Default Search Everywhere
While I understand the need to search only in a folder, my company uses the search everywhere function way more.
Is there a way to make the search "everywhere" option the default instead of search "only in this folder"? It slows us down so much right now having to switch it to find a different folder without going back to the home page, or switching the search feature.

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Anonymous commented
Make "Everywhere" the default for search! And "within current folder" optional with a click.
If some people prefer to have search "Within current folder" be the default, then can you let us select our preferred default for search.
Ever since you changed this (early Sept 2024), it requires an extra click for every search.
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Anonymous commented
I believe Box recently made an update to the "Search" bar where now when searching, it will only search inside the folder you are already in instead of defaulting to "Everywhere". We now have to click "Everywhere" if we are already in a folder and everyone in our office loathes this new update. We hope you change back to the way it was before.
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Anonymous commented
In August 2024, Box enhanced its search function.
Filters and Quick Search Enhancements FAQs
https://support.box.com/hc/en-us/articles/31702580615699When I'm browsing a specific folder (e.g. ABC folder),
when I search for a file, the following two options are displayed:- Everywhere
- In ABC folder"In ABC folder" is now selected by default.
We find it difficult to use search.
We would like to have the ability to change the default selection to "Everywhere". -
William White commented
These defaults should be configurable per user.
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Anonymous commented
When typing in the search bar, the new update prompts you to search "in ______ folder" that you are currently in rather than the entirety of box. It's super annoying and its terrible, please un-do this update as it's making our lives harder.
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Albert commented
Since the update we need to click on the parent folder every time we search instead of having the "Search only inside of" box remain checked. This also complicates things, if you chose something you already searched for, it searches "Everything" instead of the folder we are in. If you want to search the folder you are in, you have to manually type every time. This is a tremendous waste of time where my team searches for documents 100s of times in a day.