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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 deal breaker for me. I have been a happy Box/Box Sync customer since 2012, but I recently recommended it for a project I am working on and everyone else was forced to download Box Drive instead of Box Sync. They are repeatedly running into glitches and stupidities in the implementation that I have not experienced with Box Sync, and I was mystified until I realized that Box Drive has far inferior features to Box Sync. If Box continues in this direction with a far inferior product I will need to find an alternative for myself, my business, and the collaborations I engage in.