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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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This is a feature we would love to get to, but unfortunately it is not on our short term roadmap. Please continue adding your feedback!
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I think this will never be a feature in Windows because the preview handler requires the physical file to be present then asks the relevant application to generate a preview from that file. Box Drive would need to be downloading each file first, and that seems unlikely and slow.
The alternative would be Box making a separate utility that can generate file previews from the files stored on their server, then presenting the user with that preview. It would probably only be available for select file types though, but even previews for just .pdfs, Office files, .txt files etc would be a huge improvement.
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This is a major shortcoming. I rely on this extensively as I'm sure others do, and not having it inherently increases the amount of time it takes to find a given file. Box is not feasible as a replacement for a network server, but that's what we are stuck with.
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I don't understand why it's so difficult to download and host all of the metadata. It should be a nearly instantaneous lookup from the Box servers.
I use Everything search, which essentially does the same thing, indexes file/folder structures, and the size of the database is a little over 100MB for several million files.
I would use Box Sync, but I don't have the local drive space to host the several TB of data.