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  1. Box Drive compatibility with MacOS Big Sur

    It appears Box Drive uses a legacy extension no longer supported with the latest MacOS release, Big Sur.

    In addition, the new M1 based machines have been widely applauded for their performance and battery life. I assume this will translate to increased sales.

    So when you do make Box apps Big Sur compatible, I would recommend building a universal app supporting both Intel and Apple Silicon.

    6 votes

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  2. Ability to force sync of Box Drive

    Currently, Drive relies on event poll for updating cached contents, and if events (updates on web) are not picked up by Drive in a timely manner, then local contents get outdated (out of sync with web). As a workaround, we want the ability to force sync of a selected folder (maybe add a right click menu to force sync/refresh cache).

    171 votes

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    This feature was delivered in Box Drive v2.25!

    User can right-click on a folder in Box Drive and choose "Refresh folder" to get the latest updates made to this folder from Box on demand if they notice that some updates don't already reflect in Finder/Explorer.

  3. Collections sync on Windows Box Desktop

    Would appreciate it if Collections would sync with Box Desktop for Windows. Thanks.

    3 votes

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  4. Warning/Prompt before deleting items in Box Drive

    This is to avoid users accidentally deleting content in Box Drive. Users sometimes delete items unintentionally and it's too late for them when they receive email notifications.

    4 votes

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  5. 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

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  6. Ability to open a file in Box Drive from a shared link accessed via the web

    After opening a shared link in Web App, a user should be able to open the file directly in Box Drive.

    120 votes

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    Hi. This capability is among top priority for our team. We will share updates as they’re available. Please vote for the existing Pulse request if it’s important to you. Thanks

  7. Display error when Box Drive icons do not appear

    Create error message for users to notify them when their icons are not showing for Box Drive.

    3 votes

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  8. Box Drive Accidental Deletion

    Since the introduction of Box Drive end users that haven't read the documentation and skip through the walkthrough aren't used to seeing all of the files and folders.

    The user without realizing, then believes that all of these files and folders either aren't needed or are taking up physical space on their hard drive.  The user then either randomly deletes select files and folder or just deletes everything within Box Drive.  A solution is needed to either further alert or prevent this.  One other possible solution is to create a process to fully restore all of the deletions…

    16 votes

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  9. We want to be able to see uploaders' email addresses in box drive.

    We have an Box-powered upload spot on our website that feeds into a Box folder. Clients upload documents to us using this upload, and they are required to add their email address. In the browser version of Box it shows the email address of who uploaded the document in a column titled "Updated". In Box Drive, we can't see these email addresses. It would be very helpful to be able to see these email addresses in the windows file explorer using Box Drive.

    2 votes

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  10. Manage Permissions directly on the folder in Box Drive

    Add ability to review/manage colloborators on Box folders through right click on context menu of Box Folder, when Box Drive is online. It's not efficient to go into Box Online to do this .

    2 votes

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  11. Box Drive IO performance abysmal

    The performance of box drive read/write operations is sometimes a bit slow (10%) and other times abysmal.
    Based on tests, scrubbing through timeline in an editing software like premiere pro is jittery whereas it is fast on onedrive which I believe does delayed sync and doesn't impact IO that much.
    When unzipping a file containing numerous files and folders however the performance is so bad that it's not doable, it's in the neighborhood of 40x slower so a throughput of 140 MB/s turns into 3MB/s

    recommended actions: optimize IO of the mount point, providing option to turn off on…

    9 votes

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  12. 7 votes

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  13. Ability in Box Drive to have documents physically stored on PC or external driver

    In Box Drive it would be good that the documents are physically on our PC in offline mode, not just a memory copy (metadata).

    31 votes

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    There’s an ongoing private beta for external drive support on macOS. We’ll share more details as progress is made.

    For the other request: with Box Drive on Windows, you can mark files and folders for offline use, and that content will be downloaded to your device. Starting with Box Drive for Windows v4.27, even if you quit Box Drive, all downloaded content remains available on disk and can be opened and edited.

  14. launch & login to Box Drive via a script/API,

    Launch & login to Box Drive via a script/API

    3 votes

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  15. Add file path to macOS Box Drive search function

    Since macOS Finder will not search Box Drive by filename correctly, the only real way to search for files is using Box Drives built-in search function. This will successfully find a file, but it does not show you the path in the folder tree. Could you please add the containing folder and path in the search results box? Ideally the user would also be able to open a finder window directly to that containing folder directly from a click in the search results box.

    Thanks!
    --Richard

    4 votes

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  16. Seamless login for Box Drive in non-persistent VDI environments

    Users have to log in to the Box apps (Box Drive, Box Notes, etc.) each time, as the user profile info is blown away from the non-persistent VDU environment after logoff. This results in a very poor user experience. They'd like to leverage embedded windows authentication if possible but are open to other ideas.

    9 votes

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  17. Disable Box Drive for External Users

    Due to support or data privacy concerns, it would be beneficial to have the ability to prevent external users from utilizing Box Drive for files shared with them.

    1 vote

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  18. Add progress bar for Box Drive auto update

    When updating there is no update progress bar. Sometimes Box Drive does not restart and leaving users confused.

    3 votes

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  19. Box drive to support SAML-based authentication

    We use Okta as a primary authentication method for Cloud-based applications like Box.
    Would like to see Box Drive to support for either redirect to main iDP configured at box account or naively support SAML-based authentication.

    1 vote

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  20. Send box drive logs to any email address

    Allow users to send box drive logs to a given email address rather than ONLY to Box Support. Remote debugging is difficult when we can't work directly with our end users' logs.

    2 votes

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