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How to End Collaboration for Many Files

  • May 22, 2025
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I have hundreds of files that coworkers have shared with me through Box and they are all cluttering my top level directory.  How do I end collaboration on many files at one time over the web interface?

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Hi Justin, 

Welcome to the Box Community!

If you wish to end collaboration on folders shared to you by other users, you may follow the steps in this article:

Thanks for your question and participation in the community!


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This only ends collaboration for the specified folder/file...

I would like to highlight many folders and files and end collaboration.  Is that possible?


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Hi I'd like to ask Justin's question again.  Is there a way to end collaboration on multiple files at the same time?  I have individual .jpg files that I would like to get out of my main folder.   Thanks


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Can I ask Justin's question a third time?  It is very tedious when you have many dozens of files that have been shared with you, and you have to end collaboration one by one.


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Hello,

Has there been any progress on the ability to end collaboration for multiple folders/files at one time? Thank you!


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How can we escalate Box Support on this one?  This is a real problem and there hasn't been progress in 2 years.


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Hello, I have the same problem here and wanted to up this. Box team please support and share the solution for the same. 


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I have hundreds of folders that I need to end collaboration. It's impossible to do that one by one. Please help!


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I found a temporary solution that may help someone who are in the same situation as me, but it doesn't solve the problem that was raised by Justin in the first palce. I downloaded Box Drive and I was able to select multiple folders and delete them; those foders were also deleted from Box on web after I deleted them in Box Drive. However, that only worked for folders, not individual documents. Hope this helps!


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Adding my +1 (or +100 to this)..and have upvoted George's pulse entry as well for good measure.


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Same here. Please make this an option!


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This lack of a way to deal with folder permissions in bulk seems to be an issue which prevents Box from being a realistic enterprise solution.

I am in the same situation of needing to update folder permissions on thousands of folders and their contents.

Doing this one at a time for thousands of folders seems like wasteful time-suck.