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#BOX SYNC VS BOX DRIVE HOW TO#
#BOX SYNC VS BOX DRIVE OFFLINE#
#BOX SYNC VS BOX DRIVE DOWNLOAD#

Step 1: Check that all your files are synced to box NOTE: Make sure all of your files have been synced to Box. If you already have been using Box Sync, you will want to follow the steps below to switch to Box Drive. When you get back online, Box Drive automatically uploads your file changes.

#BOX SYNC VS BOX DRIVE OFFLINE#

Box offers an offline feature that allows you to work on your Box Drive files without even being connected to the Internet.

It ensures all of your content is up-to-date, saving all changes you make to your files.

Box Drive is very easy to use and you have access to all of the content you have stored in Box from your desktop.

Box Drive synchronizes the versions as soon as you go back online. Box Drive also supports making files available offline, so you can work on them while disconnected from the Internet. This allows you to access all the files on box through your desktop Box folder.

Obviously, you have to go through now and ‘Mark Offline’ any folders that I want to keep permanently syncing to that device.Box Drive brings your entire Box folder tree to your desktop. Now, I can use all of my legacy Box Sync links with Box Drive, and they will all correctly redirect to the new Box Drive location.

Finally, I made the symbolic link like this:.

– make a symlink to the new folder.New location in Registry: My next plan to work around this limitation was: It resulted in a folder structure like:Į:\BOX\Box Sync\Box\ contentfoldersAnnoying! So you can’t actually rename the \Box\ piece of that folder structure…

Unfortunately, this did not have the desired effect.

Restart Box Drive after setting the CustomBoxLocation Registry key shown below:.

#BOX SYNC VS BOX DRIVE HOW TO#

There are some notes here on how to do change the Box Drive folder location. By default it was pointing to a user location, that is C:\Users\lukes\Box\. Following this step, I wanted to move the Box Drive to the same absolute folder location I had previous, which was E:\BOX\Box Sync\ contentfolders.– upon reboot, the Box Sync uninstall script thinks that it got the job done, even though I helped it along – rename the existing Box Sync folder to “Box Sync.old” Even after a long time ‘restoring disk space’ did not complete… The uninstall picked up automatically after the restart. I received this annoying warning a few times:Īs it kept failing, I did have to restart my computer. You will have to make sure any files in Box Sync are closed. After you login, you will be prompted to uninstall Box Sync.A mini-install will run, and then you will be prompted to login.Having a very established Box Sync workflow, that included ‘absolute file pathing’ between team members, it was a bit scary to make the switch to Box Drive. This means that there is no web-based control for ‘Sync Folder’ or similar, the setting is basically on the client device.

#BOX SYNC VS BOX DRIVE DOWNLOAD#

Another key difference is that Box Drive will always show you all of your files and folders, and it will download them on-demand (unless set to keep offline). On the other hand, Box Drive uses a 25 gb transparent cache, and you can still mark certain folders to keep them offline. Box Sync actually struggles to scan through the entire folder structure – so much so that it sometimes never quite catches up in a 24 hour period. I was syncing over 1 tb of data across many thousands of project files, so I could see the advantage of a more ‘on demand’ system.

Recently, Box has been pushing people away from Box Sync and into Box Drive. It is an incredibly robust file sharing tool and it has rarely let me down even though we have used it extensively on many large BIM and VDC projects.