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  • France

    Hi Ali, 

    Welcome to the Box Community!

    Box Desktop apps currently do not support linux based systems. If you would like to access Box.com from this OS, you can try using a web browser.

    Best,

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  • Natalia Frumkin

    It would be awesome if there was a Box App for Linux. This would help a lot of users.

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  • Ali Ozkaraca

    Currently best solution is having NAS (sync with Box). It is also funny that NASs are linux based.

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  • secretarybaysieshed

    @Ali Does your NAS software have a client for Box? Could you supply some information? - Thanks.

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  • Natalia Frumkin

    I am using DAV, but NAS is not as good as the normal Windows client, because it requires a sync for every action (cd, ls, touch, etc.) 

    see this website for installing: https://www.xmodulo.com/how-to-mount-box-com-cloud-storage-on-linux.html

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  • Ali Ozkaraca
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    @secretarybaysieshed, I have QNAP(NAS) and it has Hybrid Backup Sync App. (not client app), actually it is just cloud sync app(real-time, two way) . But I can use it as network drive easily. There are some limitations about file sizes and symbols in file/folder names(especially mac/apple based folder structure). For now I am happy to use like that. It also doesn't take resources of my humble computer (such as Disk, LAN, RAM, Processor...)

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  • Thomas Beauvais (Thompson)

    This is just not OK. There needs to be a Linux solution for this basic product. This might be a deal breaker.

    They stopped "supporting" WebDAV which was already not an ideal solution, but workable. Now we have nothing as Linux users.

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  • Paul Dann

    And FYI, WebDAV is now completely broken, so access from Linux is browser-only 🙄

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  • Mike Padgett

    This just became a huge problem for us. We'll have to migrate to OneDrive. 

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  • Matthew Dawson

    Well, this is a reason for me to recommend people use Dropbox or literally anything else instead.  Dropbox is decent enough to actually support Linux.  This is really frustrating.

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  • Matthew Dawson

    Well, this is a reason for me to recommend people use Dropbox or literally anything else instead.  Dropbox is decent enough to actually support Linux.  This is really frustrating, especially since the download page says "Download Box Apps on All Devices".

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  • Matthew Dawson

    I bet your own developers, who are likely to use Linux, find it to be frustrating, too!

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  • Troy H

    I would switch from Dropbox to Box if they supported Linux....Dropbox is falling off in quality.

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  • Bernardo Modenesi

    It is the end of 2024 and they don't support Linux, even though big corporations have it for their employees to work, knowing that a sizable number of computer scientists use linux. It's a shame!

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