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Thank you for the suggestion. We currently do not have this planned on our roadmap.
Please keep the feedback & use cases coming to help us prioritize this in the future!
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This feature really is essential. I've always used Box Sync before, because I have large project files that have to be stored offline, and need them on a drive that isn't my C: drive. Until the latest version of Box Drive, this wasn't possible, so I've moved to Box Drive.
However, I'm finding that when Box Drive is uploading or downloading ANYTHING, it hogs drive usage until complete, to the point where anything file related freezes up. I'm on a high spec PC running Windows 11, 32GB DDR4 RAM, Core i9-10900K CPU @3.7GHz. I can edit 4K footage and run resource intensive 3D renders, but Box Drive is still managing to break my PC. File Explorer freezes, File picker won't open, Adobe can't open projects... the list goes on.
I can't sign out or exit Box Drive because then I won't be able to access the files I'm working on. So I just want to pause the sync, so I can work on my projects again. Before I go home tonight, I can start the sync again and leave it syncing overnight.
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I'm on a decent PC with Core i9 10900K 3.70Ghz, with 32GB DDR4 RAM and a 16GB graphics card. I have a 1GbE network adapter and we're on fibre with 800Mbps upload and download rate.
But when Box Drive is syncing files, it still manages to freeze up my entire PC. How is this possible? I have projects to do but because I can't pause the sync, I am sitting here twiddling my thumbs. I can't exit Box Drive because guess what: my projects are stored in box drive and there's no offline access.
Bit ****** at this.
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This is already possible, I currently have my Box Sync synced to my M:\ drive on my windows PC. You need to select the option at install, you can't do this once install has completed.
(Not sure why no one from Box has said this already)
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I started using Box years ago because with Box Sync, I can do exactly this, store everything on a different drive. Nowadays, a lot of other storage options allow you to do this, so I'm using Box for two reasons - it's currently a reasonable price and I've always used it.
I recommend adding this feature to Box Drive - if Box Sync ever gets discontinued, I will be moving because I can't work without having my files synced to a different drive.
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A great example of needing the manual pause, is using NPM. I have a project repo synced to Box that I'm working on, it uses ES Vite and Node modules, so I'm using npm to manage the packages.
However, if I sync a new repo down which doesn't include node_modules (which is normal), I obviously need to install related packages.
I ran npm install on such a repo this morning, situation in Box Drive. It started downloading, Box Drive kicked in and started analysing the files and uploading them, and all of a sudden, NPM slowed to a crawl. It took 3 hours to install 300 packages - I'm on a high spec PC with 800Mbps fibre internet - then I gave up.
I've since moved the github repo onto a local folder and ran the npm install again. All 1435 packages were installed in less then 2 minutes.
If I could have paused syncing, I could have installed into a box folder where it's all backed up, then simply resumed syncing once done. Instead I wasted hours and the eventual solution was not to use Box.