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
Insane this is not on your roadmap. This "feature" is status quo across every other platform.
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Anonymous commented
It is unfathomable that this feature is not on you "current roadmap". Many systems now have multiple hard drives, typically having a small fast SSD C: drive for system files and startup but a second, much larger storage drive. It seems very silly to force users to store cached data on a specific drive and not be able to select where cached data is stored. Pretty much all your competitors already have this feature.
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Anonymous commented
yes this feature is badly needed
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Anonymous commented
As @Stephen Fowler noted, it sure does appear that it's fixed. The Box documentation is horrible and misleading.
https://twitter.com/drivelinebases/status/1153212578719363072
Everyone, you need to switch to Box Sync if you want this functionality. Box refuses to acknowledge that Box Sync is way ahead here, even noting in their "solved" docs that you can "move the folder" and in the table both Box Drive and Box Sync are checked, without actually acknowledging the fact this is a soft symlink, which is NOT obvious for 99% of users - almost all users think that files that appear on their D: drive are.... actually on their D: drive.
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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.