Box needs to incorporate a search function that would work in Mac finder window. As a designer, I need to relink files often in Indesign, and not having the ability to search for files on the local drive is really an issue. Other cloud file services have this option enabled—Dropbox and Google Drive. Which make them a much better option for designers. Please catch your technology up!

Losing the Windows Explorer search capabilities when switching from Box Sync to Box Drive has been a major issue. It forces us to choose between the two. If there is an intent to sunset Box Sync in lieu of Box Drive, enabling Explorer Search is a must, particularly for Offline Files.

Beyond stupid. We lost days of work since we did not know where files were stored and when searched for them in macOS we could not find them. Thought they were lost but it was only Box that did not allow to find them!

I assume this is also why we see the sharing violation issue popping up quite a lot lately? Excel can't index the box folder and store temporary files properly.

My department is switching back to dropbox. This is just crazy.

Just switched from Box Sync to Box Drive. Now Search does not work. Online web search is lame and I am often offline. I find out it is a design decision. This is pretty near a deal breaker for me. I am going to explore OneDrive now. I bet it works. What a shame for your team.

Breathtakingly silly not so support SPOTLIGHT search. Internet = Search, is it not?
The engineers must see hurdles they cannot overcome.
At least for Offline files I think it's a must.

I just "upgraded" from Box sync to Box drive, but encountered the issues that have been commented on here relating to being unable to use OS native search. Being very dependent on needing to quickly search for and find files using multiple search fields, within specific folders , dates, and other advanced fields, I'll be switching back to sync ASAP. At first I thought it was an issue driven by the OS (Microsoft 10 etc), but shocked to learn it was Box.

We were absolutely bamboozled that native search on the Mac is not supported by Box.
Like…what!?! I have to be connected to the internet just to search even local files???

In addition, the ability to search natively is key when you have an idea of where something is and want search a particular folder. It's also key for browsing a search visually.

Use case:
1. I know an image exists somewhere below a given parent "Images" folder, but I don't know what the name is
2. In Finder I can do a Spotlight search within the parent folder for 'images' that will search all subfolders at that level
3. I can then put the results into icon view, sort by whatever criteria I choose, scale the thumbnails up, put the window into fullscreen view and quickly find the image I'm looking for by scanning them visually.

This is not possible with Box's search, whether via the Box Drive search modal or on the website

It is just ridiculous that this fundamental feature has been made impossible during migration from box drive to box sync. I am really considering to exclude box from my company since this is such a productivity issue!

Make Box Drive Searchable in Windows Explorer

Firstly, removing a key feature in next rev software is not cool! You have had two years to work on this. The above explanation about metadata does not make sense now that we have 'Make Available Offline' option. No reason why Spotlight cannot index them. This is a top10 requested feature and you should be constantly 'Researching'. If not, you are saying you don't care about customers needs. I would definitely not recommend Box to my friends.

Taking this away (vs how it worked in BoxSynch) is causing me hours of work each month for me and others in ,y company. In Synch, we could search on a data term (such as a certain reference number) and would see all files and folders related to that search term. Now, there is absolutely nothing. If I search directly within BOX, I only get Files and Folders, but no documents. This most important aspect of the search was being able to see at a glance which folders, files and documents such as invoices that contained the reference number. What answered questions within seconds is now causing a great deal of manual research via opening individual documents, one by one. Thanks for the horrible enhancement with BOX DRIVE. It is useless.

If you do not want to integrate the system searches and Box Drive search, please implement the following improvements to Box Drive search.

- Open Box Drive search in a window, not in a popup that disappears when I click away.
- Allow me to search within a specific subfolder of Box Drive. Maybe add an item to the context menu in Windows Explorer/Finder?
- Index files for which I have enabled offline access, since they are stored on my local machine.

I can echo the same sentiments shared here. The current Box Drive search is useless. We need a way to search for strings within the files and see previews of those files as Windows search provides. This is a core need for our business to be able to quickly search back through daily reports.

It is quite unpleasant that a so fantastic tool like spotlight does not work with the fox folders when using BOX. Spotlight is simply the best index and search tool. Spotlight not only search over the name of file, or kind of file but also over the content of the file and that helps profoundly when you are searching over files. We miss Box sync.

YES! This is such a frustrating situation. I use Spotlight and Alfred for all my searches. Having to use the Box search feature is a huge headache.

Would love to see this.

Yes, same for PC.

Having to use ctrl+shift+alt+B is a stretcher and functionally doesn't work within file browsers, also it is substantially slower than Listary.

How is this not a feature yet?

Box Drive should supply its file index in to Mac OS X Spotlight so that Spotlight, and other application launchers like Alfred, can access the files.

The search function in the box app is horrible, I tried the box app search and the web search and it did not find the right document (was searching for the content).

PLEASE I BEG YOU, ENABLE SPOTLIGHT SEARCH FOR OFFLINE FILES OR PROVIDE A PROPER SEARCH FUNCTION WITH BOX!!!!