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  1. Manage default Box Drive install folder in Admin Console

    To configure the Box Drive folder location, registry keys need to be pushed to all workstations. The customer would like it if there was a setting in the Box Admin Console where you could set the new folder paths for Windows and Mac, and then when a user logs into Box Drive, it would automatically update the registry. This would save admins from having to worry about new users or anyone they might miss with a manual push.

    32 votes
    not planned  ·  2 comments  ·  Box Drive  ·  Admin →
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  2. Make File Properties available in Box Drive

    Make content-specific Properties viewable in Box Drive.

    11 votes
    not planned  ·  0 comments  ·  Box Drive  ·  Admin →
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  3. Backup user folders to Box Drive

    To make the capture and backup of user content on our users' local systems easier, Box Drive should have an option to automatically select and sync the contents of user folders on both Macs and Windows computers (e.g., Desktop, Documents, etc.).

    39 votes
    not planned  ·  2 comments  ·  Box Drive  ·  Admin →
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  4. Enable sync of files with lnk extension through Box Drive

    Box Drive will not sync files with a .lnk extension. We would like to be able to sync these as they are valuable in certain circumstances and are not hidden/system files.

    35 votes
    1 comment  ·  Box Drive  ·  Admin →
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  5. Add the ability to mark a file for offline use

    Add the ability to mark a file for offline use

    21 votes
    1 comment  ·  Box Drive  ·  Admin →
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  6. box drive metadata

    With some of the new updates coming to Metadata, I'd like to request that Box Drive be able to support updates to Metadata on a folder/file.

    As a start, a context menu option that would take a user directly to the metadata page.

    11 votes
    1 comment  ·  Box Drive  ·  Admin →
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  7. Silently sign in users to Box Drive using their Windows Credentials.

    “Enable silent account configuration. For info, see Silently sign in users to the OneDrive sync client with their Windows credentials. If a device is not already joined to Azure AD, enabling this setting will join it.”

    8 votes
    not planned  ·  0 comments  ·  Box Drive  ·  Admin →
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  8. Improve Box Drive memory usage

    Box recommend 4GB of RAM as minimum system specifications. But 4GB of RAM is not enough since Box Drive tends to use more than 1GB memory when a user open folder which has a lot of items. Therefore the fetching function should be improved to run efficiently on 4GB of RAM

    21 votes
    not planned  ·  0 comments  ·  Box Drive  ·  Admin →
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  9. Display warning when user approaches cache limit

    Allow the ability to show a prompt to the user when they are approaching the Box Drive cache limit

    6 votes
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  10. Disable drag/drop function for subfolders when navigating to save a file

    When navigating to the relevant subfolder to save a file, it is too easy to accidentally drag/drop a subfolder into a parallel one, on route.
    Causing headaches with missing folders and upsetting the folder structure.
    If the folder moving function could be frozen while saving files, this would be more secure.

    8 votes
    not planned  ·  0 comments  ·  Box Drive  ·  Admin →
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  11. Shared link to open file directly in Box Drive

    Instead of opening in Web App, we should click a shared link to open in Drive.

    67 votes
    15 comments  ·  Box Drive  ·  Admin →
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  12. Short cut link for the file in Box Drive should be available

    Windows shortcut link for the file in Box Drive is broken if the BoxDrive cache is deleted. If the shortcut exists, the file in Box Drive should be opened as far as it exists.

    10 votes
    not planned  ·  0 comments  ·  Box Drive  ·  Admin →
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  13. Action Failed: Unsupported Name - no file path shown in tool tip

    For Box Drive errors where 'Action Failed: Unsupported Name' - the tool tip on hovering over the filename shows 'Unsupported Name on OS’, instead of the full file path (such as with 'Rename File Failed: Name Is Already Taken').

    4 votes
    not planned  ·  0 comments  ·  Box Drive  ·  Admin →
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  14. show full details of a file when integrated in finder

    when viewing a file in a finder window (mac) I cannot view the details such as dimensions of an image. this is an extremely valuable feature for designers and developers using box to store their files.

    4 votes
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  15. Box Drive Install - Convert Synced Files/Folder to Marked for Offline

    After installing Box Drive, the items that were previously synchronized with Box Sync should marked for offline. It is a disincentive for my team to have to resync all these folders. Additionally, the synced link on the web interface does not seem to serve a purpose since it does not reflect the items now marked for offline.

    3 votes
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  16. I want to set a password when creating a shared link with BoxDrive.

    I want to set a password when creating a shared link with BoxDrive.
    FURUNO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.

    6 votes
    not planned  ·  0 comments  ·  Box Drive  ·  Admin →
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  17. Add Make Available Offline control to Explorer/Finder toolbar

    We are pushing our users to start using Drive instead of Sync. Our helpdesk team brought up that they are concerned that the current UI for MFOing content (right click file, click “Make Available Offline”) is not intuitive for end users. They are requesting a button for “MFO“ to be surfaced on the top toolbar of the Windows Explorer window when an item is selected, so that the option is visible without having to right click the item.

    3 votes
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  18. Ability to see and access bookmarks in Box Drive

    Bookmarks: I store a lot of bookmarks in Box. This bookmarks are not visible in the folder structure on my laptop (links seems not to be stored as files). As a consequence e.g. bookmark titles are only searchable via Box browser interface but not via Windows search functionality within explorer

    227 votes
    49 comments  ·  Box Drive  ·  Admin →
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    not planned  ·  Anonymous responded

    We currently do not have this planned on our roadmap. Please keep the feedback & use cases coming to help us prioritize this in the future!

  19. Search for Box Drive content from Explorer/Finder Search

    337 votes
    84 comments  ·  Box Drive  ·  Admin →
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    not planned  ·  Anonymous responded

    We are currently not planning to implement this feature and will continue to prevent all Box Drive results from appearing in Explorer/Finder searches.

    Box Drive does not download the all of the metadata (File name, folder structure, etc.) of your Box content. Instead, it is downloaded on demand and then evicted when it is no longer relevant. This eviction process is not visible to users and it is not easily predictable. This would cause the search results in Explorer/Finder to be inconsistent for users – sometimes they would find a file and other times they may not if the metadata and file were evicted.

    We have chosen not to download all of the metadata (and then keep it up to date with changes) as this can result in a large performance, storage and bandwidth tax which is not scalable – especially in environments where users interface with millions of files/folders.

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  20. Expose EXIF Metadata in the Box Drive when Media (Photo, etc.) is Uploaded via Box Drive or Web App

    We sort hundreds of thousands of photos taken by our users. We need to be able to sort within Box Drive in a Windows Explorer view, and one of the ways they sort is via the Date Taken attribute.

    31 votes
    not planned  ·  4 comments  ·  Box Drive  ·  Admin →
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