Admin and End User forums

Hi, I wonder how to share items for only be edited using web client in order to force only online editing.

Is it possible to block IP addresses for accessing our Box environment? I know through Shield we can set up alerts based on IP location, but not a specific IP address (at least to my knowledge). 

We have been on Box for almost 8 years and have around 275TB of data and shuffle around 8.5TB/month. Much of that is legacy data archived on service accounts and files with many versions no longer relevant. Keynote collaboration for example saves hundreds if not thousands of versions of our files as we build decks...but we’re not reverting or looking at hundreds of versions of files that were presented 5 years ago. I’ve written a script to prune out old versions and will leave behind the 3 most recent versions plus 7 additional versions spaced out over the file’s life. In this way, I can find an archive folder with data many years old, provide that to my script, let it search, sort, and remove the excess data no longer needed. Other than reducing extra junk on the platform, will removing unneeded data (most of which is not visible to many users and stored only in service accounts for archival purposes) improve the performance on Box? Specifically navigati

Hi there everyone - one of our ex -team member box account have been the master folder which we save a lot of our work and now his access to box have been blocked as he have left some months back and we did not realise it until we could not access our files today. When we try to reset the password, the password reset did not come through, we are stuck now and support is not responding to our urgent request since a couple of hours back. What can we do?

Is Content Delivery Network (CDN) being used in Box? When I upload any file in any folder in Box, does it get cached all across the world and the user who downloads the file gets it from his/her nearest location (and therefore reduces the latency to a great extent) ? If that is so, it would be great if you can direct me to the right box documentation area / link.

i accidentally disconnected my email connections in my Gmail then when i register again in the same email my all files are gone

When you add or open a file in Box Drive, Box copies the file into the Drive cache folder, which creates a local copy of the file. Box has also confirmed that this cache folder is not encrypted. If you work for an organization that must keep sensitive data off of local machines, what is your work around? We thought using only the Box Online option and restricting Box Drive usage was an option but all files still open locally. The entire purpose of Box is to eliminate the need for sensitive data to be saved on local machines, but because of how the cache folder operates, that is not possible. 

Anyone having problems with the latest update of BOX Mobile? I can’t scroll between photos I just get an eternal loading sign. Often it freezes in one photo and I can’t hit the X button to close out or switch to any other menu. I can acesss the menus but none of the buttons work. I’m at the point I have to close Box Mobile and reopen it every single time I want to switch to a new document. It that just my device or is this happening  elsewhere? Trying to decide whether to submit a ticket.

I added a new user and they aren”t getting the activation email. Have tried multiple times.

All of the Word and PDF documents that I have in my various Box folders are blacked-out when I try to view them.  What can I do to fix this problem?  Thanks for any suggestions! Mike

Managed Users email address no longer a valid email address.  Tried to update but input new email incorreclty and it is still waitng for verification.   Went  to edit with correct email address and receive a  message stating that an account already exists for that email.  How do I fix the primary email address?

We keep having problems with users using Box Drive on Windows who forget what folders they are allowed to save files to.  E.g. they  edit a file in, or save a file to, a folder that they only have viewer access to.  The file IS saved, and Box does flag an error, but most users don’t understand the error and/or ignore it.  The file is resident on the local disk of that user but it is not uploaded to the Box cloud, not available to others, etc.It would be helpful if the write permission to such a folder was denied, i.e. if the user were to get an error on the save that said “you can’t write here”, then they’d be aware of the error and could go and save their file wherever it is that they are supposed to be putting it.  Is there any way to do this using the permissions in Box Drive?  Question for both Windows or MAC.  Thank you for any suggestions!

Hi!  We’ve been having upload failures for the past 7+ days.   The Box support team has confirmed that the Box Engineering team has identified that the problems are caused by recent changes made by Box.  I’m sure they are working diligently to fix the problem, but am wondering if anyone in the community has identified any workarounds.  Thanks for any ideas . . .

When I tried using it with a shared link,When I try to download a file, a pop-up like the one below appears.People can download without signing up or logging in.If this is displayed when sending to an external business partnerSome of you may be worried, "Do I need an account to download?"Please tell me how to eliminate this display. 

I have a question regarding access restrictions in Box. We would like to control the devices used by external collaborators. Is it possible to configure the restriction for both general PCs and thin clients?Thank you in advance for your support.

I am sending in my PC for repair. How do I stop syncing and remove the Box folders without losing the data.

My company is a Japanese company based in Japan.Can we use Box Sign for e-signing NDA and an outsourced contract with an engineer who is based in the UK?

Hi! I am trying to see if it’s possible in the desktop version of Excel when saving back to Box, to tag their my team via the Microsoft directory in specific cells. Unfortunately Box doesn’t allow me to do this. Is there a workaround? TYIA!

I am saving documents from ShareFile to Box.com. I need to double check that the migration is catching everything. To that end, I want to check the file count for every folder. I don’t see that option in Box. Very frustrating. Any tips appreciated.

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Hi all!  Is there a way for a Box folder to sync with our Google groups? We heavily use email groups at our organization. When we add members to a Google group, it would be helpful to automatically add them to a box folder, but I don't know if this is possible.  Has anyone accomplished this before?