Admin and End User forums

My program manager has sent me an invitation to share his folders on BOX. Also an associate has shared some files in another folder for another effort. Last week I was able to get access to the associate's folder however I was not able to get access to my Program manager's. I couldn't set up a second box account based on my email address associated with my PM’s invitation.  I tried using both email addresses my PM associates me with.

Unable to add user that was previously deleted

I recently deleted a license that was used by a former employee and transferred the data associated with them. Why am I not seeing an available license to assign? I would like to move the license that was occupied by the former employee to our new employee. Thank you, Mike

I created a folder and am trying to add someone as a collaborator (editor). When I send the invitation, I immediately get an email message saying that he has accepted the invitation, but he hasn’t. When he tries to log in using the link, it wants him to create a new account and pay for it. What am I doing wrong? Thanks!

When I click on ‘details’ of a file at the bottom under Metadata is says There was an error loading metadata.What does that mean

Hello!I am currently a Free user but am considering upgrading to Personal Pro.If I upgrade, can you confirm that my new 5GB file size limit will apply to collaborators (Free tier) when they upload to folders I own?Additionally, will these uploads count toward my 100GB storage quota instead of theirs?Thank you!

ご担当者様 いつもお世話になっております。 [removed by moderator] のアカウント（管理者）を削除したいですが、管理権限を移管できない、キャンセルもできないです。 僕は [removed by moderator] のアカウント（個人用）を単純に削除、弊社の組織用のアカウントを利用できるようにしたいです。 何卒よろしくお願いいたします。 Gao Yunhe  To Whom It May Concern,Thank you for your continued support.I would like to delete the [removed by moderator] account (administrator), but I’m unable to transfer the admin rights or cancel the process.I simply want to delete my personal [removed by moderator] account so that I can use our company’s organizational account.

After setting up SSO with google workspace, I get this error: 403. That’s an error. Error: app_not_configured_for_userService is not configured for this user. I removed the app on google, but i am unable to remove the sso on box and start over.  it says it needs another cert.  I understand this is for safety, but I am able to login with my admin account without sso straight to box.  can someone help?

I have a user with a name change - How do I do a name change but maintain all authority levels, files and folders connected to her original name?  

Last year there was a functionaliy BoxUtils that was able to generate such report.Is show all names and to which files they have access to and what type of access. This eliminates the need to access folder by folder to see this which is not efficient.Does anyone know how to run such report? thank you

Hi, For one of our employees, he recieved an email stating that his payment method for Box was declined and it came from a [removed by moderator] email address. However, it still seemed like a phishing email, so we looked into it further and it was sent from an AWS IP Address instead of a Box Domain IP address.So I wanted to see if it was possible to talk to somebody from the Box Security Team to see if they could verify this email.

Box will end of life (EOL) Box Sync in December 2026. We will provide customers with twelve months of notice before the EOL.How did Box arrive at this decision?Our intent has always been to offer a single desktop app for accessing and working with Box content. For current Sync users, moving to Box Drive will give them a faster, smarter, and more secure way to bring their cloud content directly to the desktop — without the overhead. Box Drive lets users access the full structure of their Box repository from their desktops, while freeing up local storage, enhancing performance, and adding modern capabilities built for collaboration, compliance and scale.Recently, we announced that Box Drive now has folder redirection available for Windows devices, and the ability to curate their desktop experience via the Hide Unhide files and folders capability, both available starting in

Is the Box website service working properly right now? I can't connect to the webpage.

Hi - I am trying to download some backup copies of many many files and folders, and several of the files have characters in their file names that Box allows but Windows doesn’t. I want to find the files with for example a colon (:) in the file name. Thanks

Hi Everyone,We have a situation where 4 users in our organization were using Box accounts under an Enterprise License, which expired at the beginning of December 2025.Since then, Box has locked these 4 accounts. We can still log in, but we cannot access any data.My vendor has been trying to help by submitting a ticket and sending daily emails to Box Support with the subject line:“Urgent! Box Product Support - Update on Case #3465535”However, we haven’t received any response for about 4 days now.I’m new to Box and wanted to post this here in hopes someone can guide us on:How to reactivate the accounts after the license expired Why it seems so difficult to get timely supportThank you in advance for any help!Nhat Le

We have an older Synology NAS connected to a BOX account. We are trying to use the same BOX account to connect on the newer Synology NAS. The connection keeps timing out when trying to connect to BOX service through Cloud Sync.Does BOX account only allow one connection through CloudSync? 

Hi,We recently created a sandbox environment to perform some tests.  I’m not able to see the Classification tab in the sandbox - even though we have this setup in our Prod environment.  Looks like we need to enable Box Shield but I don’t see the option to do this in the sandbox either. Anyone with knowledge on how to get Classification setup in sandbox for testing? Thanks!

We are currently using box via another software (Blueleaf). Blueleaf is the owner of all of our folders. We’re the editors on all the folders. We are moving away from Blueleaf and would like to upgrade our plan. I tried going through and upgrading the plan outside of the Blueleaf account but I wasn’t able to because my email address is already in use. If we upgrade while logged in, it will keep Blueleaf as the owners on the files. Ideally, we’d like to have our own account so that we can move the folders over. How do we go about doing so?

Hi there, I have a question: how can I reduce the seats?

Is there a way of adding the folder description to all the files inside. Or is there a way of selecting ALL files in a folder to have the same description. I need all my files to have the same description, however I have 100’s.It is taking a long time to copy, paste then click next as they are all large images. Thank you

Hi I would like boxes to autofill with information Box already knows (like signatory name) when using Box sign. Currently I have to type this all in manually before sending for signature. This is a big sticking point for not moving away from another signature service as it really slows us down. I see an article on how to do this in SalesForce but why not within Box?

Seems that every time I find a way that might work, box changes everything. As I understand it, none of this will work: any kind of ftp, webdav, box drive, rclone. I think there are utilities people have created, but none of those work anymore.Also, box.com no longer works as external storage with Nextcloud.Just hopeless? 

I need to change the existing Box SSO SAML IDP Provider. The instructions mention "To make changes to IDP Contact Box User Service". Thank you. 

Can the administrator of a Box account access all the files within the Box Workspace they manage? I am currently considering downloading all the files that exist in the Box Workspace.

There are four licenses in use. One user has actually left the company and deleted them, so I think there are three licenses left. I would like to bring in another user and transfer the licenses. Is this possible? If not, would it be possible to resolve this by releasing one license and adding a new one?