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File Lock Expiry Notification to User

  • May 22, 2025
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It would be helpful if there was a lock expiry notification for a user - e.g. if I edit an Excel file using Box Edit and lock it for 1 hour, after 50 minutes I get a notification that there are only 10 mins remaining of the lock and to save my work.

I have multiple WW users that need to update a file and what tends to happen is that they lock the file indefinitely 'just in case' and then they forget to unlock and it inconveniences a whole bunch of folks. Thx

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Hi Kev, 

Welcome to the Box Community!

We appreciate you sharing your use case here on how this File Lock Expiry Notification would be useful to you.  
 
A similar idea has been shared to our Product team via Box Pulse. You can find the submitted idea here:
You can up-vote and share your experience on any of existing requests shared above via Box Pulse that best matched what you and your organization need.
 
Should any new functionality/ feature come out, we will definitely announce it in Box Product Announcements