Box app not syncing
AnsweredUsing Box Drive Version 2.38.165 (macOS)
Box is complaining that it isn't able to sync 19 items - most of them are due to 'The file path is invalid on this system'. When I looked further into it, I found that I had a trailing space at the end for most of them. I have fixed that - however, that doesn't seem to do anything.
I've tried using the 'Retry All' button, which clears the list for a couple of minutes. But, the same error comes back.
I've tried logging out and back into Box app.
If it helps, I ended up changing the name of the problematic folder. e.g. from 'Original Name ' to 'New Name'
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Hi Goel,
Welcome to Box Community and glad to help!
Please proceed and reset your Box Drive manually. Here are the steps:
To manually reset Box Drive on a Mac (File Provider Extension mode)
- Quit Box Drive if it is running.
- Download and open the Box Reset Tool zip file.
- Open the Box Reset Tool from the Downloads folder.
- Select Restart and then OK to confirm the restart was successful.
- Open Box from your application folder and log back in.
Note: The Box Reset Tool will write logs of actions performed to your Desktop folder under “Box-ResetTool-logs_(<current day>)”.
If there are any issues with the above process, follow these alternative steps to reset Box Drive.
- Quit Box Drive if it is running.
- Open a Terminal window and run the appropriate command based on your macOS version and Box Drive version:
macOS 11.x and macOS 14.x with any version of Box Drive
fileproviderctl domain remove -A com.box.desktop.boxfileprovider; defaults delete com.box.desktop; rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/Box/Box
macOS 12.x and macOS 13.x with Box Drive version 2.35 and earlier
/Applications/Box.app/Contents/MacOS/fpe/streem --remove-fpe-domain-and-archive-unsynced-content Box ; defaults delete com.box.desktop; rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/Box/Box
macOS 12.x and macOS 13.x with Box Drive 2.36 and newer
/Applications/Box.app/Contents/MacOS/fpe/streem --remove-fpe-domain-and-preserve-unsynced-content Box ; 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)
(macOS 11.x)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.
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~/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box (<current day and time>)
(macOS 12.x and newer)
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- 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
- Restart Box Drive and follow the prompt to log back in.
Hope it helps!
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Thanks Rona, I've successfully reset the Box app, and logged back in.
At this point, I tried to download all my files to be locally available. There was very minimal network activity, and after about a minute or so, I see the following error message, and my files haven't been downloaded:
Couldn’t communicate with a helper application.
Would you be able to help resolve this error?
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An update - after uninstalling the app completely, I'm able to manually download each file individually.
If I download the entire box drive, I get the following error:
The operation couldn’t be completed. No such file or directory
Is there a better/faster way, or do I just have to manually each file manually?
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