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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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A better way to search files is a very much needed functionality. The in-built solution is far from ideal, in need of a lot of extra love.
You should note at Box that the current suggestion is very different from
https://pulse.box.com/forums/909778-help-shape-the-future-of-box/suggestions/35983096-search-for-box-drive-content-from-explorer-finder
That has to do with searching all your Box Drive content.
Available-offline content, by definition, has a local copy on user's disk, so the read-only indexing process at the user machine should generate no extra traffic nor Box server-side infrastracture burden (if it does then is a bug and need to be addressed).
So ok to forbid Windows or third party indexers run in your whole Box Drive, but please add the exception to let them run in available offline folders.