger file structures.