Shared Folders visible on Desktop without Explicit Sync

Hi Narciso, 

Welcome to the Box Community!

Box Drive currently does not offer the feature you asked to selectively choose specific content to sync to your computer. Box Drive will always sync your entire Box folder structure in your computer. 

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What's the point then of having the "sync" "unsync" button? For me it's the same that all folders and docs get synced independent of whether I've activated "sync" (under more actions...) or not.

Regards,

David

Hi David, 

Welcome to the Box Community!

The "Sync/ Unsync" options that you see in the Box Webapp is actually a feature of Box Sync application and not of Box Drive.

With Box Sync, would have to mark the folders that you wish to sync on your computer and the application will download that folder to your device for sync allowing you local access to the content.

To learn more about this feature, please take a look at these articles:

• https://support.box.com/hc/en-us/articles/360043696154-About-Box-Sync
• https://support.box.com/hc/en-us/articles/360044196393-Marking-Content-for-Box-Sync

Thanks for your participation in the forum!

Best,