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  1. Drive: Search for offline files when disconnected from internet

    56 votes
    9 comments  ·  Help shape the future of Box » Desktop  ·  Admin →
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    on roadmap  ·  AdminAnonymous (Admin, Box) responded

    This capability is available on macOS. For Windows users, we are working on the Box Drive Cloud Files version, which addresses this issue due to its completely different architecture. Please see more details here

    https://community.box.com/admin-forum-25/box-drive-update-we-are-releasing-folder-redirection-and-arm-support-soon-among-other-feature-updates-join-our-private-beta-now-3162?postid=9403#post9403

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  2. Indexing Box Drive Offline Files

    10 votes
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  3. Search for Box Drive content from Explorer/Finder Search

    337 votes
    84 comments  ·  Help shape the future of Box » 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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    The inability for Windows Search to index offline files is a complete show stopper from transitioning from Box Sync. We have a custom application that uses Windows Search SQL to query the index (metadata & content) of locally stored PDF documents.

    If Box Drive is using junction points that prevents Windows Search unable to index these files then the whole application is rendered useless. FWIW we previously tried BoxSearchManager and it's very limited compared to Windows Search and also a *lot* slower making it an impractical replacement.

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