Hide folders from Box Drive
hide a set of folders from box drive while leaving them available on Box for office and Box online
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Anonymous commented
Get this released stat! Too much clutter with all of my folders visible. I only use about 5% of my total folder population on a regular basis so ease of access is hindered.
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Anonymous commented
During iOS reinstall by my company, they replaced Box Sync with Box Drive. I didn't realise this at first and couldn't understand why I suddenly had a long list of folders I never use. Now that I understand, I have switched back to Box Sync, as Box Drive is just adding clutter without value! If I want to see all folders, I will go to online platform; but on my desktop I want to be in control!
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Anonymous commented
I could not agree more with these comments. I am not concerned with every folder my company has created, only the ones that are pertinent to me, so Drive adds to the clutter, rather than reducing it.
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Anonymous commented
I support this enhancement 100%. I switched to Box Drive today but did not realize that I could not control which folders show in my Box Drive. I regret switching and may switch back to Box Sync.
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Anonymous commented
I vote for this enhancement. We need to have control over our drive and to see a bunch of folders that have been shared with me yet I don't really need to access creates a tremendous amount of clutter!
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Anonymous commented
This is an essential need. If I cannot move folders for which I am not an owner, then I need to hide them. I have 1000's of folders at the top level, all created by collaborators.
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Anonymous commented
How is this NOT an option 2 years later!?!?!
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Anonymous commented
I'm at a university. Students' private information is shared with me, but I don't want to have those files accessible on my computer. I share my home computer with my family and I have my computer in my research lab. I need to be able to unsync or un-share some folders with drive, as I was able to with Box Sync. Thanks!
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Anonymous commented
Very important to reduce the clutter. Box is not usable if using Box Drive.
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Anonymous commented
What is an update on this?
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Robert Landry commented
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.
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AdminH.K (Admin, Box) commented
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.
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David Herrick commented
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.
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Anonymous commented
We could really use this feature for our employees.
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Anonymous commented
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.
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Anonymous commented
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.
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Anonymous commented
As far as I can tell this feature seems like it would require minimal investment and have a high reward. Please implement this feature!
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SMLR commented
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.
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Anonymous commented
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. -
Anonymous commented
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.