Restore Box Drive behavior on MacOS when it mounted as an external hard drive with on-demand file streaming
Product: Box Drive Version 2.24.193 installed 2021-10-12 on MacOS 11.6
Newest release 2021-10-12 has removed the "external hard drive behavior" and on-demand file streaming feature (as illustrated in first 2 minutes of https://youtu.be/t7tPs1naUtY), which was THE reason I use Box. Now it behaves like OneDrive: (1) viewing Box file requires full download, (2) downloaded file remains on computer until manual removal, (3) dragging and dropping into Box folder literally moves file rather than copying file. These behaviors make life miserable and are the reasons I do not use OneDrive. Now Box has removed the sole reason I want to use Box.
Box Product Support could not address my concern and told me to report it to Box Pulse.
When Box Drive mounted like an external hard drive, any Box file (actively edited/viewed or idle) would not ever take up local hard drive space (unlike new version 2.24.193, which forces the file to be downloaded onto local hard drive before it can be edited/viewed, then remains on the local hard drive even after quitting Box app - the local copy must remain until it is manually removed by choosing "Remove Download"); permissions of original file would be fully preserved when original file was copied onto Box drive (unlike new version 2.24.193, which forces all files to be executable by the user); original file would NOT be removed from its original local when drag-and-dropped onto Box folder (unlike new version 2.24.193 which removes the original file from its original location) - this is exactly like OneDrive and a main reason I cannot work with OneDrive.
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Michael Steinhofer
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I completely agree with this request! most of my users are completely messing things up by moving things out of box rather than copying them now that it's not a "drive".
Or at the very least we should be able to permanently designate an external drive as the location for the box folder like I do with my dropbox account.