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Directory to Box drive is an empty symlink

  • May 22, 2025
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Hello,

Some of our customers use Box to store our application data. The Boost C++ Filesystem library that we use to work with file paths fails when working with C:\Users\<user>\Box. This symlink appears to point to an empty path:
https://github.com/boostorg/filesystem/issues/187

The issue doesn’t reproduce with other cloud storage solutions.

Please see if you can make Boost work with Box file paths.

Thanks!

 

 

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    Hi Daria, 

    Welcome to the Box Community!

    Have you checked out this support article on "Configuring the Default Box Drive Folder Location": https://support.box.com/hc/en-us/articles/360043697454-Configuring-the-Default-Box-Drive-Folder-Location 

    This may be relevant to your problem with the next steps!
     
    If this did not help, do you mind providing more information or even share a screenshot? This will help out other members of the community to answer your question. 
     
    Best,
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    Hi France,

    Thanks for your advice, I've tried and this doesn't help to resolve the issue.

    I'm ready to provide more information or even to make a call to demonstrate the issue.

    Regards,

    Daria

     

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    Hi, this is an issue for me as well (using OpenSCAD which apparently uses the boost library).

    Any progress on a resolution?

    Here is a screenshot of the error:

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