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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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Firstly, removing a key feature in next rev software is not cool! You have had two years to work on this. The above explanation about metadata does not make sense now that we have 'Make Available Offline' option. No reason why Spotlight cannot index them. This is a top10 requested feature and you should be constantly 'Researching'. If not, you are saying you don't care about customers needs. I would definitely not recommend Box to my friends.
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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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The use case is simple and universal. A document or folder may be relevant to more than one topic hence there is a need to provide a link so there is one source of truth instead of duplicating and thus 'branching' the document(s). Lack of visibility in Drive breaks this connectivity and causes confusion.
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The Box for Office integration is not available on Mac due to technical limitations, but we do already support a native Mac Outlook integration with Box: https://community.box.com/t5/Box-for-Outlook/Installing-Enabling-and-Disabling-Box-for-Outlook/ta-p/66374
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Microsoft OneDrive has a simple option 'Turn On Files On Demand' so the user can determine if they want caching or syncing. On the search results being inconsistent, how does Microsoft handle it? It seems like your decision to not download metadata is due to limitations in your design rather than what the user wants. This is a major miss in your design and should be rectified.