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  1. Box Drive should preview files in windows explorer or Finder

    There is a feature in Windows Explorer that allows you to enable a preview pane that previews the contents of files inside of the explorer window. This does not work on files that are in Box Drive even for files that have been opened before.

    99 votes
    8 comments  ·  Box Drive  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?
    not planned  ·  Anonymous responded

    This is a feature we would love to get to, but unfortunately it is not on our short term roadmap. Please continue adding your feedback!

  2. Support for differential or byte-level or block-level syncing with Box Drive

    This type of transfer means only the changed parts of the file are transferred instead of the whole file.

    Here's a good explanation:
    https://www.cloudwards.net/block-level-file-copying/

    7 votes
    2 comments  ·  Box Drive  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?
    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!

  3. Silent auto-update of Box Drive with no user action

    12 votes
    0 comments  ·  Box Drive  ·  Admin →
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    not planned  ·  Anonymous responded

    A true silent update is not currently planned. We have made some improvements to Box Drives update behavior by including silent updates when Box Drive is launching, if an update is already available. This improvement is in v2.3 for Mac and v2.3 for Windows.

  4. Box Drive supported in Windows Server 2012

    74 votes
    18 comments  ·  Box Drive  ·  Admin →
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    not planned  ·  AdminAnonymous (Admin, Box) responded

    Windows Server 2012 is not supported by Box as only two latest major versions (64-bit) are supported.

    https://support.box.com/hc/en-us/articles/360043696234-Understand-the-Box-Policy-For-Browser-And-OS-Support

  5. Support Windows folder redirection with Box Drive

    This is supported in Box Sync: https://community.box.com/t5/Box-Sync/For-Admins-Redirect-quot-My-Documents-quot-Folder-to-Box-Sync/ta-p/20656

    110 votes
    13 comments  ·  Box Drive  ·  Admin →
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    not planned  ·  Anonymous responded

    This is not technically possible with the current non-persistent architecture of Box Drive.

    When the ‘Box’ folder disappears (whens users quit, update, log out) Windows folder redirection creates a new ‘Box’ folder to continue to redirect content. This forks the redirection out of Box Drive.

    Workarounds have been investigated heavily, but the cost to implement is too large to commit to the roadmap now.

  6. Add Device Pinning support to Box Drive

    58 votes
    6 comments  ·  Box Drive  ·  Admin →
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  7. Expose Favorites in Box Drive

    Favorites are becoming more and more popular now that they're better exposed (in the left rail) in the new Web App.

    As such, users expect to access their Favorites list regardless of which endpoint they're using - webapp (supported), mobile (supported), or desktop (not supported via Sync or Box for Desktop).

    REQUEST: Add a 'Favorites' view to Box for Desktop content (somehow) that allows the user to view only their Favorites (files + folders) just like they do in the webapp.

    161 votes
    not planned  ·  13 comments  ·  Box Drive  ·  Admin →
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  8. Have Box Notes Accessed via Drive Open in Box Notes Desktop Application

    Right now, when a user opens a Box Note from Drive on their desktop, the note is opened in the webapp, rather than the Box Notes desktop app they have installed.

    A better flow would be to have those notes open in the Notes desktop app instead

    15 votes
    not planned  ·  1 comment  ·  Box Drive  ·  Admin →
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  9. Encrypt BFD's local cache

    22 votes
    0 comments  ·  Box Drive  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?
    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!

  10. Request for ability to control local cache behavior

    26 votes
    0 comments  ·  Box Drive  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?
    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!

  11. For problem items on Box, add ability to click on the problem item and be taken directly to the item on Box.

    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!

    18 votes
    1 comment  ·  Box Drive  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?
    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!

  12. Add support for symbolic links

    13 votes
    0 comments  ·  Box Drive  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?
    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!

  13. Customize which folders sync/appear in Box Drive

    9 votes
    0 comments  ·  Box Drive  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?
    not planned  ·  Anonymous responded

    We currently do not have this planned on our roadmap, though we want to recognize that content sprawl is an issue and we are working to address it!  Please keep the feedback & use cases coming to help us prioritize this in the future!

  14. Mount Box Drive as a letter drive

    13 votes
    2 comments  ·  Box Drive  ·  Admin →
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  15. Folder-Level Sync Controls: Restrict Managed Users from syncing a folder (even if they're an Editor / Co-Owner)

    Be able to disable sync at the folder level regardless of co-owner or editor collaboration level. Users need to be added at these collaboration levels but they should not have the ability to sync certain folders to their machine (e.g., heavily collaborated content).

    19 votes
    2 comments  ·  Box Drive  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?
    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!

    Box Shield may be a potential workaround for users interested in restricting syncing of specific content by classifying it. Though this will also prevent any downloads of the content as well.

  16. Change local BfD folder UI to distinguish if collaborators are in folders (like webapp)

    Add UI to local BfD folders to know ownership/collaborators of folders (i.e. yellow = no collabs, grey = external collab, blue = owned externally + collaborators)

    11 votes
    0 comments  ·  Box Drive  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?
    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!

  17. Allow users to suppress problem items they do not have permissions to fix

    For example, you are a Viewer Uploader on a folder that contains restricted Windows characters.

    As a Viewer Uploader, you do not have permissions to rename the folder.

    Now, your BFD client will forever complain about this folder.

    5 votes
    0 comments  ·  Box Drive  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?
    not planned  ·  Anonymous responded

    We currently do not have this planned on our roadmap. 

    We will be suppressing server-side problem item (files that cannot sync to Box Drive from Box.com) notifications starting in Box Drive v2.4 in an effort to reduce the noise while we work towards solving this problem in a better way.

  18. Allow Auto-Provisioning from Box for Desktop

    Our current desktop apps (Sync, Box for Office) do not support allowing a user to auto-provision their account during the login process.

    3 votes
    0 comments  ·  Box Drive  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?
    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!

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