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  1. File Explorer Search Capabilities on Box Drive

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    2 comments  ·  Help shape the future of Box » Box Drive  ·  Admin →
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    Anonymous commented  · 

    Box Sync previously allowed searching via File Explorer. It also retained the ability to view recently viewed documents in File Explorer. These features are not available with Box Drive. Could you please consider adding this to your planned roadmap?

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  2. Cannot use Microsoft explorer search function for Box Drive

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    Anonymous commented  · 

    Box Sync previously allowed searching via File Explorer. It also retained the ability to view recently viewed documents in File Explorer. These features are not available with Box Drive. Could you please consider adding this to your planned roadmap?

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

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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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    Anonymous commented  · 

    Box Sync previously allowed searching via File Explorer. It also retained the ability to view recently viewed documents in File Explorer. These features are not available with Box Drive. Could you please consider adding this to your planned roadmap?

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  4. Leverage search capabilities in Box for Box Drive

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    not planned  ·  AdminAkshay Ravi (Admin, Box) responded

    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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    Anonymous commented  · 

    Box Sync previously allowed searching via File Explorer. It also retained the ability to view recently viewed documents in File Explorer. These features are not available with Box Drive. Could you please consider adding this to your planned roadmap?

    Anonymous supported this idea  · 

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