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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Anonymous commented
Absolutely can`t understand why this function is not available. Especially, since BoxSync no longer exists and I can`t store my own files locally at all anymore. I mean fully store locally. I really dislike this about Box Drive but even more so without being able to select the path for the cache folder. My C drive on all my computers is usually not huge. But more than enough space on all other (external) drives. Please change this!
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Rock Rocheleau commented
I am an IT person for several companies that use box. Not being able to change the file location is ridiculous. This is such a basic concept that it shouldn't even need to be discussed, but somehow needs to be asked for by users as a new idea? For 5 years? Please make this option available asap. As a company who recommends software to their clients, we have plenty of options available and this is a sure negative.
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Anonymous commented
Still "Under Consideration"???
Bad form...
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Anonymous commented
How this is still not possible, blows my mind. We are in 2024!
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Anonymous commented
I have a 1 TB primary drive a 2 TB second drive that is 90% open - my primary drive fills up rapidly due to the Box Cache (despite of course, me mounting it on the second drive as discussed in this thread). In any case, it is irritating for me being on a data-heavy project, to always have to find the large subfolders and mark them for online-only. So I also wish to vote for not assuming C: is the right place for the Box Drive Cache.
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Anonymous commented
With the amount on different industries using Box for sharing files with remote workers, this should be a no brainer.
I'm a freelancer that works in video, and half my clients use Box to share projects. Being able to sync the project to my NAS drive, rather than my C drive would allow me to actually work without the fear of my drive filling up and wasting time offlining files I'll need later, just to download new assets.Get it together. People have been suggesting this for 4 years.
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Anonymous commented
This would be incredibly useful and it's kind of crazy that it isn't an option already
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Anonymous commented
This issue has existed for years, and I am surprised that it has not been fixed yet. My school offers unlimited Box storage so I have used it so far, but it seems I need to find alternative storage as I graduate.
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Anonymous commented
I signed up yesterday and only later did I realize that I won't be able to use it because I can't install it outside the "c". I need to cancel urgently.
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Anonymous commented
Shocking this not possible! Macs often have small internal boot drives, yet I need to collaborate on a project with more than 1TB of space to be used! Unsuitable for professional file collaboration unless you can keep the 'offline files' aka cached files in a user-defined folder which could be on a drive other than the boot drive.
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Anonymous commented
This is required with large data files as the buffer size is not big enough on my local HD drive as compared with a larger SSD.
This will add a lot of versatility to the software!
Thanks
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Anonymous commented
January 8, 2019, to January 8, 2024. FIVE YEARS. Still "Under consideration" (since April 2020) but no progress towards actual implementation?
This product is unusable for us without the ability to control with cached files (incl files marked for offline use) live. System C drives are small these days, on nearly all shipping systems (as they should be), with separate larger volumes for bulk data.
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Anonymous commented
Together with the rejected "Show properly in search" feature THIS feature is so obvious and it is sad that it is ignored for years now. "Box sync" could do it but has other issues.
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Anonymous commented
I am not able to set a different disk as the cache / local storage drive than disk C. That said box is not usable at all without this feature. I don´t know anybody who has an 8TB set as a C drive (OS).
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Anonymous commented
This is required with large data files as the buffer size is not big enough on my C drive as compared with a larger SSD used for this exact purpse
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Anonymous commented
We would like to have Box drive (and cache) have the ability to be installed on a different drive then the C drive. We would like to have Box Drive be placed onto a secondary drive that we can then encrypt to prevent potential documentation leaks if a system was to be compromised, stolen, lost.
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Anonymous commented
I also see it as very necessary because my drive C: is only 1TB and the cache fills it almost all and I have to keep deleting, that is very frustrating.
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Anonymous commented
As per the previous comments this is a critical functionality. Based on the absence of action on this, I will advise my clients to choose a different solution.
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Anonymous commented
I see this is under consideration since 2020. Any updates from Admin. Really need this feature.
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Anonymous commented
I agree with above/others. Additionally, moving the Box Cache location to an external drive does not control the user access permissions, so unless you set permissions to exclude other users on the device, they will have free access to whatever is cached. Oops.