Lost Access To Box Drive
AnsweredDear Support,
I have been using Box drive on my Mac quite happily for several months. Suddenly today, I lost access to the drive feature (but not the browser based version). I tired re-installing Box Drive, but got an error message that I had installed an older version of drive on top of a newer version.
Please help.
Daniel
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Hi Daniel,
Welcome to Box Community and glad to help!
To fix this issue, you may completely uninstall Box Drive:
- Quit Box Drive
- Open a Terminal window and run the following command:
fileproviderctl domain remove -A com.box.desktop.boxfileprovider; defaults delete com.box.desktop; rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/Box/Box
This command will:
- Archive all files that are not synced (not uploaded to Box) from "~/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box" and move it to a new folder at "~/Box-Box (Archive)
Note
If you already have a "~/Box-Box (Archive)" folder from a previous manual reset, the folder will be named "~/Box-Box (Archive) 2", or if that name is already taken, "~/Box-Box (Archive) 3", and so on.
- Exclude from the above archive files that are “up-to-date” or synced on Box
- Re-create the parent hierarchy of the archived files
- Archive all files that are not synced (not uploaded to Box) from "~/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box" and move it to a new folder at "~/Box-Box (Archive)
- While still in the Terminal window, now run the uninstaller script:
- Type the following and press Enter:
/Library/Application\ Support/Box/uninstall_box_drive
- Type the following and press Enter:
And as soon as you're done, please reinstall Box Drive.
Hope it works!
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