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I have been using my 50GB Free for Life developer account for many years now, and I am using ~28GB of it, but when I attempt to upload more files it says I am over my storage allowance for the account. Most of the admin screens show the correct usage vs max allowed, but one of the settings screens says I am using 28gb out of 25GB allowed.  How do I fix this discrepancy?

We are using the free version of Box which includes 100BG of storage.  We reached the limit a while ago and have been getting rid of old files over the last 2 months or so.  I'm still getting a message that we are out of storage but the admin console window show us only using about 35GB of storage.  I just got the message again when trying to upload a file.  We are just a small non-profit using the free version and can't afford to pay at this point.  Please help!  Thank you!

I paid for Box Business Plus to use Custom Terms of Service, but Box has not provided a working path to enable it. Custom Terms of Service support articles say it requires Box-side enablement. It is not visible in my Admin Console. A Box Community answer says this feature must be enabled through a Customer Success Manager via Sales. I contacted Sales. The chat rep first said they were in a meeting and could not help right away, then later said this was a Support issue and directed me to [removed by moderator] . I contacted Support. Support replied that Box does not provide direct technical support to Individual plan users and recommended upgrading. I have already paid for Business Plus. I am paying for a business plan without a working way to activate the feature I bought it for.Please do one of the following: Enable Custom Terms of Service on my Business Plus account; or Confirm Box will not enable it and refund the subscription.

I have a shared account for business between artist & manager, we mostly store short video files on box for social media content ease of access. Please tell me why none of my files will load on the web app, just eternal pinwheeling and nothing happening when I click download. So I’m like ok, let me troubleshoot. It tells me to fix this, download the desktop app for mac. I download the app, go to log in, and I’m stuck in a log in loop, where I click to log in in the browser, successfully log in, and then get taken back to the app log in page again anyway.  Try this a couple times, realise I’m not insane and this doesn’t work either, back to troubleshoot. The solution: use the web app. Am I crazy? Do most people just not simultaneously experience both of these issues? I only even downloaded the desktop app in the first place because the web version wasn’t working. Ad on searching, I see countless people having both of these issues with no resolution from Box. Absolutely shockingly ba

I paid a starter plan for the year for 3 seats. Box would not let me add 2 more without paying more. How do I contact someone able to support? 

Is anyone here unable to copy text in PDF files after clicking and using the ‘zoom in/out’ or ‘toggle thumbnail’ feature? After refreshing the page (F5), I can copy the text again, but I work with a large number of files, so having to refresh every single file is very time-consuming. I’ve been experiencing this issue since the beginning of this week, while everything was working normally in previous weeks.

Hello - my coworker has tried to switch himself as the main admin to me. I want to add Box AI and Box Extract so that we can automate more of our processes. Can someone just change the enterprise admin for us so I can manage that? 

HiWe are not a box user but one of our clients is and has repeatedly tried to share via box. I have checked the server logs and the email is never received by our exchange server.To troubleshoot the issue I created a box account and tried to send and no message received, I then tried an alias which uses a different domain and that email was delivered. My only conclusion is the our domain [removed by moderator] is on a suppressions list with no ability to remove it.I tried emailing box support but due to it being a free account it is the lowest priority while an box customer is unable to work with us.Is there a way to resolve this issue quickly or a contact number I can call

I try to set up an account via a Google account. Then I tried to set up 2-step verification, but Box did not send any email. So I think there is a problem. So I deleted the account and registered again.When I register again (individual) using my work email (a different email, not the one I am using to submit this question). A message said, "Email address is not valid."Also, do we have a Box support email? I would like to send an email, but I cannot find one.

I have a question if there are any restrictions on adding or deleting Managed Users. I understand that Managed Users can be added from "+Users" under "Users and Groups" in the Admin Console. And I also understand that Managed Users can be deleted from "..." for each user name under "Users and Groups" in the Admin Console.   Is there a limit to the minimum number of days or hours a user account added as a Managed User must be used? Because I would like to know how long the user who I originally wanted to use would have to wait if I mistakenly added them to the Managed Users.   Also, if the number of licenses we have is 5 seats and the user accounts of the Managed Users are also 5, can we delete one of the Managed Users and then immediately add one new user? If we know that the organization has one retiree and one new hire, we assume that they will be replaced within the licenses that the organization has, but we want to know how long it will take to delete this retiree's user account an

We have not been able to access our folders since May 8th. Please help.  

