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Uninstalling Box Drive

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Follow the instructions below to uninstall Box Drive

IMPORTANT
Any content in your Box Drive desktop location that has not yet successfully been uploaded to Box is deleted from your machine during the uninstall process. Be certain all of your content is uploaded Box before proceeding.

 

Windows:

  1. Quit Box Drive
  2. Uninstall the application in the Control Panel.

To remove all traces of the Box Drive application from your machine:

  1.  Go to C:\ProgramData\Box and delete the Box subfolder.
  2. Open Registry Editor and delete HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Box\Box.
  3. Go to C:\Users\[USER]\AppData\Local\Box and delete the Box subfolder.
  4. Open Registry Editor and delete HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Box\Box.
  5. If the machine has multiple user accounts, login using each user account and repeat steps 3 and  4.

 

Mac:

  1. Quit Box Drive
  2. Run the uninstaller script:
    • Launch Terminal.
    • Type the following and press Enter: 
      /Library/Application\ Support/Box/uninstall_box_drive
You do not see your password as you enter it. Just press ENTER when have finished typing it in.
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