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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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The day Box Sync will no longer work will be the day I cancel the box.com account. Using Box Drive is a no-go without support for Spotlight. With Box Drive I'd be choosing to mark for offline access most of the Box.com content except for videos. As the actual files are local to my Mac I'd expect them to be returned in the spotlight results. Not doing so for the files that are actually stored locally is plain dumb. There's no technical excuse for not indexing them.
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Please help us understand the use case more, as the ability to apply retention is typically not extended to end users.
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I'm not sure why nobody from Box mentions this, but.... if you're using Box Drive, for any folder that you mark as "Make available offline", those contents *will* be indexed by Spotlight. So if you're migrating from Box Sync (which causes your files to be local anyhow), just migrate to Box Drive and make those same folders be available offline. They will be indexed by Spotlight as before.