Jason Gish
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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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Jason Gish
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We will likely consider bookmark support in the future for Box Drive, but it’s not planned in the near-term.
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I have the same issue. It doesn't seem too complicated to sync shortcuts, and it would be of great benefit to some of us. Please consider enabling this as a new feature.
Jason Gish
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If I am working on one computer and I use shortcuts, I do not have to copy and paste files and take up unnecessary space. BUt when I use shortcuts, and am working on another computer that has the same synced folder as the folder with the shortcuts, I do not see the shortcuts.
The expectation when working with Box sync is that the user will see the same thing in the Box folder regardless of on what system that Box folder resides. This issue with shortcuts isn't consistent with that expectation. And I have found myself recently being in a tough position because I want to at least know what shortcuts were in the folder but there is no way to tell other than getting in my car, driving to the office and looking. Not a good solution.