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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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Taking this away (vs how it worked in BoxSynch) is causing me hours of work each month for me and others in ,y company. In Synch, we could search on a data term (such as a certain reference number) and would see all files and folders related to that search term. Now, there is absolutely nothing. If I search directly within BOX, I only get Files and Folders, but no documents. This most important aspect of the search was being able to see at a glance which folders, files and documents such as invoices that contained the reference number. What answered questions within seconds is now causing a great deal of manual research via opening individual documents, one by one. Thanks for the horrible enhancement with BOX DRIVE. It is useless.