Box Drive: Change cache location
It would be really awesome to allow the box drive cache location to be placed somewhere other than C:\Users<USERNAME>\AppData\Local\Box\Box\cache, say on on a separate volume that doesn't consume space on C: (boot / application drive). Ideally I would like to place it on my second ssd D:
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Greg Miller commented
I moved the mount point for Box Drive to my high-performance SSD working drive (D:) only to find that everything is cached to my slower-performing C drive. Please enable me to re-locate the Box cache folder to my high-performance D: drive.
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Brant Thomas commented
This is an important item to be configurable. We have trends where OS partitions are very small on our new laptop builds. Would be nice to be able to direct this to the bigger drive.
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@Stephen Fowler - currently the Box Dive mount point is able to be changed, but the cache is not. From the article you linked:
"You're only moving the location of the Box Drive mount point. The cache and app data locations remain unchanged. So even though you move the mount location to a hard drive partition other than C:\, you continue to use space in C:\."
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Stephen Fowler commented
The current version of Box Drive allows this: https://community.box.com/t5/Deploying-Managing-Box-Drive/Configuring-the-Default-Box-Drive-Folder-Location/ta-p/66248
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Anonymous commented
With Box Drive would be great to be able to decide where to store the documents offline in our PC or external drives – exactly like with Box Sync. Or even to change the location after the installation of Box Drive.