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The owner of our account has left the organization and I need to remove them and I am not sure how. I am the owner of the firm and co-owner of the folders, but when I deactivated the employee, all the folders on which he was the owner are now inaccessible.

When I login in I am no longer attached to the group I was signed up under. I can’t access files or upload files they need.

Hello,I am the Senior Manager of Data at a small non-profit. We use Box extensively to collect sensitive and personal information from external collaborators. Some of these collaborators have raised concerns about our IT Manager having access to all of the folders we use. We are using a “closed” folder structure where our IT Manager created the top-level folders so the waterfall permissions fall down to the lowest levels.Is there any way our administrator could continue to see the folder structure but not the actual files in the folders?Thank you!

I currently have an unlimited account and share folders with collaborators. One collaborator is trying to upload data to a shared folder but is receiving an error that there is not enough storage space. I don’t understand why they would receive this error given that we both have unlimited BOX accounts. Can you help me determine the cause of this and suggest a way to increase the storage space.

It has long been an annoyance to me that new Box functionality and tools do not include standardised functions such as column sorting and filtering across all parts of the screens.   Instead, they are currently selectively added (if requested/thought of by the developers), or added and displayed in a way that contradicts or is different to similar/same functionality elsewhere. 

When I shared a file recently, Box asked the recipient to sign up for an account to view and edit that file. Is there anyway I can get around this? 

I recently started to run my own consulting, while employed full time. I have been using Box professionally and personally for many years. Now, I want the Business account for my personal account (bc of the features) -  but don’t need three accounts?! Will that ever change?

Just upgraded to paid account and cannot initiate a new signature request. I hadn’t reached my 5 limit before upgrading. 

When I try to sign on with my correct email address of <personal information redacted> I receive the message telling me it is an incorrect email address. I think I must have put in the wrong email address when setting up account. I think i put in <personal information redacted>. How do i correct?

I am trying to make a user a co-admin in our Box sandbox and I am getting an error about Domains for email addresses.  I then tried to add our domain and got an error to contact support.  Please help.  Warm Regards,Jennifer Knights

Do other Box co-admins/companies wish that Box would add new functionality to Box Pulse itself - search result sorting and filtering by time period - to cut throuigh all the 'old tat' for example?

Some of our users are not able to search for a new user. When you add the email, which has same domain as all the other users, there is a message at the bottom that states content being shared with external collaborators. Why this behavior? thanks

Hello,I keep getting an error when trying to add an external email to a hub as an editor… The global setting for external collab restriction is off as is the setting for the hub.I have also tried adding the email to the folder as an editor and then the hub with no luck.

we have the $15 business plan. I am the admin and I have MFA on my account. There doesn’t seem to be an option for my other collaborators to setup MFA on their accounts.Is this is a limitation of the subscription level? Or, is there somewhere that I have to enable it for them.

Hello, We have developed an application for Box, and many clients are using it.  Currently, the owner account of the application is tied to an individual member’s email address.   I would like to transfer the ownership to another account that uses our organization’s email address.  Could you please let me know how I can do this?   Best regards,

I need to send files to people outside of my organization.  How do I do that using BOX.  The notice when I try says that I am unable to send files to certain  Addresses and off site addresses due to security concerns with email addresses even though they are certified email addresses

Hello, dumb question here as I cannot find just a straight simple answer on this.I am the Box Admin for our organization and I have a managed user that needs their 2FA settings reset due to getting new phone. How can I, as an Admin, reset this user’s 2FA settings so that they can re-register upon login?Do they really need to enter a separate with with the official Box Support? Thank you, A Box Admin

Hi, I inadvertently added a misspelled word to the Box note dictionary. How can I remove the misspelled word from the dictionary?Thanks. 

Hi, i am using HP Envy laptop with Google chrome and home based wifi. I have been invited by a paid user to access some folders in the company. When i log into my account i see a blank screen.

Dear all, I am an admin to a business plus account.I was wondering where can we see the activity per person? As a co-owner I would like to see a specific person’s activity on the platform. I can now only see a grouped activity of a folder and without the details of the different collaborators.Secondly, who can exactly see the collaborator’s activity? I have granted a co-owner access to a person outside of the company and she is not able to see the activity or run the reports. Is that correct?Thank you for your help,Ewa

Hi - i am trying to cancel my account and it keeps throwing up the attached error message. Have tried clearing cache, different browsers, etc………. 

how can I see the list of the full universe of folders that I'm own in box and also the people that have access into these folders?I want to avoid to go folder by folder

I uploaded a pdf file and when I try to open it I get this notice. I have adobe reader x or later. Any advice? 

Hello everyone,First time posting to the support forums, and looking forward to joining the community! BackgroundEach of our documents has statuses that we track using Metadata Templates in Box. There are multiple documents per project (module), each with their own Document Status (file-level metadata) and the overall module has its own status as well (folder-level metadata).   IssueThe issue at hand involves the file-level metadata, or in this case the Document Status. A few weeks ago, I noticed that some of our file-level metadata was missing. At first, I thought I had simply forgotten to set the metadata for these particular documents, but then I began to notice a pattern. One of our users prefers editing documents using the desktop version of MS Word.  When this user saves their work on their desktop instance of MS Word, I receive a notification that New items were added to <folder name>. Upon reviewing these documents, I discovered that the file-level metadata (Document Stat

Hi, I’m trying to make myself the owner of several folders. The previous owner has left the company. I am an Admin.Here’s what I tried: Login as the current owner via the Admin portal. I changed myself to the owner, but received the error ‘The new owner’s account does not have enough space for the transfer’, but I have unlimited storage. Under user settings I have confirmed that there is no limit set for users. My account is using 20.9 GB. Could someone please assist? Thanks.