My personal Box account appears to have been associated with an organization I do not work for and there is no way for me to undo or disassociate it?

There are 3 users in our company and none of have deleted any files or folders. When I clicked on a client folder, all files showed up and then within 5 seconds, they all disappeared. This happened with multiple folders and now our entire main folder with all client files has disappeared as well. When we look in the trash folders, there are no files/folders for us to restore. It’s like everything has just disappeared and we need our client files. It is IMPERATIVE for our business to run. Your support staff hasn’t gotten back to me after the ticket I put in a couple hours ago. This is an emergency.

Hello,  I would like to retrieve a more recent version of a file that was not saved. Is there any way to do that? There is no cache file on the computer, and nothing in the BOX trash. 

Hi,I deleted couple of large folders (about 10 gb), which were moved to trash. When I am trying to delete the folders from trash it is giving me the error “We could not perform this action because the designated folder is locked by another operation.”. It has been almost 1 hour since the folders were deleted to trash. What is the resolution for this? 

Can you let me know how to reset the 2 FA from the account. The Authenticator application is not reachable for me after change the mobile phone. Kindly help to find the solution. I have tried to call box customer care and not getting to communicate with agent and not yet resolved.

My e-mail address for the account which I could not login to is <removed personal information>Since this account has 2 step verification, once I put my e-mail address and password, login code will be sending to the SMS in old phone which I can not access.Please kindly reset the 2 step verification for the account <removed personal information>

I have made a new registry entry to be prompted to lock a file when opening in Box Drive. Per this support page:https://support.box.com/hc/en-us/articles/ [removed by moderator] -Enabling-Enhanced-Lock-Unlock-on-Box-Drive-Windows-Only The behavior is not working. Re-boot makes no difference. Does one need to be a Box Admin for this function to work? I tried a separate registry entry for default Box folder and that does not work either. I am the administrator on my Windows machine, so it is nothing to do with that I do not think.Any suggestions?

I've written apex code that customizes the folder structure on box and of course, in order to deploy it I need to write test methods. Writing standard methods I receive the errors that no root folder is set up so I mocked up data and put the custom settings for the root folder in my test method. However I still get the "Most recent error: Unable to create folder for Salesforce record because the root folder was not found/created." Can someone please help to point into the right direction? Is there maybe a mock version of the toolkit that I should be using in the tests? What is the standard approach here? I have not found any docs. Any help is very much appreciated! (For more details, please have a look here) Many thanks!

see the pic latest uploads contain no nfo no download links support nothing ….   

When i upgrade my plan from invidual to the Starter plan, it has error as above 要求の処理中にエラーが発生しました。お客様のアカウントでさらに認証が必要です。support.box.comでチケットを送信してください。("An error occurred during the request processing. Further authentication is required for your account. Please submit a ticket at support.box.com.")

I am trying to set up a new user, and they aren’t receiving their Box invitation. To reinforce what everyone else is saying, is this really the only place to submit a ticket? Theres no formal process? This is what the “Support page” shows that other Box employees have referred to and references in past posts. No option to submit a ticket, just a link to the forums.  Please open a ticket for this and assist. Thank you.

This just started a couple of weeks ago, and I have reproduced it in a couple of different computers (MacOS and Windows, both in Chrome). When I create a new folder and try to drag and drop a file to it, instead of the file uploading, it immediately acts as if it’s a download, and instead of uploading the file or files, it/they gets copied to my Downloads folder. This doesn’t happen if there’s already a file in that directory. It only happens if the directory I’m trying to upload to is empty. If I select a group of files locally and drag them into an empty folder to upload, every one of them just gets directly copied to my downloads folder as if I were trying to download them. I can upload if I click the “upload” button, but old habits die hard and I’m constantly clearing duplicates out of my downloads because of this bug. I’ve cleared my cache. No luck. Is it just me? What’s up? 

When Box is running, Windows 11 Explorer doesn't refresh icons. I have to constantly press F5 to refresh the desktop and folders. Do you have a solution for this problem? When I shut Box down, the problem disappears.

We have a user that has been unable to access a specific folder within Box Drive. The folder is visible but has not updated for months and shows old files within it.Online access is not a problem and other users are not experiencing the same issue. Any suggestions on how to fix are appreciated.