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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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I am very surprised that the only way to search Box Drive ubfolders seems to be through a browser and returns results from our entire collection of documents. Searching through Windows Explorer is only useful if you know where something is located.
I found this location to submit feedback by way of a product forum thread that is over two years old at this point, but I guess this has been a problem for near three? This is a bit disheartening to see as a new user.