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Mapping Box Location to Windows Explorer

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Altijani Hussin

Hello - 

 

I am trying to find a way to map the Box location in my favorite and quick access folder in my Windows Explorer. The objective is to save new documents that I am creating directly on box, instead of saving them locally and then upload to box. 

Is there a way to do that?

Thank you.

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    France

    Hi Altijani, 

    Welcome to the Box Community!

    Unfortunately, this is something that's not supported in Box at the moment.

    If this is something you would like to be able to do, I would highly recommend submitting this feature request at pulse.box.com! Our product managers review these requests and take them into consideration for future product development.

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  • Chris Spurrell

    It used to be supported - I was using this until last week when I had a permission problem at work and IT support had to re-grant me access to Box. Now it has gone away. Was here looking for how to reinstate.

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  • Steve & Marilyn Payne

    I just tried to go do pulse.box.com to see if this suggestion is there.  It was *impossible*!  I cannot find anything there.  Furthermore, it seems impossible to me that it's not there, so I don't trust the searching.  I have to "guess" the right sub-topic first!  What the?  This is appalling that this basic feature of virtually every other cloud service isn't available. 

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  • Richard Knechtel

    There is a work around. You can mount your Box junction to a drive letter.
    I did this and it works! It allowed me to have a drive letter mounted to Directory Opus that had my Box Drive contents.

    Open a DOS Prompt and run:

    subst [DRIVE LETTER]: C:\Users\[USERNAME]\Box

    Example:
    subst E: C:\Users\jsmith\Box

    You will then have a Drive Letter mapped to your Box Drive

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  • Mark Roduner

    Better yet: use substitutions with subst;

    ex: subst B: %USERPROFILE%\Box 

    That way you can put into your network wide login scripts

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  • Duc Cao

    Is Box still not supporting this? Only issue with the examples above is that it shows a disconnected network drive and some apps(Microsoft Access) will not see it as valid.

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