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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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An error occurred while saving the comment Anonymous commented
Windows file explorer does not work because files are not local. A lot of my end users depend on a huge volume of simple files searches to perform their duties.
Not only is it more laborious to have to rely on a web portal, the search function in the web portal is slow. It is not as friendly an interface to use as file explorer, especially because there is no way to set "only search within this subfolder" as a default. That's an oversight; users shouldn't be forced to configure EVERY search. The search itself should be seamless.
Box excels at seamless synchronization between multiple users sharing ideas and data. But it lacks this valuable single-user feature. Thank you.
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I would be grateful if the important comments made on files aren't deleted when I move or copy those files.