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#SYNC FOLDERS OSX FOR MAC#
#SYNC FOLDERS OSX INSTALL#
#SYNC FOLDERS OSX WINDOWS#

Similar to the Mac, you have to set a custom configuration prior to installing/running Box Sync.īut wait, there’s more! The registry location is under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, which is a computer-specific, rather than user-specific, location.

#SYNC FOLDERS OSX WINDOWS#

Note that, if you’re on the Windows side, you apparently have to make registry edits to set a custom location. plist file, maybe trash the folders above, and restart Box Sync. Incidentally, it’s hard to believe that this is really the only possible method - with all the Box processes stopped, you should be able to create the.

#SYNC FOLDERS OSX FOR MAC#

Now, download the latest Box Sync for Mac from. Make sure you’re saving the file as plain text, and that your editor doesn’t paste on an extension like ‘.txt’ - the filename must be exact. Save the file in /Library/Preferences/, (note that this is the Library folder at the root of your boot hard drive, not the Library folder in your user profile), naming it . … except you’re going to specify your custom location in place of /Volumes/Drive1/syncme/. Open a text editor - I’m partial to TextWrangler on the Mac - and paste this: Searching for it via Spotlight is expedient enough. Was Box Edit running? You’ll want to delete that, too. ~/Box Sync/ (remember, this won’t exist if you’ve renamed it or deleted it as suggested above) To pull updates for all workspaces, right click on the OneLake root folder and select Sync from OneLake.

This action refreshes the view for any folders that were previously synced. ~/Library/Application Support/Box/Box Sync/ To pull these updates, you need to right click on the workspace name, item name, folder name or file in OneLake file explorer and select Sync from OneLake. Rename your Box Sync folder (to any other name), or delete it if you’re 1000% confident those files are safe somewhere else. Kill the Box Sync and Box Sync Monitor processes, if they’re running. Right-click the b icon in the taskbar and choose Quit. What can you do with Box Sync? Let’s take a ride… As of this posting, Box can’t handle symlinks.

With other cloud services you could create a symlink.

With many other cloud sync clients, you can set a custom location in the program’s Preferences.

Let’s say you want Box to sync to a different location. Lots of situations, to be sure, where this default behavior is pathological.

Have an SSD and would like to minimize extraneous writes?.

Don’t have enough space in that location?.

#SYNC FOLDERS OSX INSTALL#

In fact, when you install it and log in with your tOSU credentials, it automatically creates that location (if non-existent) and starts syncing there. I can see the appeal for enterprise management, but those aims could have been achieved without making things so obtuse for end-users.īox Sync for Mac wants to put your files in your home folder. In fact, it feels like Box had to go to real lengths to make it so difficult to do something basic like, oh, choose where your synced files live. Ease of customization is not one of them (sync reliability prior to v4.0.something was sketchy, too, but let’s stay focused). TOSU has partnered with the Box cloud storage service.