Jonathan Gordon

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Ok - a bit of a wrap up post from me. Things going pretty well, but have my head around the shortcomings now after a month'ish of use. It all works "pretty well". I've had no data loss concerns, an...

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• Jonathan Gordon
• March 30, 2023 22:54
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I had an almost identical reluctance... I actually held off for a couple of months. But the concerns melted away after using it. I'm a big fan of not messing up performance with background tasks - ...

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• Jonathan Gordon
• March 18, 2023 23:39
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Yep... windows sees box drive as a folder with contents. This is the case even if box drive is in cloud mode... it's just Windows explorer seeing folders and files as a typical windows filepath. T...

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• Jonathan Gordon
• March 18, 2023 02:18
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Lol... even the box drive forum has issues... I clicked "edit", and it added a million spaces at the start... sorry for the weird post above...

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• Jonathan Gordon
• March 17, 2023 23:17
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Oh, and to answer your questions:                                                               Sync speed is fine... it might take a little longer as it's uploading and downloading data (I think.....

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• Jonathan Gordon
• March 17, 2023 23:16
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Hi there - the short answer is yes! I'm going to keep saying this though, as I don't want to encourage use that results in accidental data loss: 1. Back up everything first 2. Do some tests to se...

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• Jonathan Gordon
• March 17, 2023 22:59
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Just an update here... a week or so later, and zero issues using sync folder to sync d drive storage to box drive in cloud mode. Working great.

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• Jonathan Gordon
• March 17, 2023 05:33
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Hi there - it's a "yes, and no" answer(!)... the box cache still exists and operates as normal... that means that while I have e my synced files stored to d drive physically, box still caches data...

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• Jonathan Gordon
• March 11, 2023 01:02
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Hi all - I've read this thread many times as I pulled my hair out over the past 2 years trying to configure box drive to store offline files on another drive. My beastly workstation doesn't need a ...

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• Jonathan Gordon
• March 09, 2023 06:55
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This issue bugs me so much. It's such a terrible oversight and Box support clearly don't care with the lack of responses on this issue across all topics that bring it up.   I MIGHT HAVE A WORK AROU...

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• Jonathan Gordon
• March 09, 2023 06:17
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