You installed an older version of Box Drive on top of a newer version.
AnsweredHello, I am receiving the following message on a MacBook Pro M2 Max running Sonoma 14.6.1. I tried deleting the application and reinstalling and the message persists.
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Hi Jonathan,
Welcome to Box Community and glad to assist!
Please try to manually reset your Box Drive application, you can follow the steps below.
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
3. 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
4. Restart Box Drive and follow the prompt to log back in.
Hope it helps!
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