if you are running Box Drive on Mac, you may create a symbolic link to point the cache folder to a different location.

the default cache location is : /Users/XXXXXXXX/Library/Application Support/Box/Box/cache

I did :
cd /Users/XXXXXXXX/Library/Application Support/Box/Box
mv cache/ cache_old
ln -s /Volumes/Another_Bigger_Faster_Volume/Box_Drive/ cache

it seems to be working.

Please do this asap. It's keeping our teams from being able to use the product.

What is the reason for this? It makes no sense, and it would help us if someone could explain why you made this decision.

Yes please! We are in this exact same situation. Seems like quite an oversight! Please add the ability to choose the cache location. I need a large amount of data available offline, as I'm often in the field without an Internet connection, but I don't want it filling up my system drive. I have a separate internal drive on my laptop specifically for this purpose. Box Sync did this quite successfully, no issues. If we're being forced to Box Drive, it should at least include the same functionality of the program it's replacing. Otherwise your customers are losing the ability to do what they need. It's a step backwards, not forwards. Seems like such a simple fix!

Nope...that just changes location, NOT cache. Anyone found a way to change the CACHE location????????????

This would be incredibly helpful. As a system admin I deal with a lot of machines that have separate boot and storage drives (faster for video editing to use ALL the throughput.)

It is very easy to change the location of the local cache in Google File Stream. Box will need to implement this functionality soon if they want to stay competitive. In the meantime, I will be using Google File Stream for work that involves large data files.

I check back every 6 months or so to see if there has been any progress on this... still no. What a joke. Thanks for nothing Box team :-(

Back to Box Sync until this issue is addressed....

It is insane that this hasn't been resolved yet. I would never EVER use Box if my company didn't force the issue. Just stupid.

Is there a time line on when this will be implemented? Would be great of this was possible!

I'll add my voice to this request. When I reboot my system, it becomes virtually unusable for about 5-10 minutes whilst the C: drive is at 100% use as Box resyncs itself. Having the files on the D: drive would allow the resyncing, yet the C: drive would be free to launch and run other applications without the delay..

Is this still ¨under consideration¨ ?

It's ridiculous that this can't be corrected - it's a simple, rational, absolutely logical and necessary feature. Even if it was implemented as an "at your own risk" registry hack, that would suffice.

Unbelievable that this has not been addressed yet. Why on earth is the user not allowed to change the default cache location??? As many have described here, my IT dept default partitions C to be only programs and so it is quite small. This is extremely frustrating.

Was forced off Box Sync to this stupid, stupid Drive product. Tired of waiting for a "feature" that was part of the original product. Need the files offline but NOT on my boot disk. I cannot use the product "online" as I'm in Australia and the servers are god-knows where so it's slooooow. Won't be using Box anymore. YOU'RE NOT LISTENING TO YOUR CUSTOMERS.

This should be resolved now. We are using this tool for collaboration and all of us have smal SSD drives for our just our OS as C Drive. We have another HDD with bigger storage but can't allocate the files there!

Please help, urgently!

Just FYI your inability to do this is why we canceled our larger corporate account.

this needs to be a feature. I've got terabytes of data in box and need offline access but dont want to clog up my os hard drive. Even drobpox has the ability to select where you store data.

This is truly an embarrassment for any cloud storage solution company, not being able to usefully change the location of the downloaded assets. Our computers are partitioned into a small C:\ with just enough room for the OS and a few key programs, and then a much larger D:\. Not being able to use Box Drive due to locking the cache on C:\ is a huge oversight.

This is so stupid.

You are a storage software company, and don't let your customers actually choose where the storage happens on their devices. This is bloody inconceivable, to be honest. The fact is, I'm obliged to use this system for our organisation, or I'd be gone. So incredibly basic a functionality.

A: "Hey Box, please store my files on my D drive where I have a terrabyte of space."
Box: "I'm sorry, A, but I can't do that. I'll save it on your much smaller SSD instead."

So. So. Stupid.