Not having this feature is a real problem! Whenever I have to force a restart on my computer or Box Drive I basically can't upload anything until the Box sync is complete, because it eats up the entirety of my bandwidth. I have been trying to send a file 900MB large for several hours because I am not able to pause or reorder larger and less important files from syncing in the background first. It is severely impacting my deadlines!

"Not Planned" - Seriously? How... rediculous... A system that only suits super high speed connections... "have your files anywhere you go" - meanwhile, on the road with a laptop using mobile hotspots and metered broadband dongles, I can't even search online becuase box drive is churning through my connection and destroying my not-unlimited data allowances... right... ok... more like: "have your files exactly where your highest speed internet connection is; and whatever you do, don't leave the office"...

If box drive is ONLY a collaboration tool tethered to a desktop/high-speed internet setup, then there's much better options out there.

The only current workaround I can think of (for others in the same position as me with this) is to Firewall block box drive when you're out of the office... Haven't yet tried this; but it should hopefully work?...

Hard to believe there's no ability to pause sync yet. Please add.

It's unbelievable that Box Drive doesn't have a basic "pause sync" function. Not everyone has a lightning fast internet connection.

I need to be able to use Box during the workday without bogging down my internet connection for everything else, then turn on synchronization at the end of the workday. Currently if a large file is still attempting to upload when I start work, I have to remove it from Box until I no longer need my internet connection for other applications.

Going back to box sync till this is available. No way to use a mobile hotspot.

It's really necessary a Pause/Offline button as in Box Sync

Dropbox does. I use both and it's a definite advantage over Box. I would reconsider adding this feature. How hard can a pause sync button be to add?

I just installed Box Drive but I'm considering going back to Box Sync as, at least, I can prevent it to start up when Windows starts. Then when I want to sync my files, I just start Box Sync manually.

Sure, I could limit the "available offline" files to limit data traffic but then when I need to work offline (no Internet connection) I don't have my stuff to work on.

As a temporary fix, I suggest you add at least the option to prevent Box Drive starting up when the system is booted, similarly to what you can do with Box Sync.

That'll do until you, hopefully, add the "sync pause" feature to Box Drive.

Regards

Lack of this feature is making me continue to pay dropbox, even though my employerprovides Box for free. I will keep advocating to our IT department to buy DropBox for this reason.

Without this feature box constantly hinders us from having calls with customers via Teams/Zoom etc.

This can`t be that hard and is extremly important in these times of video calls only

The lack of this feature presents a serious Catch 22: when the Box Drive app isn't running I can't access my files and, but running it clobbers a slow internet connection. I was just on a Zoom call with a major Hollywood Director while filming in a remote location, and had to launch Box Drive to show him a file - one I had already chosen "make available offline," no less. The simple act of launching Box Sync tanked my internet connection to the point where Zoom kicked me out of the call, and it took me several minutes to copy the file out of Box, quit Box Drive, and rejoin the call. Quite embarrassing, to be honest. Please add the ability to pause syncing as a feature!!!

This is a required feature when working remotely on a tethered connection.

This would be a great feature to have, my internet connection isn't the greatest.

I commonly upload batches of large files to my BOX account...but this hammers the internet connection and has family impact with other things they - or I - need to do. DropBox has the ability to "pause" all local (machine-level activity), and Box should have the same (I assumed that you did, as it is so basic).

I also vote to have a simple Pause button for slow internet connections.

The application bottlenecks upload speeds to a crawl within the system and offers no way to see progress of the upload or pause this function, which affects the ability to video conference or use any tools that requires even a modicum of that upload bandwidth. Not having a pause feature and a sync progress menu seems like a huge oversight and the fact that the Box app has been without this functionality for over a year now seems insanely negligent. Not being able to pause long and strenuous uploads practically kills all usability and seems counterintuitive to the idea that the application would have greater functionality than just using the web interface. Any indication from the company that this is on the radar and something that will be added soon would be really appreciated.

I work in research and we generate large sets of data, in addition the post-processing also results in large sets of data. During the pandemic we have been forced to use our home internet to upload these files and often times my computer crashes because box app hogs the memory and attempts to upload all these files, please incorporate a pause feature or something. This is getting ridiculous.

Wow - crazy that this feature is still missing 🤷‍♀️

Here to also say ability to pause is very much needed as it very much slows or sometimes stops my business activities when syncing large files.