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How to Password Protect Box Drive

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Pam
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I am an individual user (not sharing documents with a work team), working on Windows desktop.  I enjoy the convenience of Box Drive for reliable storage.  However, I would like it to be a bit more secure.  As it stands, anyone who sits down at my computer (or accesses it remotely, in the unlikely but always possible chance of intrusion) could open my Box Drive.  All I'm wanting is that when I try to open Box Drive, to be prompted for a password.  To be clear, I'm not asking about password-protecting individual files or folders, but rather the whole Drive.  I feel like there must be a setting for this that I simply cannot find, or is it just not an option? 
Edit: I didn't entirely make clear what I was hoping for in my original question.  My comment below Hank's further/better explains that I was hoping for the Box Drive app/folder to automatically log me out any time I close it, thereby requiring a password next time it's opened.  But I'm gathering manual log-out is the only option. 

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  • Hank Vare

    You can always log out of Box Drive in the event you step away from your PC, and log back in at your convenience.

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  • Pam
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    I guess that's what I'm going to have to do.  I'm just so used to websites, programs, apps, etc. auto-logging me out either upon closure or after a set period of time, that it will take getting used to reminding myself to manually log out when I'm going to be away.  I keep a shortcut to the Box folder/application on my desktop.  I open and close it when I need it, like anything else.  I wish it would just automatically log me out whenever I close that folder.  Box Drive doesn't even log you out upon shutdown.  I don't leave my desktop on 24/7... I always shutdown in the evenings.  When I log in to my desktop in the morning, I can get right into Drive, no password needed.  

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  • Ian

    This is my main concern with having Box Drive operate like a network drive on my local machine. If there was a physical or remote intrusion of the computer, I would assume they would have full access to network drives if they do not require a login. If I only use the browser based version of Box, I am more secure, as that will always log out after I am finished with Box based on the security settings on my browser.

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