Kill the Box Sync and Box Sync Monitor processes, if they’re running. Right-click the b icon in the taskbar and choose Quit. What can you do with Box Sync? Let’s take a ride… As of this posting, Box can’t handle symlinks. Let’s say you want Box to sync to a different location. Lots of situations, to be sure, where this default behavior is pathological.
Have an SSD and would like to minimize extraneous writes?.Don’t have enough space in that location?.
In fact, when you install it and log in with your tOSU credentials, it automatically creates that location (if non-existent) and starts syncing there. I can see the appeal for enterprise management, but those aims could have been achieved without making things so obtuse for end-users.īox Sync for Mac wants to put your files in your home folder. In fact, it feels like Box had to go to real lengths to make it so difficult to do something basic like, oh, choose where your synced files live. Ease of customization is not one of them (sync reliability prior to v4.0.something was sketchy, too, but let’s stay focused). TOSU has partnered with the Box cloud storage service.
