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  1. Box Reports User Details - Distinguish download to local disk vs. download using Box Drive

    Want a way to tell if the user downloaded it locally to their machine vs. just opening the doc via Box Drive/Office App/Box website. This feature would be extremely helpful to when a user is leaving the company and we want to know if they are “taking company docs”. Having “download” for simply opening and editing a doc is mis-leading. Would be super helpful to differentiate between the two.

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  2. On Mac, Box Drive has problems opening files after install of Box Tools

    I use Box Drive on my Mac. Ever since installing Box Tools, I am having problems opening files. In particular, after a file was recently opened, changed, and closed, the file seems to get "stuck" syncing back to Box. It freezes up and will no longer re-open or finish uploading unless I fully quit Box Drive and restart it. This happens even if I tell it to refresh the folder or wait for an extensive period of time.

    I'm not sure why there is no better way to report a bug, but my "idea" is for this bug to please…

    1 vote

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  3. Request to improve synchronization speed between Box Web UI and BoxDrive"

    Request to improve synchronization speed between Box Web UI and BoxDrive"

    We would like to request an improvement in the synchronization speed between Box Web UI and BoxDrive so that they can be synchronized within 5 seconds.
    Our investigation of the synchronization speed is based on the following items.

    Pattern (3) Upload to Box Drive and check the screen update on WebUI: Result: No automatic update even after waiting for more than 5 minutes.
    Pattern (5) Delete the file on WebUI and check the update on Box Drive: Result: 20 seconds
    Pattern 6: Delete the file on the Box Drive…

    58 votes

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  4. When viewing someone else's public link, add an option "add shortcut to my drive".

    Google Drive has this feature. It could be further locked down with security settings if orgs want to disable this. Otherwise, I have other companies that use Box sharing public links with me, but I need to bookmark them in my web browser because I cant add a shortcut to them in Box.com. Google Drive allows you to add a shortcut to public documents. The other workaround is to download a local copy and upload to my Box but then I don't get updates.

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  5. Make Box Tags visible in Box Drive (on Windows)

    We have used Tags extensively to categorise content in Box, it would be great now that we have moved to Box Drive that these are visible against the folders displayed in here too.

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  6. Convert Box Drive File to Box Link when Emailing Copy of File

    We use Box to store company documents, and most people prefer to work with the Box files natively on Windows via Box Drive. The issue is when someone wants to circulate a copy of a file stored on box. The standard practice is to drag a copy of the document from Windows Explorer to an Outlook email. This results in a copy of the document, so future collaborators are not editing the Box document, but rather a copy.

    This is a common feature in most established DMS products, where the user is asked if they want to upload the actual…

    3 votes

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  7. block an upload by external user using Box Drive with smart access

    The current Shield feature only controls downloading, cannot blocks uploading/syncing and is not ransom-proof. The biggest problem is that when external users use BoxDrive and BoxSync, ransomware-infected files are uploaded/synchronized on Box.

    21 votes

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  8. Synchronize changes between Box Edit and Box Drive for Excel

    The file which is referred from external, if we edit , save download and upload, we need to save original Excel from Box Edit. The customer does not want to open Edit only for this.

    For example, there are two excel ExcelA and ExcelB. Excel B is referring the data from ExcelA.

    ExcelA was created via Box Drive and ExcelB was from Box Edit.

    If Excel A was modified, then open ExcelB, but the modification is not reflected to ExcelB.

    2 votes

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  9. Start Box Drive on windows startup instead of user login

    We have a PC that share Box content on our LAN but it's incredible that when the PC restarts Box Drive does not start until a user does login to the pc. For us it mandatory that Box Drive starts on windows startup instead of user login. We tried to schedule the action but Box process fail with an error that windows is not started in interactive mode.

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  10. Retrieve Box shared links along with local paths from Box Drive

    I am interested in retrieving a list containing local file paths and their shared links from Box Drive. This would be useful in scenarios where I am referencing many files through Box Drive (e.g., a mail merge in Microsoft Word which references a unique shared Box link in each email). Currently each shared Box link must be retrieved manually using Box Drive’s right-click context menu.

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  11. Display pop-up notification to let users know that Box Drive is able to be started

    Please display a pop-up notification to let users know that Box Drive is able to be started (or in other words, users are able to open contents).

    We own a lot of content - this makes Box Drive take a long time checking the updated contents and starting up.
    This is causing delays of Box Drive being launched.
    If a notification pops up when Box Drive is ready to start accessing contents, users would not have to check the status of Box Drive so frequently.
    Instead, they could work on other things while waiting for Box Drive to start.

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  12. Visual indicator of "Problem Items" in Box Drive taskbar icon.

    Our users frequently have "Problem Items" or sync errors in Box Drive that they don't know exist. It would be incredible if the "box" icon in the task bar had a (red?) exclamation mark appear when there are persistent sync errors so that a user knows they need to check out the issues and fix them.

    Otherwise they never know there are problems unless they happen to notice a red exclamation mark in the finder/explorer window if they are in the folder with the issue.

    1 vote

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  13. Ability to designate Box Drive Mark for Offline (MFO) by device

    We would like to be able to designate Box Drive Mark-for-Offline (MFO) by device.

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  14. BOX Drive - Block local file/folder creation if user does not have write access

    We do not allow creation of root folder in BOX. Also certain folders are read only for select staff. When using BOX Drive if they try to add content to an area they only have read access, the content is listed and appears to the employee, that they uploaded it to BOX. There is a tiny red dot but to many this is not sufficient to let them know the data is not being protected. Please configure BOX drive to not allow a local creation of content within the local BOX path if they do not have editor rights at…

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  16. Allow copy and paste function between documents in Box drive online to be able to retain the endnotes

    Allow copy and paste function between documents in Box drive online to be able to retain the endnotes that were copied and pasted.

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  17. Auto-open files when downloaded from Outlook to Box Drive

    Currently when one downloads files from Outlook to box drive on one's laptop/desktop, one has to then go to that folder using file explorer (often several clicks or using the quick access menu) to open the file and then editing it. It would be very useful to have an auto open feature once the file is downloaded. Similar features are already available while using say Gmail on the web browser or even downloading a file from WhatsApp's desktop app.

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  18. Direct transfer tool on macOS from connected NAS to Box online, bypassing the local drive cache

    Our scenario is a NAS with 80TB worth of data on it. Mac-only environment.

    I know about the standalone transfer tool available on Windows, but this is no option for our macOS environment.

    Box Shuttle (cloud) is not an option to get this data onto Box, either as it can't connect to our NAS direclty (and it being in offline network segment).

    Uploading in 1 go from the web portal fails miserably.

    Drag'n'drop from NAS to connected Box Drive client fills up disk space beyond capacity.

    Copying files from my NAS to Box Drive requires a tedious, manual process due…

    1 vote

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  19. You are no longer logged in. Box Drive will now quit. Please restart the app and login again.

    cannot log into box. its reports this in the App on my mac. i can log into the web fine. what do i do?

    You are no longer logged in. Box Drive will now quit. Please restart the app and login again.

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  20. Ability to perform file operation through directory command prompt

    File operation by operating by command prompt.
    Is there any way to operate the files and metadatas from the pointed directory?
    As far as I heard from SE, the answer was "no".
    For example, extract all the metadata in each filed from the pointed filename expantion and from the pointed directory by one command.
    It will be great if we could use this Box Drive by operating like linux or command prompt.

    1 vote

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